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Catalonia, with its municipalities, comarques, and provinces Population map of Catalonia by municipality. Catalonia is (as of 2018) divided into 947 municipalities.. Each municipality typically represents one significant urban settlement, of any size from village to city, with its surrounding land.
The sizeable increase of the population was due to the demographic boom in Spain during the 1960s and early 1970s [170] as well as in consequence of large-scale internal migration from the rural economically weak regions to its more prospering industrial cities. In Catalonia, that wave of internal migration arrived from several regions of Spain ...
Tossa de Mar (Catalan: [ˈtosə ðə ˈmaɾ]; Spanish: Tosa de Mar) is a municipality in Catalonia, Spain, located on the coastal Costa Brava, about 100 kilometres north of Barcelona and 100 kilometres south of the French border.
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 ...
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Barcelona (/ ˌ b ɑːr s ə ˈ l oʊ n ə / ⓘ BAR-sə-LOH-nə; Catalan: [bəɾsəˈlonə] ⓘ; Spanish: [baɾθeˈlona] ⓘ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain.It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain.
Haute-Cerdagne (Catalan: Alta Cerdanya) is geographically distinct from the rest of Northern Catalonia, lying to the south of the Pyrenean watershed in the upper valley of the Segre. It is a mountainous and sparsely-populated district, and includes the town of Llívia (pop. 1252 (2005)) which is an exclave of Spain.
The comarques of Catalonia (singular comarca, Eastern Catalan:, Western Catalan:), often referred to in English as counties, [1] [2] [3] [a] are an administrative division of Catalonia. Each comarca comprises a number of municipalities , roughly equivalent to a county in the United States.