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Website. https://madrid.es. Madrid (/ məˈdrɪd / ⓘ mə-DRID; Spanish: [maˈðɾið] ⓘ) [n. 1] is the capital and most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.4 million [10] inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and its monocentric ...
Community of Madrid. The Community of Madrid (Spanish: Comunidad de Madrid [komuniˈðað ðe maˈðɾið] ⓘ) is one of the seventeen autonomous communities of Spain. It is located in the centre of the Iberian Peninsula, and of the Central Plateau (Meseta Central). Its capital and largest municipality is the City of Madrid, which is also the ...
Districts of Madrid. Madrid, the capital of Spain, is divided into 21 districts, which are further subdivided into 131 administrative wards. Additional neighborhoods exist outside the boundaries of administrative borders. Each district is governed by a body named Junta Municipal de Distrito. Residents of Madrid are typically called Madrileños.
A province in Spain [note 1] is a territorial division defined as a collection of municipalities. [1] [2] [3] The current provinces of Spain correspond by and large to the provinces created under the purview of the 1833 territorial re-organization of Spain, with a similar predecessor from 1822 (during the Trienio Liberal) and an earlier precedent in the 1810 Napoleonic division of Spain into ...
Geographical map of Spain Map of Spain (Instituto Geográfico Nacional, 2000) Map of Spain and Portugal, Corrected and Augmented from the Map Published by D. Tomas Lopez, 1810. Spain is a country located in southwestern Europe occupying most (about 82 percent) of the Iberian Peninsula.
Plaza de España (Spanish for 'Spain Square') is a large square and popular tourist destination located in central Madrid, Spain at the western end of the Gran Vía. It features a monument to Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and is adjacent to two of Madrid's most prominent skyscrapers. Additionally, the Palacio Real (Royal Palace) is only a short ...
Topographic map of Spain (excluding Canary Islands) At 505,992 km 2 (195,365 sq mi), Spain is the world's fifty-first largest country and Europe's fourth largest country . It is some 47,000 km 2 (18,000 sq mi) smaller than France.
Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (IATA: MAD, ICAO: LEMD) is the main international airport serving Madrid, the capital city of Spain. At 3,050 ha (7,500 acres; 30.5 km 2) in area, it is the second-largest airport in Europe by physical size behind Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport. [5][6] In 2019, 61.8 million passengers travelled through ...