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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 Study Report for the Territorial Division of Catalonia (Catalan: Ponència d'Estudi de la Divisió Territorial de Catalunya) was created by a decree in October 1931. In November 1931, a questionnaire was addressed to all municipal councils consolidating the first instance of the division of Catalonia into counties and vegueries.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Flag map of Catalonia. ... Municipalities of Catalonia (947) Capital of Catalonia: Barcelona – also the largest city; List of metropolitan areas in Catalonia.
Since September 3, 2012, 197 Catalan municipalities and five Comarcal councils have declared themselves Free Catalan Territory, representing approximately 20.2% of whole Catalonia's lands. [citation needed] Map of Catalan municipalities (dark blue) and comarques (light blue) that have so far declared themselves Free Catalan Territory.
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