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  guó jiā gài kuàng
     guó míng bān (Spain, Espana)
  
     zhòng yào jié guó qìng jié: 10 yuè 12 xiàn : 12 yuè 6
  
     shǒu (Madrid), rén kǒu 310 wàn( 2004 nián)。
  
     miàn : 505,925 píng fāng gōng
  
   rén kǒu: 4411 wàn( 2005 nián)。 zhù yào shì rén bān rén), shǎo shù mín yòu jiā tài luó rén( 681 wàn)、 jiā rén( 275 wàn rén( 212 wàn)。
  
     zōng jiào: 96 de mín xìn fèng tiān zhù jiào
  
     yán bān shì guān fāng yán quán guó tōng yòng yánshǎo shù mín yán zài běn wéi guān fāng yán
  
     guó jiā zhìjūn zhù xiàn zhì
  
     guó huāshí liú huā
  
     guó shí bǎo shí
  
     huò ōu yuán ( jiù huò sài )
  
     shí chā běi jīng shí jiān wǎn 7 xiǎo shíxià lìng shí jiān 6 xiǎo shí
  
     bān guó chéng cháng fāng xíngcháng kuān zhī wéi 3 2。 miàn yóu sān píng xíng de héng cháng fāng xíng chéngshàng xià jūn wéi hóng zhàn miàn de 1 4; zhōng jiān wéi huáng huáng fēn piān zuǒ huì yòu bān guó huīhónghuáng liǎng shì bān rén mín 'ài de chuán tǒng yán bìng fēn bié dài biǎo chéng bān de lǎo wáng guóyòu zhǒng shuō shì hóng dài biǎo xuèhuáng dài biǎo huáng shā xuè huáng shā xiàng zhēng de shì bān rén mín 'ài de dǒu niú yùn dòngcóng zhōng xiàn de shì yīng yǒng wán qiáng wèi qiáng bào de jīng shén
  
     bān guó huīzhōng xīn 'àn wéi dùn huīdùn miàn shàng yòu liù 'ànzuǒ shàng jiǎo shì hóng shàng huáng chéng bǎoyòu shàng jiǎo wéi bái shàng tóu dài wáng guān de hóng shīchéng bǎo shī shì lǎo bān de biāo zhìfēn bié xiàng zhēng lāi 'ángzuǒ xià jiǎo wéi huánghóng xiāngjiàn de shù tiáoxiàng zhēng dōng běi de 'ā gòngyòu xià jiǎo wéi hóng shàng jīn liàn wǎngxiàng zhēng wèi běi de shì bái shàng hóng shí liúxiàng zhēng nán de dùn miàn zhōng xīn de lán tuǒ yuán xíng zhōng yòu sān duǒ bǎi huāxiàng zhēng guó jiā qiángrén mín xìng mín tuán jiédùn huī shàng duān yòu dǐng wáng guānzhè shì guó jiā quán de xiàng zhēngdùn huī liǎng bàng yòu gēn hǎi zhù chēng shén yín zhùzuǒyòu zhù dǐng duān fēn bié shì wáng guān guó guān miǎnchán rào zhe zhù de shì dài shàng xiě zhe hǎi wài hái yòu
  
     guó :《 huáng jiā jìn xíng bān guó zuì zǎo yuán shí shì luò sān shì shí de jūn duì jìn xíng huáng jiā míng chēng wéi bān róng jìn xíng 》, mín jiān chēng wéi bīng jìn xíng 》。 wáng shì céng duō zhì yīnyuè jiā xiě xīn dàn néng gòu chāo guò zhè qǔzǐ shì zhè shǒu yòu de guó biàn yán xià láizhí zhì 2007 nián nián yóu quán guó xìng zhēng de huó dòngquè dìng liǎo bān guó wéi bān wàn suì!/ men chàngyòng tóng de shēng yīntóng xīn;”
    “ bān wàn suì!/ cóng de shān dào hào hàn de hǎi yángshì xiōng de zàn ;”
    “ men 'ài de guóyào yōng bào zài zhàn lán de tiān kōng xià mín qīn jiā;”
    “ guāng róng de sūnwěi de shǐ chàng zhèng fán róng chàng mín zhù píng。”
  4 duàn xiàn liǎotuán jié yóumín zhù píng”。
  1931 nián 'èr gòng guó céng liè sòng dìng wéi guó dàn shì mín zhù zhèng shī bài hòu yòu huī liǎo yuán yòu guó de wèi
  
     zhòng yào rén 'ān · luò shìguó wáng bān guó jiā yuán shǒu。 1938 nián 1 yuè 5 shēng luó bān bàng wáng cháo dài guó wáng 'ā fāng suǒ shí sān shì zhī sūnyòu shí suí ruì shì táo děng guó。 1955 nián xiān hòu zài hǎikōng sān jūn jūn shì xué yuàn xué xué hòu dào zhèng mén shí xíng zhèng guǎn , 1969 nián 7 yuè jīng bān huì zhǔn wéi wáng wèi chéng rén, 1975 nián 11 yuè dēng àihào huá xuěshòu lièháng hǎiháng kōng。 1962 nián gōng zhù suǒ fěi jié hūnyòu 'èr
     sài · · luó · luóshǒuxiàng。 1960 nián 8 yuè 4 shēng - lāi 'áng zhì xué xué shì。 1979 nián jiā gōng shè dǎng。 1986 nián chéng wéi zuì nián qīng de zhòng yuán hòu lián 4 dāng xuǎn。 2000 nián 7 yuè bèi xuǎn wéi gōng shè dǎng zǒng shū 。 2004 nián 4 yuè chū rèn shǒuxiàng
  
   xíng zhèng huá
     quán guó huàfēn wéi 17 zhì , 50 shěng, 8000 duō shì zhèn。 17 zhì wéiān ā gòngā 'ā jiā kǎn lāi 'áng màn qiàjiā tài luó āi léi jiā 'ěr 'ào lún
  
     xíng zhèng huá / xíng zhèng zhōng xīn
  
     ān Andalucia/ sài wéi Sevilla
  
     ā gòng Aragón/ Zaragoza
  
     ā Asturias/ ào wéi duō Oviedo
  
     'ā Baleares/ lüè Mallorca
  
     Vasco/ wéi duō Vitoria-Gasteiz
  
     jiā Canarias/
  
     kǎn Cantabria/ sāng tǎn Santander
  
     lāi 'áng CastillayLeón/ duō Valladolid
  
     màn qià CastillaLaMancha/ tuō lāi duō Toledo
  
     jiā tài luó Catalu?a/ sài luó Barcelona
  
     āi léi Extremadura/ méi Mérida
  
     jiā Galicia/ shèng kǒng SantiagodeCompostela
  
     Madrid/ Madrid
  
     'ěr Murcia/ 'ěr Murcia
  
     Navarra/ pān luò Pamplona
  
     'ào LaRioja/ luò luó 'ào Logro?o
  
     lún Valencia/ lún Valencia
  
     yóu jiā qún dǎo -- dài fēng guāngtài yáng hǎi 'àn -- zhōng hǎi shā tān 'ā qún dǎo -- zhōng hǎi chí -- wén huà chéng;  
  
   rén kǒu
     bān de zhù yào mín shì zhàn zǒng rén kǒu 70% shàng díkǎ rénjiā tài luó rénjiā rén rén shì bān 20 shǎo shù mín zhōng zuì zhòng yào de sān
  
     jiā tài luó rén zhù yào zhù zài bān dōng běi sài luó shì jiā tài luó zhòng zhènshǎo shù jiā tài luó rén zhù zài 'ā gòng zài guó ān dào 'ěr guó jiā hái yòu yuē 60 wàn rénjiā rén de zài běi de jiā men de yuán tóng táo rén yòu qīn yuán guān wén huà yán shàng hěn jiē jìnzài guó wài jiā rén zhù yào zhōng zài 'ā gēn tíngzǒng gòng yòu 97.5 wàn rén fēn zài niú shān de yán zhe kǎn lián shān kāi wān yán 'àn zhùzài guó wài yuē yòu 30 wàn rénhěn duō zài guóshè huì xué jiā men zhì jīn wèi néng zhǎo dào de yuánzài zhè sān mín yán tóng bān yàng dōushì guān fāng yán
  
     bān zuì de sān chéng shì shì sài luó lún men de rén kǒu dōuzài 200 wàn rén shàngzài yuē zhàn quán guó miàn sān fēn zhī 'èr de nèi rén kǒu zhǐ yòu quán guó de sān fēn zhī shèng xià dedōu zhōng zài bīn lín zhōng hǎi yáng de gōng fán róng yán hǎi dài de kāi shěng měi píng fāng gōng yòu 263 rén sài luó shěng gèng 284 rénzài xiē gōng 'ā jiā tài luó děngshèn zhì měi píng fāng gōng chāo guò 500 rénér zài 'āi 'ěrsuǒ màn qià mǒu xiē rén yān shǎo de měi píng fāng gōng zhǐ yòu 9 rénzài nèi wéi rén kǒu jiào gāo de zhǐ yòu shǒu suǒ zài de shěngměi píng fāng gōng chāo guò bǎi rén
  
     bān rén kǒu yán zhòng xiàng lǎo líng huà bān bèi chéng wéi 'ōu zhōu zuì shì zhù de guó jiā zhī suí zhe shēng huó shuǐ píng de gāorén kǒu píng jūn shòu mìng zài 1980 nián jiù dào 76 suìzài 'ōu zhōu jǐn lánjìn guǎn shì chuán tǒng tiān zhù jiào guó jiādàn shì yóu shòu dào xiàn dài hūn yīn jiā tíng guān niàn de chōng qīng nián rén xiàng wǎn jié hūn jié hūn yào hái hūn líng nán jié hūn shuài zhǐ yòu qiān fēn zhī zuǒ yòu jiù shì shuō tóng shí nián dài chū jié hūn rén shù měi nián jiǎn shǎo bǎi fēn zhī 'èr shí qiánpíng jūn měi shēng 2.1 hái jiā tíng guī suō xiǎo dào měi sān rén zuǒ yòuzài 'ōu zhōu shǔ jiào shuǐ píng guò bān de hūn shuài jiào zhǐ yòu qiān fēn zhī líng diǎn bān de 'ér tóng wáng shuài shì 'ōu zhōu jiào dezài bǎi fēn zhī xià liàng hǎi wài mín zào chéng liǎo bān rén kǒu de zēngchánglǜzhè shì fāng guó jiā rén kǒu zēngzhǎng yuán yīn de tóng zhī chù
  
     qián zài guó wài zhù de bān rén zǒng yuē yòu 336 wàn rén zhōng měi zhōu yòu 220.7 wàn rénōu zhōu wéi 107.3 wàn duàn de qiān shì bān rén kǒu tǒng de diǎnzhè céng jīng de zhí mín tǒng zhì yòu guānxīn xiàn zhī hòu liàng de bān rén yǒng xiàng zhōng měi zhōu nán měi zhōushèn zhì běi měi zhōu de fēn xún zhǎo huáng jīn mào xiǎndào 1913 nián bān měi zhōu mín gòng yòu 22 wànzhàn hòu bān mín fāng xiàng shēng liǎo fāng xiàng xìng de zhuǎn。 1960 nián qiánzuì duō yòu bǎi fēn zhī shí de mín de biāo shì yáng duì 'àn de měi zhōuhòu lái zhòu jiàng dào bǎi fēn zhī shítóng shí liàng mín xīn de mèng xiǎng zhuànxiàng liǎo 'ōu zhōu men zuì de fāng shì guó guó ruì shìzhàn hòu bān qiān wǎng guó wài de rén kǒu gòng yòu 150 wàn。  
  
   shǒu
     bān shǒu de biāo zhì shì zhǐ zhàn zhe gòu píng guǒ chī de xióng chù hǎi 670 de shān jiān pén shàngshì 'ōu zhōu shì zuì gāo de shǒu zhī zhè fēng guāng xiù yáng guāng càn lànkōng qīng xīnměi nián de qíng tiān shù 'ōu zhōu shǒu zhī shǒu
  
     zài dài guò shì màn léi pàn de xiǎo cūn luòluó rén rén 'ā rén xiān hòu zài zhè tǒng zhì de míng lái gōng yuán shí shì 'ā rén zài zhè xiū jiàn de yào sài 。 1083 nián bān rén wài lái tǒng zhì zhě gǎn chū liǎo bàn dǎo。 1562 niánfèi pèi 'èr shì jiāng shǒu cóng tuō lāi duō qiān wǎng wèi bàn dǎo xīn zàng dài de zhàn lüè yào dāng shí zhè zuò chéng shì zhǐ yòu 3 wàn míndàn shì jīn tiān yōng yòu rén kǒu jìn bǎi wànchéng wéi bān zhèng zhìjīng wén huàjiāo tōng jīn róng zhōng xīn
  
     xiàn zài de shì zuò xiàn dài huà de chéng shì bān gōng zǒng chǎn zhí de 10% lái zhè zuò shǒu de zhì zàohuà xué gōng jiàn zhù cái jiā gōngshí pǐn děng gōng mén cóng 1851 nián tiáo tiě tōng chē lái tóng guó nèi 20 duō chéng shì shì jiè chéng shì tōng yòu fēi háng xiàn bān de gōng wǎng wéi zhōng xīn xiàng quán guó yán shēn tiě jiāo tōng shì shì nèi de zhù yào jiāo tōng fāng shì tiě zǒng cháng yuē 100 gōng měi tiān 100 wàn rén shàng xià jìn chū
  
     shù míng shèng biàn quán chéng。 1000 duō kǎi xuán mén, 3000 duō guǎng chǎng, 50 zuò guǎnzhè zuò 1992 nián bèi píng wéiōu zhōu wén huà míng chéngde chéng yáng zhe nóng liè de shǐ fēn wéisān zhù yào guǎng chǎng héng héng tài yáng mén guǎng chǎngzhōng xīn guǎng chǎng bān guǎng chǎng zhī jiān de sān jiǎo dài jiù shì de shì zhōng xīntài yáng mén guǎng chǎng bèi chēng wéi bān de zhōng xīnzài yòu biāo zhì bān rén wéi diǎn suàn tōng wǎng quán guó de chēhuǒ chēfēi de chéng bān guǎng chǎng shàng yòu bān zhù míng de sài wàn niàn bēi niàn bēi de miàn shì bān kāi guó wáng suō bèi 'ěr xiàng xiàng zhēng píng jìng de zhōng hǎi xiōng yǒng de yáng de liǎng shuǐ chílìng miàn shì xiǎng shì jiè de táng sāng qiū zhù tóng xiàng lún niàn bēi shù zài lún guǎng chǎngyáo wàng yuǎn fāng de lún diāo xiàng jiǎo xià sān wéi chuán xíng zhuàng de pēn quán shì biāo zhì xìng jiàn zhù zhī shén guǎng chǎng shàng de diāo shī zhàn chēde xíng xiàng jīng cháng bèi yòng lái biāo zhì shìzhè guǎng chǎng shì zhù míng qiú huì huáng jiā qiú huān qìng de diǎn
  
    suí zhe jìn 'èr shí nián lái yóu shì de zhǎn chú liǎo xīn jiàn liǎo duō guānshāng lóu děng wàitóng shí hái xīn jiàn liǎo duō zhù yào gōng wài guó yóu zhě xiū de huá fàn diàn guǎnzài xīn de jiàn zhù zhōng,“ ōu zhōu mén lùn zài jiàn zhù shàng hái shì zài měi xué shàng lìng rén tàn liǎng zuò duìchèn de píng xíng biān xíng lóu fēn bié zuò luò zài gāo de liǎng xiàng duì fāng liè qīng xiézhè shì wéi zài zhào kāi de 'ōu méng huì xīng jiàn de jiàn zhùxiǎn shì chū zhǒng yǒng gǎn wèi de háo 。  
  
   zhèng zhì
  【 zhèng zhì
  2004 nián 3 yuè 11 shēng kǒng bào zhà shì jiànduì zhèng zào chéng shēn yuǎn yǐng xiǎngjìn guǎn zhèng gēngdiédàn shè huì 'ān dìngjīng wěn zhōng yòu shēngxīn rèn shǒuxiàng luó tuī xíngduì huà xié shāng”, cǎi liè dài yòu gōng shè dǎng chuán tǒng zuǒ cǎi de zhèng shí shī wěn dìng hóng guān jīng wéi chí cái zhèng píng héng wéi zhòng diǎn de jīng zhèng tuī xíng mín zhù xīnguān zhù ruò shì qún zài fǎn duì jiā tíng bào jiě jué fēi mín gāo zuì gōng yǎng lǎo jīn zēng jiā jiǎng xué jīn děng fāng miàn bān huò xiū gǎi liǎo xiāng guān huò tiáo jiā fǎn kǒng kāi zhǎn guó fǎn kǒng zuò
  【 xiàn
   xiàn xíng xiàn 1978 nián 12 yuè 6 quán guó gōng mín tóu piào tōng guò, 12 yuè 29 shēng xiàoxiàn guī dìng bān shì shè huì mín zhù de zhì guó jiāshí xíng huì jūn zhù zhìwáng wèi yóu 'ān · luò shì de zhí hòu dài shì guó wáng wèiguó jiā yuán shǒu zhuāng duì zuì gāo tǒng shuàidài biǎo guó jiāzhèng zhì guó jiā bìng xiàng huì bào gào gōng zuòxiàn chéng rèn bìng bǎo zhèng mín de zhì quán
  【 huì
   yóu cān yuàn zhòng yuàn chéngxíng shǐ quánshěn cái zhèng suànjiān zhèng gōng zuò quán zhòng yuàn wéi zhùcān yuàn wéi dài biǎo yuàn yuán yóu xuǎn chǎn shēngrèn 4 niánběn jiè huì 2004 nián 4 yuè chéngzhòng yuán 350 míngcān yuán 259 míng zhōng 51 míng yóu zhì huì wěi rèn)。 liǎng yuàn fēn pèi qíng kuàng xià
     zhòng yuàn   cān yuàn
     gōng rén shè huì dǎng 16495
     rén mín dǎng 148126
     tǒng lián 106
     gòng zuǒ 8-
     jiā tài luó jìn lián méng -16
     lián zuǒ 5-
     mín zhù dǎng 77
     jiā lián méng 34
     dǎng pài 54
     zhòng cháng màn 'āi 'ěr · lín · gāng léi ( ManuelMarínGonzález, nán), 2004 nián 4 yuè jiù rèncān cháng lǎng · wéi 'ěr · luó huò · jiā ( FranciscoJavierRojoGarcía, nán), 2004 nián 4 yuè jiù rènliǎng rén jūn shǔ gōng shè dǎng
  【 zhèng 】 
   xiàn zhèng 2004 nián 4 yuè 18 jiù zhíxiàn yòu 17 míng nèi chéng yuánzhù yào yòushǒuxiàng sài · · luó · luó( JoséLuisRodríguezZapatero)、 shǒu xiāng jiān shǒu xiāng chénzhèng yán rén · léi suō · fèi 'ěr nán · wéi jiā · sāng )( MaríaTeresaFernándezdelaVegaSanz)、 'èr shǒu xiāng jiān jīng cái zhèng chén pèi luó · suǒ 'ěr wéi · ( PedroSolbesMira)、 wài jiāo zuò chén 'ěr · ān 'ěr · nuò · bǎi( MiguelÁngelMoratinosCuyaubé) děng
  【 gòu】  
   lǐng dǎo gòu shì zǒng wěi yuán huìyóu míng chéng yuán chéngzuì gāo yuàn yuàn cháng jiān rèn zhù gòu fēn yuàn xíng zhèng yuàn liǎng tǒngzuì gāo yuàn yuàn cháng lǎng · sài · āi 'ěr nán duō( FranciscoJoséHernando), guó jiā yuàn yuàn cháng luò · 'ěr (CarlosDivar)。
  
     zuì gāo jiǎn chá gòu shì guó jiā zǒng jiǎn chá yuànxià xiá jiǎn chá yuàn pài zhù mén de jiǎn chá guānguó jiā zǒng jiǎn chá cháng kǎn duō · kǒng - péng duō (CandidoConde-Pumpido)。
  【 zhèng dǎng
   shí xíng duō dǎng zhìzhù yào zhèng dǎng yòu
    ( 1) bān gōng rén shè huì dǎng (PartidoSocialistaObreroEspañol): zhí zhèng dǎngchéng 1879 niánxiàn yòu dǎng yuán yuē 41 wàngāi dǎng zài 1982 1996 nián jiān chán lián zhí zhèngzhù màn 'āi 'ěr · chá wéi ( ManuelChaves), zǒng shū sài · · luó · luó( JoséLuisRodriguezZapatero)。 2004 nián 4 yuègōng shè dǎng zài xuǎn zhōng huò shèngshàng tái zhí zhèng
    ( 2) rén mín dǎng (PartidoPopular): yuán míng rén mín tóng méng, 1977 nián chuàng , 1989 nián míng wèirénmín dǎngzhí xíngzhōng jiān gǎi liáng zhù xiànxiàn yòu dǎng yuán yuē 60 wàngāi dǎng chéng hòu jiǔ biàn zài guó jiā de zhèng zhì tái shàng zhǎn lòutóu jiǎo liàng duàn kuò 。 1996 nián 5 yuè shǒu shàng tái zhí zhèng。 2000 nián 4 yuè chán lián zhí zhèngzhù nuò · huò ( MarianoRajoy), zǒng shū 'ān 'ěr · · ā sài wéi (AngelJesúsAcebes)。 2004 nián zài xuǎn zhōng shī chéng wéi zuì zài dǎng
    ( 3) bān gòng chǎn dǎng (PartidoComunistadeEspaña): chéng 1920 niándǎng yuán yuē 4 wànzǒng shū lǎng · tuō ( FranciscoFrutos)。 gòng zuǒ dǎng pài chéng wéi zhù de lián zuǒ ( IzquierdaUnida), dǎng yuán yuē 5 wànjiā 'ěr · léi ( GasparLlamazares) rèn zǒng xié diào rén
    ( 4) jiā tài luó mín zhù lián méng (ConvergenciaDemocráticadeCataluña): lìng wài mín zhù zhèng dǎng héng jiā tài luó mín zhù tuán jié dǎng (UnionDemocráticadeCataluña) zài jiā tài luó zhì lián zhí zhèng。 1975 nián chéng dǎng yuán yuē 1 wànzhù huò 'ěr · yuē 'ěr (JordiPujol), zǒng shū 'ā 'ěr · (ArturMas)。
    ( 5) mín zhù dǎng (PartidoNacionalistaVasco): 1895 nián chéng zhì zhí zhèng dǎngdǎng yuán yuē 4 wànzhù huò · huò 'ēn · (JosuJonImaz)。
  
  【 jūn shì
   zhuāng liàng yóu zhèng guī jūn zhǔn jūn shì liàngguó jiā 'ān quán duì chéngguó wáng wéi zuì gāo tǒng shuàiguó fáng wěi yuán huì shì guó fáng zuì gāo jué gòuguó wáng rèn zhù zhèng shǒuxiàng zhù chí gōng zuòchéng yuán yòu shǒuxiàngguó fángwài jiāonèi zhèng chénguó fáng cān móu chángsān jūn cān móu chángguó fáng zhì dìng fáng zhèng bìng lǐng dǎo guó fáng gōng sān jūn cān móu cháng lián huì shì shǒuxiàng guó fáng chén de jūn shì wèn gòuguó fáng cān móu cháng fèi · sāng · luó 'ěr dān( FélixSanzRoldán) shàngjiàng。 2001 nián 3 yuè cháng shì huì tōng guò lìngjué dìng 2001 nián 12 yuè 31 xiāo bīng zhìshí xiàn jūn duì zhí huà
  
     2005 nián guó fáng suàn 69.91 'ōu yuánzhàn guó nèi shēng chǎn zǒng zhí de 0.8%。 zhèng guī jūn zǒng bīng wéi 12.1 wàn rén zhōng jūn 7.71 wàn rénhǎi jūn 1.94 wàn rénkōng jūn 2.1 wàn rénsān jūn hòu bèi gòng 32.85 wàn rén wàiguó jiā jǐng chá 5.3 wàn rénguó mín jǐng wèi duì 7.1 wàn rén 2004 nián sān jūn chè xiāo liǎo yuán yòu jiàn zhìbìng gēn zhí néng rèn fēn gōngchéng liǎo 6 zuò zhàn lìng 、 10 duì zhī yuán guān jiǎn shǎo zhǐ huī céng jiā qiáng zuò zhàn xiàolǜ
  
   wài jiāo
  【 duì wài guān luó zhèng shàng tái hòu tiáozhěng wài jiāo zhèng zhù zhāng zài chǔlǐ guó shì zhōng cǎi shí yòu xiào de duō biān zhù zhèng qiáng diào lián guó de zhù dǎo zuò yòngchàng dǎo tóng wén míng zhī jiān kāi zhǎn duì huàjiàn shì jiè wén míng lián méng fèng xíngōu zhōu zhù zuò wéi zhòng diǎn zhì shēn 'ōu méng jiàn shè de zhōng xīn gǒng jiā qiáng měi guó jiā de yǒu hǎo zuò guān bìng tuī dòng 'ōu méng zhǎn tóng měi de zuò huī zhǎn tóng běi fēi guó jiā de guān tuī dòng zhōng hǎi de 'ān quán zuòzhù zhāng 'ōu méng běi yuē zài dōng kuò tóng shí jiān nán xiàguān zhù zhōng dōng de píng wěn dìng tuī dòng xiàn jìhuà de shí shī qiú zài jiě jué chōng fāng miàn yòu suǒ zuò wéizhòng shì jiā qiáng zài tài de zhèng zhì jīng cún zàizhòng diǎn zhǎn zhōng guó běnhán guó dōng nán guó jiā de guān jìn 200 guó jiā yòu wài jiāolǐng shì shāng guān 。 2003-2004 niánrèn lián guó 'ān huì fēi cháng rèn shì guó 'ān huì fǎn kǒng wěi yuán huì zhù
    【 tóng 'ōu méng de guān 】  fèng xíng 'ōu zhōu zhù shì 'ōu zhōu wéi duì wài zhèng sān chuán tǒng zhī zhù zhī shǒuróng 'ōu méng bìng zài 'ōu méng nèi huī gèng zuò yòng shì duì wài zhèng de gēn běnrèn wéi qiáng tuán jié de 'ōu zhōu shì shì jiè jìn de bǎo zhàngōu méng yìng yōng yòu zhēn zhèng de 'ān quán fáng zhèng zài fáng jiě jué guó chōng zhōng huī yòu xiào xìn de zuò yònggēn lián guó xiàn zhāng dān wéi shì jiè píng 'ān quán de rèn。 2005 nián 2 yuè jiùōu méng xiàn tiáo yuē xíng quán mín gōng juéchéng wéi 'ōu méng jīng gōng tóu tōng guò 'ōu méng xiàn de guó jiā 'ōu méng chéng yuán guó bǎo chí mìqiè guān qiáng huà guó guó deqīn chuán tǒng yǒu hǎo guān ”。 tóng guó guó táo jiàn liǎo zhèng shǒu nǎo dìng huì zhìōu méng chéng yuán guó shì de zhù yào jīng mào huǒ bàn qián jìn kǒu de 64% chū kǒu de 71% shàng 'ōu méng chéng yuán guó jìn xíngwài guó duì tóu de 50% shàng lái 'ōu méng guó jiā
    【 tóng dīng měi zhōu guó jiā de guān 】  měi guó jiā yòu shū chuán tǒng guān zhǎn měi guó jiā de guān zuò wéi zhàn lüè zhòng diǎnqiáng diào wéi shuāng fāng yōu xiān guān kuò zhèng zhì duì huà zuò zhìbāng zhù měi guó jiā jiā qiáng gǒng mín zhù zhèng qiáng huà wén míng shè huìzhī chí měi jīng huàzhèng zhì xié shāng zhì chí zhǎn。 2005 nián 10 yuè bàn liǎo 15 jiè měi zhōu guó jiā shǒu nǎo huì jiā qiáng měi guó jiā zài zhèng zhì jīng lǐng de jiāo liú zuòkuò mào guī jìn shuāng biān zuò zhǎn zhù zhāng tōng guò jiàn 'ōu méng měi zhàn lüè huǒ bàn guān tuī dòng 'ōu méng měi jìn jiē jìn。 
  
   bān zhōng guó de shuāng biān guān
   gāi fēn nèi róng zhuǎn zhōng huá rén mín gòng guó wài jiāo wǎng zhàn
   shuāng biān zhèng zhì guān huí
     1、 zhōng guó bān 1973 nián 3 yuè 9 jiàn jiāo
     2、 jiàn jiāo hòushuāng biān guān zhǎn píng wěnshuāng fāng zài zhèng zhìjīng mào wén huà děng lǐng de jiāo wǎng zuò duàn kuò liǎng guó zhèng zhì guān mìqièshuāng fāng lǐng dǎo rén bǎo chí zhe jīng cháng xìng de wǎng lái。 2005 nián 11 yuèguó jiā zhù jǐn tāo fǎng jiānliǎng guó xuān jiàn quán miàn zhàn lüè huǒ bàn guān
     jìn nián dài láifǎng de zhōng guó lǐng dǎo rén zhù yào yòuguó jiā zhù jiāng mín( 1996 nián)、 guó yuàn zǒng bāng guó( 2001 nián 6 yuè)、 guó jiā zhù jǐn tāo( 2001 nián 11 yuè)、 wài jiāo cháng táng jiā xuán( 2002 nián 11 yuè)、 quán guó rén wěi yuán cháng wáng zhào guó( 2003 nián 11 yuè)、 quán guó zhèng xié zhù jiǎ qìng lín( 2004 nián 9 yuè guó yuàn zǒng céng péi yán( 2004 nián 11 yuè)、 guó jiā zhù jǐn tāo( 2005 nián 11 yuè)、 zhōng gòng zhōng yāng zhèng zhì cháng wěizhōng yāng wěi shū guān zhèng( 2007 nián 4 yuè)。
     lái fǎng de lǐng dǎo rén zhù yào yòucān cháng léi luó( 1998 nián 11 yuè)、 'èr shǒu xiāng jiān jīng chén tuō( 1998 nián 11 yuè、 2001 nián 11 yuè 2002 nián 10 yuè)、 shǒuxiàng 'ā 'ěr( 2000 nián 6 yuè)、 wáng chǔ fèi pèi( 2000 nián 11 yuè 2006 nián 7 yuè)、 wáng hòu suǒ fěi ( 2003 nián 3 yuè)、 wài jiāo chén 'ào( 2003 nián 7 yuè 12 yuè)、 zhòng cháng ( 2003 nián 11 yuè)、 cān cháng luó huò( 2005 nián 4 yuè)、 shǒuxiàng luó( 2005 nián 7 yuè)、 wài jiāo zuò chén nuò ( 2006 nián 3 yuè)、 'èr shǒu xiāng jiān jīng cái zhèng chén suǒ 'ěr wéi ( 2006 nián 4 yuè)、 shǒu xiāng jiān shǒu xiāng chén wéi jiā( 2007 nián 4 yuè)。
     èrshuāng biān jīng mào guān jīng shù zuò
     jiàn jiāo hòuzhōng jīng mào guān zhǎn xùn mào 'é duàn zēngzhǎng zhōng guó hǎi guān zǒng shǔ tǒng , 2006 niánshuāng biān mào 'é wéi 144.92 měi yuántóng zēngzhǎng 37.7%。 2007 nián 1 zhì 2 yuèshuāng biān mào 'é wéi 28.08 měi yuántóng zēngzhǎng 69.6%。
     zhōng guó duì zhù yào chū kǒu shāng pǐn shìfǎng zhì pǐn zhuāng xié lèi diàn chǎn pǐnjiā yòng diàn xíng yòng pǐn xiāng bāotáo huòyào pǐn děng cóng zhù yào jìn kǒu shāng pǐn shì xiè shè bèigāng cái liàohuà gōng yào zhì pǐn děng
     1985 nián zhì jīn zhèng xiàng gōng liǎo 9 dài kuǎnlěi chéng nuò jīn 'é 39 'ōu yuánshí shǐ yòng 29.3 'ōu yuánzhù yào yòng tiě chéng shì guǐ dào jiāo tōngjiāo tōng kòng zhìfēng diàntài yáng néngshuǐ chù chǔlǐhuán bǎochéng shì xiāo fáng liáojiào xué péi xùntōng xùnnóng děng lǐng de xiàng liǎng guó jiān jiào de zuò xiàng yòujiān shěn tiě diàn huà gōng chénghǎi nán háng kōng gòu mǎi xiàng tiān jīn qīng guǐtiān jīn tiě 'ān tiān rán gōng chéng děng
     jié zhì 2006 nián zài huá tóu xiàng wéi 1249 shí tóu 10.29 měi yuánshì 'ōu méng liù duì huá tóu guózhù yào fēn zài běi jīngtiān jīnshàng hǎiguǎng dōng dàihángyè shè jīn róngnéng yuándiàn xìn yùn shū děng zài shè yuē 20 jiā huò zhù yào zhōng zài mào děng lǐng zhōng gòng qiān shù yǐn jìn tóng 603 xiàngjīn 'é wéi 30.77 měi yuánshuāng fāng de zhù yào zuò lǐng shìdiàn huà gōng xièchéng jiàn huán bǎo děng
     sānwén huà jiào jūn shì jiāo wǎng zuò
     zhōng liǎng guó qiān yòu zuò chǔ xié dìng》、《 wén huàjiào xué zuò xié dìng rén cái jiāo liú xié 》。 zhōng hùn wěi huì xíng liǎo 6 huì wén huàjiào hùn wěi huì xíng liǎo 7 huì sài wàn xué yuàn běi jīng fēn yuàn 2006 nián 7 yuè zhèng shì chéng liǎng guó pài liú xué shēng
     shàng shì 80 nián dài chūliǎng jūn kāi shǐ jìn xíng jūn shì jiāo wǎnghòu céng zhōng duànjìn nián láiliǎng jūn yǒu hǎo jiāo wǎng pín fán。 2002 nián hǎi jūn cān móu cháng tuō lún fǎng huá。 2003 niánzhōng yāng jūn wěi wěi yuánzǒng zhèng zhì zhù rèn cái hòu shàngjiàng fǎng 。 2005 nián 3 yuèzhōng yāng jūn wěi wěi yuánkōng jūn lìng yuán qiáo qīng chén shàngjiàng fǎng 。 2006 nián 5 yuè kōng jūn cān móu cháng wéi jiā shàngjiàng fǎng huá
     shuāng biān zhòng yào xié dìng wén jiàn
     zhōng zhù shǐ fēn bié dài biǎo liǎng guó zhèng zài qiān shǔ jiàn jiāo lián gōng bào( 1973 nián 3 yuè 9
     zhōng qiān shǔ mào xié dìng mín yòng háng kōng yùn shū xié dìng( 1978 nián 6 yuè 19
     shuāng fāng qiān dìng wén huàjiào xué zuò xié dìng( 1981 nián 4 yuè 7
     liǎng guó qiān shǔ zhǎn jīng gōng zuò xié dìng( 1984 nián 11 yuè 15
     shuāng fāng qiān shǔ zuò chǔ xié dìng( 1985 nián 9 yuè 5
     liǎng guó qiān shǔ guān miǎn shuāngchóng zhēng shuì fáng zhǐ tōu lòu shuì de xié dìng( 1990 nián 11 yuè 22
     shuāng fāng qiān shǔ guān xiāng bǎo tóu xié dìng( 1992 nián 2 yuè 6
     liǎng guó qiān dìng guān mín shìshāng shì xié zhù de tiáo yuē( 1992 nián 5 yuè 2
     shuāng fāng qiān dìng liǎng guó zhèng yòu zhì fàn zuì de zuò xié dìng( 2000 nián 6 yuè 25
     liǎng guó qiān dìng guān xíng shì xié zhù de tiáo yuē( 2005 nián 7 yuè 21
     liǎng guó qiān dìng yǐn tiáo yuē( 2005 nián 11 yuè 14
     liǎng guó qiān dìng guān guǎn bèi pàn xíng rén de tiáo yuē( 2005 nián 11 yuè 14
   liǎng guó guān shè wén huà zhōng xīn de xié ( 2005 nián 11 yuè 14
  
  
   jīng
    【 jīng 】   shì zhōng děng de běn zhù gōng guó。 80 nián dài chū kāi shǐ shí xíng jǐn suōtiáozhěnggǎi zhèng cǎi liǎo liè jīng yóu huà cuò shī 1986 nián jiā 'ōu gòng wéi jīng zhǎn chū xiàn gāo cháo。 90 nián dài chūyóu chū xiàn jīng guò xiàn xiàngjīng zēngzhǎng fàng màn bìng xiàn shuāi tuì。 90 nián dài zhōng láizài zhèng cǎi de hóng guān tiáokòng zhèng de zuò yòng xià , jīng kāi shǐ huí shēng bìng chí wěn zēngzhǎng 1998 nián 5 yuè chéng wéi shǒu jiā 'ōu yuán de guó jiā zhī qián jīng bǎo chí wěn dìng zēngzhǎng tài shì
     2006 nián zhù yào jīng shù xià
     guó nèi shēng chǎn zǒng zhí: 9762 'ōu yuán
     rén jūn guó nèi shēng chǎn zǒng zhí: 21834 ōu yuán
     jīng zēngchánglǜ: 3.9%。
     huò míng chēngōu yuán
     tōng huò péng zhàng shuài: 2.7%
     shī shuài: 8.7%
    【 yuánzhù yào kuàng chǎn chǔ cáng liàngméi 88 dūntiě 19 dūnhuáng tiě kuàng 5 dūntóng 400 wàn dūnxīn 190 wàn dūngǒng 70 wàn dūnsēn lín zǒng miàn 1437 wàn gōng qǐng
    【 gōng 】 2005 nián gōng chǎn zhí 2662.75 'ōu yuánzhàn guó nèi shēng chǎn zǒng zhí de 28.5%。 zhù yào gōng mén yòu zào chuángāng tiě chēshuǐ cǎi kuàngjiàn zhùfǎng zhìhuà gōng diàn děng hángyè zhōng chē shēng chǎn liàng shì jiè liè hán guó zhī hòu。 2004 nián chē shēng chǎn liàng 297.8 wàn liàng chē cóng rén yuán 7.1 wàn rénzhíjiànjiē jiù rén yuán zhàn quán guó jiù rén kǒu de 11%, yòu 18 jiā chē shēng chǎn chǎng chē chū kǒu zhàn duì wài chū kǒu de 1/4。 jìn nián zhù yào gōng chǎn pǐn chǎn liàng xiàdān wèiwàn dūn):
     2001 nián 2002 nián 2003 nián
     gāng tiě 1651--
     chēwàn liàng) 284.7285.4252.0
     shuǐ 40514238.34422.5
    ( liào lái yuán: 2005 nián bān tǒng bào gào
    【 nóng 】 2005 nián nóng chǎn zhí 327 'ōu yuánzhàn guó nèi shēng chǎn zǒng zhí de 3.5%。 nóng zhàn 3331 wàn gōng qǐng zhōng yòng 2517 wàn gōng qǐng gēng 1665 wàn gōng qǐngzhūyángniú cún lán shù fēn bié wéi 2120 wàn tóu、 2000 wàn tóu、 600 wàn tóujìn nián zhù yào nóng chǎn pǐn chǎn liàng xiàdān wèiwàn dūn):
     2001 nián 2002 nián 2003 nián
     xiǎo mài 501.9679.5629.0
     mài 624.5832.8869.8
     493.6448.7433.9
     dào 837811--
     suān xìng shuǐ guǒ 531.7570.1--
     táo jiǔ shēng) 35.0535.7647.29
     gǎn lǎn 525.8456.9441.5
     gǎn lǎn yóu 102.188.383.7
    ( liào lái yuán: 2005 nián guó jiā tǒng bào gào
    【 】  guó mín jīng de zhòng yào zhī zhùbāo kuò wén jiàowèi shēngshāng yóu yánshè huì bǎo xiǎnyùn shū jīn róng děng zhōng yóu yóu jīn róng jiào wéi 。 2005 nián chǎn zhí 6353.24 'ōu yuánzhàn guó nèi shēng chǎn zǒng zhí de 68%。
    【 yóu 】   jīng de zhòng yào zhī zhù wài huì de zhù yào lái yuán zhī 。 2005 nián jiē dài wài guó yóu 5560 wàn rénjiào qián nián zēngzhǎng 6%, jìng shōu 460 'ōu yuánjiào qián nián zēngzhǎng 1%。 quán guó gòng yòu zhǒng guǎn 17402 jiāchuáng wèi yuē 151 wàn zhāng zhù shuài 53.58%。 quán guó gòng yòu 7751 jiā xíng shè。 2004 nián jiù rén kǒu 122.6 wàn rénzhàn jiù rén kǒu zǒng shù 7.2%。 zhù míng yóu shèng yòu sài luó sài wéi tài yáng hǎi 'ànměi hǎi 'àn děng
    【 jiāo tōng yùn shū】   jiāo tōng yùn shū wéi zhù。 2003 niánzhù yào jiāo tōng yùn shū qíng kuàng xià
     tiě zǒng cháng 15661 gōng yùn 6.54 rén , huò yùn 3230 wàn dūn
     gōng zǒng cháng 665637 gōng zhōng guó dào 24857 gōng fāng zhèng guǎn dào 70270 gōng lèi dào 69457 gōng yùn 28.65 rén , huò yùn 18 dūn
     shuǐ yùn lèi chuán 118033 sōu yùn liàng huò yùn liàng fēn bié wéi 2350 wàn rén 3.82 dūnzhù yào gǎng kǒu 27 zhōng zuì zhù yào de yòu sài luó 'ěr 'è ā 'ěr děng
     kōng yùnquán guó yòu chǎng 47 zhù yào chǎng yòu chǎng 'ěr · lüè chǎng sài luó chǎng。 2003 nián yùn liàng huò yùn liàng fēn bié wéi 1.52 rén 5.8 dūn
    ( liào lái yuán: 2005 nián bān tǒng bào gào
    【 cái zhèng jīn róng】    jìn nián cái zhèng shōu zhī qíng kuàng xiàdān wèi 'ōu yuán):
     2001 nián 2002 nián 2003 nián
     shōu 2591.162767.482560.31
     zhī chū 2593.452765.072680.96
     chì 2.292.41-120.65
    ( liào lái yuán: 2005 nián yínháng tǒng bào gào
     cái zhèng shōu zhù yào kào zhí jiē shuì jiànjiē shuì yòu huà suǒ jìn nián lái zhàn xiāng dāng zhòng。 2003 niáncái zhèng chì xiāng dāng guó nèi shēng chǎn zǒng zhí de 1.6%。 jié zhì 2005 nián wài zhài 11373.22 'ōu yuán wài huì chǔ bèi wéi 146 'ōu yuán
     bān zhù yào yínhángsāng tǎn zhōng bān měi zhōu yínháng (BancoSantanderCentralHispanoamericano), 'ěr 'è kāi duì wài yínháng tuán (BancoBilbaoVizcayaArgentaria) rén mín yínháng (BancoPopular)。
    【 duì wài mào 】 2005 nián duì wài mào zēngzhǎng 8.86%, zhōng jìn kǒu zēngzhǎng 11%, chū kǒu zēngzhǎng 4.5%。 jìn nián wài mào qíng kuàng xiàdān wèi 'ōu yuán):
     2003 nián 2004 nián 2005 nián
     jìn kǒu 'é 1840.92071.22337.1
     chū kǒu 'é 1378.11464.51552.4
     chā -462.8-606.7-784.7
    ( liào lái yuán: 2006 nián bān yínháng tǒng
     zhù yào jìn kǒu shí yóugōng yuán liào xiè shè bèi xiāo fèi pǐnzhù yào chū kǒu chēgāng cáihuà gōng chǎn pǐn zhì pǐnfǎng zhì pǐn táo jiǔ gǎn lǎn yóu děngzhù yào mào huǒ bàn shì 'ōu méng zhōu měi měi guó。 2004 nián duì 'ōu méng de jìnchū kǒu 'é fēn bié zhàn dāng nián jìn chū kǒu zǒng 'é de 64.6% 73.9%, duì zhōu jìnchū kǒu 'é fēn bié zhàn 14.6% 5.5%, duì měi jìnchū kǒu 'é fēn bié zhàn 3.6% 4%。
    【 zhí jiē tóu 】 2003 nián zài jìng wài zhí jiē tóu wéi 243.41 'ōu yuán shàng nián jiǎn shǎo liǎo 41.61%。 zhù yào tóu mén yòu jiāo tōngdiàn xìnnéng yuánjīn róngbǎo xiǎnfáng chǎn děngzhù yào tóu wéi dīng měi zhōu。 2005 nián shí yǐn wéi 166.18 'ōu yuán
    【 rén mín shēng huó】  jìn nián lái zhèng kāi zhī duàn zēng jiāzhí gōng jūn xiǎng shòu shè huì bǎo xiǎnfèi yòng yóu guó jiā dān 30.8%, rén chéng dān 69.2%。 nán xìng píng jūn shòu mìng wéi 77.2 suì xìng wéi 83.7 suì。 2004 nián gòng yòu zōng yuàn 774 suǒ, 19 wàn míng shēngpíng jūn měi suǒ yuàn yòu 2034 zhāng bìng chuángměi wàn rén yòu 37 zhāng bìng chuángměi bǎi rén yòu 62 liàng chērén jūn yuè gōng 2616.5 měi yuán
    ( liào lái yuán: 2005 nián guó jiā tǒng bào gào
  
   wén huà mín shēng
     zōng jiào
  
     bān cóng luó rén tǒng zhì shí kāi shǐ jiù què liǎo tiān zhù jiào guó jiā de wèigōng yuán shì zài zhēng zhàn zhēng jiāng 'ā rén gǎn chū bàn dǎo zhī hòutiān zhù jiào wán quán kòng zhì liǎo zhěng bān zhōng shì bān zōng jiào cái pàn suǒhéng xíng zhěng 'ōu zhōulàn shī xíng shā duānshàng zhì wáng gōng chénxià zhì píng mín bǎi xìng tán biànōu zhōu zōng jiào gǎi shí bān chéng wéi 'ōu guó de yǎn zhōng dīngshí shì hòujiào huì shì liàng zhī jiān de máo dùn duàn huàfǎn jiào quán yùn dòng gāo zhǎngjiào huì shì zhú jiàn shuāi bàidàn shì qián réng yòu bǎi fēn zhī jiǔ shí de bān rén xìn fèng tiān zhù jiào yòu xīn jiào yóu tài jiào lán jiào
  
     bān quán jìng fēn shí jiào zhōng tuō lāi duō jiào shì zuì shì zuì zhòng yào de tuō lāi duō zhù jiào cóng shí lái jiù shì bān de hóng zhù jiào
  
     tiān zhù jiào de yǐng xiǎng gèng duō biǎo xiàn zài bān rén de cháng shēng huó zhōngxiàng tiān zhù jiào yàng bān rén shēng zhōng zuì zhòng yào de shí dōushì zài jiào táng zhōng guò dechū shēng hòu de lǐng shèng cānhūn hòu de zàng bān jié zhòng duōyòu yuán yīn jiù shì měi chéng shìměi cūn měi zhǒng zhí dōuyòu shèng zuò wéi shǒu shénměi dào shèng shēng de shí hòuzhè chéng shì huò zhě hángyè gōng huì jiù yào xíng zōng jiào yóu xínglìng wàiměi jiào yědōu yòu de shǒu shén jǐn yào guò de shēng yào guò shèng de shēng chēng zuò“ DíadelSanto”。 bān rén de míng duō shèng zuì cháng jiàn de nán míng jiù shì shèng shèng sài ”, ér qiě lùn nán jīng cháng zhè liǎng míng lián yòng bān qián rèn shǒuxiàng jiù jiào sài · · ā 'ěr”。
  
   jiào
   bān de jiào shòu dào tiān zhù jiào huì de kòng zhìxiàn zài bān de jiào zhì zhù yào fēn wéi xué qián jiào jiào xué shì jiào gāo děng jiào zhí péi xùn
     2 dào 3 suì de 'ér tóng yuàn shàng yòu 'ér yuán xiǎo bān, 4 dào 5 suì shàng bānguó jiā de yòu 'ér yuán shì miǎn fèi de jiào ( 6~ 16 suì shì bìng qiě jiāo tōng shí táng shì miǎn fèi de jiào de duì xiàng shì 6 dào 14 suì de 'ér tóngchū xiǎo sān niángāo xiǎo liǎng niánchū zhōng sān nián
     xiǎo xué zhù yào chéng yòu wénshù xuéshè huì rán yàn shù biǎo yīn
     chū zhōng zēng jiā liǎo rén wén rán xuéwài zōng jiào děng chéngxué shēng wán chéng chū zhōng xué hòu xuǎn shēng zōng zhōng xuégāo zhōng chēng xué ), móu zhí
     zōng zhōng xué zhù yào yòu sān lèi de chéng shì wén xuébāo kuò rén wén xué diǎn yánèr shì xuézhòng diǎn shì shù xuésān shì yòu guān nóng gōng fāng miàn de shù chéngxué shēng zài xiào jiān xuǎn fēn xué wán chéng rèn xué de chéngjīng kǎo shì huò xué shì xué wèizài chē jiān xué xiào hángyè zhī jiā liǎng zhǒng xíng shì de zhí xué xiào zhí péi xùn fēn zhuān lùn shí jiànzhí péi xùn shì miǎn fèi dezài chú liǎo chǔ wàihái xué dào gōng huì guǎn xué zhǒng zhuān chéng
     bān de màn xué xué dōushì 'ōu zhōu zuì lǎo de xué zhī zài bān xiàn zhōng guī dìng xué shè tuán yòu xué yóujiào xué yóu xué zhì zhì xué dìng guī zhāngxuǎn xué xiào lǐng dǎo gòuzhì dìng suàn rén yuán biān zhì zhù jìn xíng xué wèi píng dìng
     bān yòu sān shí suǒ gōng xué suǒ yóu jiào huì zhù bàn de xué zhì xué shì bān zuì de gāo děng xué zhù míng xué hái yòu xué màn xué sài luó zhōng yāng xué děng
    xiǎo xué wéi 6 niánzhōng xué wéi 4 nián xué 4~5 nián。 2003 niánjiào fèi yòng zhàn guó nèi shēng chǎn zǒng zhí de 4.35%, zhōng wéi gōng gòng mén de tóu
  2004~ 2005 xué nián xué shēng zǒng shù 8441616 rén zhōng xué xiào xué shēng qíng kuàng
     xué xiàosuǒxué shēngrén
     xué líng qián jiào 35961419307
     xiǎo xué 122722494598
     shū xué xiào --29283
     zhōng xué 62761876322
     --632154
     zhuān --516504
     xué 721473448
     cóng shì fēi gāo děng jiào de jiào shī gòng 562510 rén zhōng gōng xué xiào jiào shī 411399 rén xué xiào 151111 réngāo děng jiào gòng yòu shī 86774 rén
    ( liào lái yuán bān jiào xué 2004~ 05 nián tǒng bào gào
   bān shè jiāo
   tài
   dāng yòu " shàn ", dāng kāi shàn liǎn de xià zhē lái shì shì 'ài de huān ruò huì 'ér kāi huì 'ér shàng biǎo shì hěn xiǎng niàn yīn chū dào bān de guǒ liǎo jiě shàn zuì hǎo yào shǐ yòng shàn
   xiāng jiàn
   bān rén tōng cháng zài zhèng shì shè jiāo chǎng rén xiāng jiàn shíxíng shǒu shú rén xiāng jiàn shínán péng yǒu zhī jiān cháng jǐn jǐn yōng bào bān rén de xìng míng cháng yòu sān jiéqián 'èr jié wéi běn rén xìng míngdàoshǔ 'èr jié wéi xìngzuì hòu jié wéi xìngtōng cháng kǒu tóu chēng chēng xìng
   shāng
   bān rén hěn zhòng shì xìn zǒng shì jìn néng xíng qiān dìng de tóng biàn hòu lái xiàn tóng zhōng yòu duì men de fāng men yuàn gōng kāi chéng rèn de guò shī zài zhè zhǒng qíng kuàng xiàduì fāng néng gòu shàn bāng zhù men huì yíng bān rén de zūn zhòng yǒu bān rén zhǐ yòu zài cān jiā dǒu niú sài huó dòng shí cái yán shǒu shí jiāndàn rén yīngdāng shǒu shí biàn duì fāng wǎn dào yào jiā guài
   yóu
   bān rén xìng kāi lǎng qíngdàn róng dòngyòu shí shēng zhēng chǎo shì hěn zhèng cháng de men duì wéi cháng bān rén chī dōng shítōng cháng huì mào yāo qǐng zhōu wéi de rén fēn xiǎngdàn zhè jǐn shì zhǒng shàng de biǎo shì yào mào rán jiē shòufǒu huì bèi men shì wéi quē jiào yǎng
  
   xīn wén chū bǎnquán guó gòng yòu bào kān 155 zhǒngquán guó xìng zhì 170 zhǒngxiāo shòu liàng gòng 420 wànzhù yào bào zhǐ píng jūn xíng liàng:《 guó jiā bào》, xíng liàng 46 wàn fèn;《 shì jiè bào》, 31 wàn fèn;《 ā bèi sài bào》, 28 wàn fèn;《 xiān fēng bào》, 20 wàn fèn;《 jiā tài luó bào》, 17 wàn fèn;《 dào bào》 15 wàn fèn
     zhù yào tōng xùn shèāi fěi shèguān fāng tōng xùn shè, 1939 nián 1 yuè chuàng bànlìng wài hái yòu yíng de 'ōu zhōu tōng xùn shèluó tōng xùn shè
     guǎng diàn shì zǒng tǒng guǎn diàn táidiàn shì táiquán guó gòng yòu 200 duō jiā diàn táizhù yào yòu bān guó jiā guǎng diàn tái yíng de bān guǎng gōng zhōu diàn tái bān rén mín guǎng diàn tái
     diàn shì tái bān diàn shì tái wèiguó yíngquán guó xìng diàn shì táiyòu liǎng pín dào wài hái yòu 'ān jiā tài luó jiā děng fāng diàn shì tái。 1989 nián zhèng zhǔn jiàn liǎo duō pín dàotiān xiàn- 3 diàn shì 5 tái 3 jiā yíng diàn shì tái。 1997 nián liǎng jiā shù diàn shì tái kāi shǐ yùn yíng
    
     yǐn shízhǒng lèi yīn 'ér dàn shì duō cài dōuyào jiā gǎn lǎn yóu
  
  
   rán
     hòuzhōng méi sài gāo yuán shǔ xìng hòuběi běi yán hǎi shǔ hǎi yáng xìng wēn dài hòunán dōng nán shǔ zhōng hǎi xíng dài hòu běi jiào shī rùnnèi dōng nán jiào gān zàoyuè píng jūn wēn cóng běi dào nán: 1 yuè 9.4-10.3 ; 7 yuè 19.1-28.1℃。 nián jiàng shuǐ liàng bān 350-500 háo shān gāo 1, 500 háo
  
     kuàng cánggǒng chǔ liàng zhàn shì jiè shǒu wèibìng yòu méitiě huáng tiě kuàngshí yóu děngsēn lín miàn guǎng kuòyòu 'ōu zhōu shuān xiàngshān děngshèng chǎn shā dīng lóng xiā děng
  
     wèi zhìwèi 'ōu zhōu nán bàn dǎoběi bīn kāi wān lín táo nán zhí luó tuó hǎi xiá fēi zhōu de luò xiāng wàngdōng běi guóān dào 'ěr jiē rǎngdōng dōng nán lín zhōng hǎihǎi 'àn xiàn cháng yuē 7800 gōng jìng nèi duō shānshì 'ōu zhōu gāo shān guó jiā zhī jìng nèi gāo yuán shān xiāngjiànquán guó píng jūn hǎi 660 quán guó 35% de hǎi 1000 shàngpíng yuán jǐn zhàn 11%, shì 'ōu zhōu shì zuì gāo guó jiā zhī zhù yào shān mài běi yòu kǎn lián niú nán yòu léi shān mài 'ān shān màinán de sàn fēng hǎi 3478 wéi quán guó zuì gāo fēng
  
     bān chù 'ōu zhōu nán táo gòng tóng fēn xiǎng bàn dǎo bān wèi běi wěi 36 dào 44 jīng 9 18 fēn dōng jīng 3 19 fēn zhī jiānnán běi kuà 840 gōng dōng 1000 gōng guó miàn wéi 504750 píng fāng gōng bān rén shuō men de guó jiā xíng zhuàng xiàng kuài shú niú bān zài 'ōu zhōu jǐn 'é luó guó guó wèixiāng dāng 'ōu zhōu zǒng miàn de 'èr shí fēn zhī bàn dǎo zhī wài bān de lǐng bāo kuò hái zhōng hǎi de 'ā qún dǎo yáng de xiǎo jiā qún dǎo
  
     bān běi yán hǎi shì kāi wāndōng běi tóng guó 'ān dào 'ěr jiē rǎnggāo sǒng de niú shān zhè guó jiā fēn liǎng biāndōng miàn dōng nán miàn xiàng zhōng hǎixiàng nán yuè guò zhǐ yòu 14 gōng kuān de zhí luó tuó hǎi xiá biàn néng dào fēi zhōu de luò cháng fāng xíng de táo shì bān biān de lín zhí luó tuó hǎi xiá shì zhōng hǎi chū yáng de yào dàozhàn lüè wèi wéi zhòng yào bān yīng guó cháng lái zhí zài zhēng duó de zhù quán
  
     bāo kuò 'ā qún dǎo jiā qún dǎosān miàn huán hǎi de bān de hǎi 'àn xiàn cháng yuē 3904 gōng dàn shì hǎi 'àn jiào píng zhízhēn zhèng de tiān rán liáng gǎng zhōng zài běi fèi luó 'ěrpéng wéi wéi děng shì wéi chù zhōng hǎi de tiān rán gǎng wāndōng nán de hǎi 'àn xiàn shì gǎng kǒuér shì fēng jǐng de hǎi tān shèng wén míng bān zhù míng de hǎi wān yòu jiā de wān lún wān
  
     bān jǐn yòu měi de hǎi 'ànhái yòu wēi 'é de gāo shānzài 'ōu zhōu shì chú liǎo ruì shì zhī wài zuì gāo de guó jiā bān quán jìng fēn shì lǎo de gāo yuánzhù míng de zhōng yāng gāo yuán sǒng bān zhèng zhōngyuē zhàn quán guó miàn de 60%, hǎi 600-700 zhōng yāng gāo yuán sān miàn bèi gāo shān juéběi shì kǎn lián shān màinán zhù zhe léi shāndōng de shān mài kāi zhōng gāo yuán 'ā gòng píng yuángāo yuán biān miàn huǎn huǎn yán shēn shì jiàn píng tǎnzuì hòu xiāo shī zài yáng yán 'àn guǒ jià chē yóu lǎn bān quán jìng shí yìng yǎn lián de shì zuò zuò bái xuě 'ái 'ái de shān fēng piàn piàn píng de qiū líng
  
     bān quán jìng zhì fēn wéi
  
     běi shān zhè yòu 'ōu zhōu zhù míng de niú shān màizhěng shān mài mián yán qiān jǐng huà nián lùn shān shàng shān xiàhái shì píng yuán dào chù shì piàn cuì yóu shì 'ā shān mài lián miánsōng tāo máng mánglín hǎi
  
     jǐn kào niú shān mài de kǎn lián shān màihǎi 2000 shàngběi lín máng máng biān de kāi wān shàng lín mào shèngjǐng shí fēn rén duō kuān guǎng de zhì jiān shuǐ qīng chè jìnggèng zhí de shì hái yòu shǔbù shèng shù de fēi cóng gāo chù qīng xiè 'ér xiàzhěng shuǐ mànwèi wéi zhuàng guānzhè shì zhòng yào de ruǎn chǎn yòu shì niú yáng biàn de gōng
  
     zhōng yāng gāo yuánwèi gāo yuán zhōng de shān màijiāng méi sài gāo yuán fēn wéi běi jiù gāo yuán nán xīn gāo yuánzài zhè kuài guǎng mào yínshān lǐng de shàngyòu zhe piàn zhù míng de gǎn lǎn shù lín dòng bǎo zhōng yāng gāo yuán de běi běi yáng yán 'àn fēn shì chóng shān jùn lǐng tiáo tiáo shān jiān gōng shǒu wěi xiāng jiē chē yòu shí zài shān jiān xíng shǐ bàn tiānhǎo xiàng hái zài yuán lái de wèi zhì
  
     ā gòng píng yuánā gòng píng yuán wèi niú shān mài dōng nán miàn de 'āi luó liú shì zhì chéng sān jiǎo xíng de zhuàng píng yuánzài zhì shí zhè céng shì piàn hào hàn de nèi húpōhòu lái shuǐ liú zhōng hǎimàn màn biàn chéng liǎo gān de ā gòng píng yuán cháng nián hòu rén shuǐ chōng pèi zhì féi bèi chēng wéi ráo defēng shuǐ bǎo ”, shì bān de tiān rán liáng cāngyòu shì zhòng yào de táogān jié děng shuǐ guǒ chǎn
  
     zhōng hǎi yán 'àn shān yán 'àn shān cóng dōng nán 'ān dào dōng běi jiā tài luó cháng 1500 gōng zǒu zài ruǎn de shā tān shànghǎi tiān yóu rén cháonán duān 'ān shān mài zhōng de shān jùn qiào gāo sǒnghǎi 3478 shì bàn dǎo de zuì gāo diǎnhào chēng bān mín de liáng”。 zhè zuò shān zhōng nián yún yān niǎo niǎoqīng fēng yōu yángshì shǔ xiāo xià de hǎo chù
  
     ān píng yuánwèi lāi shān mài 'ān shān mài zhī jiānzhè píng chuāntǎn tǎn dàng dàngguā 'ěr wéi 'ěr yóu wǎng dōng héng guàn zhěng píng yuánguàn gài zhe qiān wàn liáng tiányóu gāo sǒng de 'ān shān mài dǎng zhù liǎo lái hǎi yáng de shī rùn kōng suǒ zhè hòu gān zàoshèng xià jiāo yáng huǒ。  
  
     bān dǒu niú (corridadetoro)
  
     dǒu niú shì bān de guó cuìfēngmǐ quán guóxiǎng shì jièjìn guǎn cóng dòng bǎo de guān diǎn shàng kàn qián rén men duì cún zài zhēng dàn shì zuò wéi bān yòu de lǎo chuán tǒng hái shì bǎo liú dào xiàn zàibìng shòu dào hěn duō rén de huān yíngdǒu niú jié shì 3 yuè zhì 10 yuèdǒu niú jié měi féng zhōu zhōu xíng liǎng chǎng féng jié guó jiā qìng diǎn měi tiān dōukě guān shǎng
  
  
   shǐ
     jiǎn shǐ
  
     gōng yuán qián 9 shì kǎi 'ěr rén cóng zhōng 'ōu qiān gōng yuán qián 8 shì bàn dǎo xiān hòu zāo wài qīncháng shòu luó rén rén 'ěr rén de tǒng zhì bān rén wéi fǎn duì wài qīn lüè jìn xíng liǎo cháng dǒu zhēng, 1492 nián guāng yùn dòngde shèng , 1516 nián wáng 'ān wáng fěi shì de 'ér chá bān wén míng : luò jiā de wài sūn chéng lāi 'ángā gòng děng guó de wáng wèishì wéi luò shìjiàn liǎo 'ōu zhōu zuì zǎo de tǒng zhōng yāng wáng quán de gòng zhù lián bāng de guó jiāshí liù shì shì hǎi shàng qiáng guó hòu jiàn shuāi。 1837 nián suō bèi 'èr shì zài tōng guò jūn zhù xiàn de 'àn zhī hòu jiāng zhèng shì bìng wéi guó jiā , jué dìng yòng bān “ España” ( féi wéi ” ) mìng míng , jié shù liǎo jīng 300 duō nián de gòng zhù lián bāng shì
  1931 nián wáng cháo bèi tuī fānchéng gòng guó, 1936 nián chéng yóu rén mín zhèn xiàn lǐng dǎo de lián zhèng 。 1936 nián lǎng dòng nèi zhàn 1939 nián duó zhèng quán, 1947 nián xuān wéi jūn zhù guó
  
     1492 nián 10 yuè lún xiàn yìn qún dǎo hòu bān zhú jiàn chéng wéi hǎi shàng qiáng guózài 'ōuměifēi jūn yòu zhí mín 。 1588 nián jiàn duìbèi yīng guó kuìkāi shǐ shuāi luò。 1873 niánbào chǎn jiē mìngjiàn gòng guó。 1874 nián 12 yuè wáng cháo zài 1898 nián de měi zhàn zhēng zhōngshī zài měi zhōu tài de zuì hòu kuài zhí mín héng héng duō guān dǎo fěi bīnzài shì jiè zhàn zhōng bǎo chí zhōng 。 1931 nián 4 yuè wáng cháo bèi tuī fān 'èr gòng guó jiàn 。 1936 nián 2 yuè chéng yòu shè huì dǎng gòng chǎn dǎngshēn jiā de lián zhèng tóng nián 7 yuè lǎng dòng pàn luànjīng sān nián nèi zhàn 1939 nián 4 yuè duó zhèng quánshí xíng cái tǒng zhì 36 nián zhī jiǔ。 1943 nián 2 yuè guó jié jūn shì tóng méngcān jiā qīn zhàn zhēng。 1947 nián 7 yuè lǎng xuān bān wéi jūn zhù guó rèn zhōng shēn guó jiā yuán shǒu。 1966 nián 7 yuè dài guó wáng 'ā fāng suǒ shí sān shì zhī sūn 'ān · luò wéi chéng rén
  
     1975 nián 11 yuè lǎng bìng 'ān · luò shì dēng huī jūn zhù zhì。 1976 nián 7 yuèguó wáng rèn mìng yuán guó mín yùn dòng shū cháng 'ā · léi wéi shǒuxiàngkāi shǐ xiàng fāng huì mín zhù zhèng zhì guò
  
     shǐ qián shǐ
  
     zài bān xiàn zuì zǎo de rén lèi kǎo xué yuē zhuī dào gōng yuán qián sān wàn dào wàn niánxué rén lèi de shǐ qián yán huà wèiwǒ men gōng liǎo bàn dǎo shǐ qián wén míng de shēng huó chǎng jǐngzài bān xiàn de zuì zhòng yào de bāo kuòhēi dòng xué sōng líndòng xuédāng rán hái yòu zhù míng de 'ā 'ěr yán dòng
  
     kǎi 'ěr bān
  
     zuì xīn de lùn yán jiū rèn wéi rén shì cóng běi fēi lái dào bàn dǎo de men zhù yào dìng zài zhōng hǎi yán 'àn gèng wǎng nán de zài rén chuàng zào liǎo duō tóng de wén huàduì kǎo xué lái shuō yòu zhòng de de shǐ zhōng duì zhōng zuì zhòng yào de zhī yòu guò jìzǎi rén chēng men wéi 'ěr duō rén”。 men shì rén de luòzài guā 'ěr wéi 'ěr liú jiàn liǎo wén huà càn làn de wáng guó
  
     gōng yuán qián 1200 niánlái zhōng běi 'ōu de kǎi 'ěr rén cóng běi jìn bàn dǎojīn kǎi 'ěr rén shēn de rén tōng hūnbìng qiě kuò zhǎn dào zhěng bàn dǎo bàn dǎo shǐ shàng wéi wèi bèi rèn wài lái shì qīn de kǒng jiù shì rén zhù de běi shān shǐ shè huì xué jiā zhì jīn méi yòu nòng qīng rén de yuán rèn lín jìn mín zhī jiān zhǎo dào qīn yuán guān què yòu rén zài zhī jiān zhǎo dào liǎo gòng tóng diǎnxiàn zài wéi zhī dào de jiù shì shì shí fēn lǎo de mín
  
     féi jiā tài rén
  
     gōng yuán qián 1100 niánqiáng de háng hǎi mín féi rén zài bàn dǎo shàng jiàn liǎo zhí mín zhōng zuì zhòng yào de jiù shì jiā 'ěr jiù shì jīn tiān de jiā de tóng shí rén zài nán fāng zhōng hǎi yán 'àn què liǎo de tǒng zhì
  
     zhàn zhēng jiānjiā tài rén chèn zhàn lǐng liǎo bān de fēn men liú xià de zhù míng chéng shì bāo kuò zhè zhèng shìxīn jiā tài de
  
     luó rén rén
  
     luó rén zài zhàn zhēng zhōng bài liǎo jiā tài rén zhī hòu zhí mín kuò zhǎn dào liǎo bān bìng qiě hěn kuài zhàn lǐng zhěng bàn dǎozhù míng de màn yīng xióng shì jiù dàn shēng zài rén kàng luó rén qīn de guò chéng zhōngcóng bàn dǎo biàn zuò wéi wēi zhèn hǎi nèi de luó guó de bān shěngér cún zài bān shěng zài guó nèi wèi shí fēn zhòng yàoliǎng wèi luó huáng jiā nuò 'ā 'ān duō xué pài wěi de zhé xué jiā sài nèi dōushì zài zhè chū shēng de bān wán quán shōu liǎo luó wén huàbāo kuò dīng rén yóu tài jiào zhèng zhì jiā tíngzōng jiào luó de yán zài bàn dǎo shàng kāi shǐ shǐ yòngméi shì jīn tiān bǎo cún luó zuì wán zhěng de bān chéng shìzài sài wéi hái kàn dào luó de shuǐ cóng bàn kōng zhōng chuān yuè chéng shìbàn dǎo shàng chū xiàn liǎo tǒng de wén míng
  
     gōng yuán 409 niánqiáng hàn de mán qīn jiàn shuāi tuí de luó guóbìng gōng yuán 419 nián zài bàn dǎo jiàn liǎo de wáng guódìng tuō lāi duōdàn shì rén méi yòu duì bān wén míng de zhǎn zuò chū duō de gòng xiàn
  
     lín bān guāng zhàn zhēng
  
     rén de tǒng zhì chí dào liǎo gōng yuán 711 niándāng shí wàn lín zhàn shì héng kuà zhí luó tuó hǎi xiáyòng shǒu zhōng de wān dāo zhàn shèng liǎo céng lìng luó rén wén fēng sàng dǎn de shìyíng liǎo guā lāi zhàn jié nián zhī hòuā rén xíjuǎn zhěng bàn dǎo biàn chéng liǎo 'āi 'ěr guó shì páng de 'ā guó de fēnjiào zuòān guó”。 guó dài chēng zhī wéi shí”。 jìn guǎn bàn dǎo běi de kàng yùn dòng cóng wèi tíng zhǐ guògōng yuán shì dào shí shì lín guó de shì réng jiù lìng rén jīng tàn duàn gǒng bān zài zhè shí shōu liǎo càn làn de 'ā wén huàdàn shì zhú jiàn tuō liǎo shì de zhōng yāng tǒng zhì
  
     ā sān shì zuì zhōng bān biàn chéng liǎo de wáng cháozài de tǒng zhì xià bān yíng lái liǎo wén huà shàng de kōng qián fán róngchéng shì jiàn shè shāng pǐn jīng de dào liǎo cháng de jìn shèn zhì tuī dòng liǎo zhěng 'ōu zhōu de zhǎnā rén dài lái liǎo xuéshù xué tiān wén xué fāng miàn zuì xiān jìn de zhī shíbìng qiě zài bān de yīnyuèměi shùwén xuéjiàn zhù děng fāng miàn liú xià liǎo shēn de yìn ā 'ěr hǎn gōng biàn shì 'ā shù dēng fēng zào zhī zuòtóng shíā zài bān liú xià liǎo duō huìdāng shí zuì zhòng yào de chéng shì yòu lún sài wéi 'ěr duō yōng yòu shí wàn mín zuò xíng shū guǎn de 'ěr duō shì shí shì 'ōu zuì de chéng shì wén huà zhōng xīn
  
     rán 'érdào liǎo shí shì wáng jiān( 39 wáng de duàn nèi hòng shǐ lín guó fēn liè bài luòguāng yùn dòng yǎn lièběi fāng de guó wáng men jiē shèng dào liǎo shí shì zài bān de lín zhǐ shèng xià liǎo zuì hòu diǎn men yòu jiān chí liǎo jìn bǎi niánzhí dàotiān zhù jiào guó wángjiāng bìng liǎo wáng guó de bǎn
  
  
   chǎn
  2008 nián bān de shì jiè chǎn 37 chùzài suǒ yòu guó jiā zhōng míng liè
  
   'ěr duō shǐ zhōng xīn de 'ā lán gōng nèi huā yuán 'ěr jiào táng
   āi 'ěr xiū dào yuàn sài luó de guī 'ěr gōng yuán guī 'ěr gōng lóu 'ā 'ěr dòng
   sài wéi zhèn gāo jià yǐn shuǐ 'ā wáng guó shí jiào shèng - kǒng chéng zhèn
   ā wéi zhèn chéng wài jiào táng 'āi 'ěr de 'ěr shì jiàn zhù shǐ míng chéng tuō lāi duō jiā huò nài guó jiā gōng yuán
   sài léi zhèn sài wéi jiào táng 'ā 'ěr 'ěr yìn qún dǎo dàng 'àn guǎn chéng màn lāi xiū dào yuàn
   méi kǎo guā pèi de shèng huáng jiā xiū dào yuàn shèng - kǒng " cháo shèng zhī " duō guó jiā gōng yuán
   yòu chéng qiáng de kūn chéng lún de chóu jiāo shì chǎng sài luó de jiā tài luó yīnyuè tīng shèng yuàn
   shèng lán de yóu suǒ suǒ xiū dào yuàn bàn dǎo zhōng hǎi pén yán huà shù 'ā 'ěr de 'āi léi bǎo xué shǐ
   wéi dǎo jǐng guān guā de shèng tuō 'ěr 'ā 'ěr kǎo zhǐ jiā tài luó de wéi 'ěr luó shì jiào táng
   kǎo zhǐ 'āi 'ěr qiē de 'ěr de luó chéng qiáng 'ā lán 'āi wén huà jǐng guān
   wén xīng shí de zhù zòu de úbeda baeza


  Spain (Spanish: España (help·info), IPA: [es'paɲa]) or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España), is a country located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. The Spanish mainland is bordered to the south and east almost entirely by the Mediterranean Sea (except for a tiny land boundary with Gibraltar); to the north by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay; and to the west by the Atlantic Ocean and Portugal. Spanish territory also includes the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean, the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean off the African coast, and two autonomous cities in North Africa, Ceuta and Melilla, that border Morocco. With an area of 504,030 km², Spain is the second largest country in Western Europe (behind France) and with an average altitude of 650 m, the second highest country in Europe (behind Switzerland).
  
  Spain is a constitutional monarchy organised as a parliamentary democracy and has been a member of the European Union since 1986. It is a developed country with the eighth largest economy in the world and fifth largest in the EU, based on nominal GDP.
  
  Summary
  Spain is a key site when it comes to studying both the arrival of the first hominids recorded in Europe and the prehistoric stage of this continent. Under the Roman Empire, Hispania flourished and became one of the empire's most important regions. During the early Middle Age it came under Germanic rule. Later, nearly the entire peninsula came under Muslim rulers. Through a long process Christian kingdoms in the north gradually rolled back Muslim rule which was finally extinguished in 1492 as well as expelling or killing the Jews or forcing many to convert. That year Columbus reached the Americas, the beginnings of a global empire. Spain became the strongest kingdom in Europe in the 16th and first half of the 17th centuries but continued wars and other problems eventually led to a diminished status. In the middle decades of the 20th century it came under a dictatorship, under which it went through many years of stagnation and then a spectacular economic revival. Democracy was recovered in 1978 under the form of a constitutional monarchy. In 1986 it joined the European Union and has experienced an economic and cultural renaissance.
  
  Prehistory and pre-Roman peoples in the Iberian Peninsula
  
  Archeological research at Atapuerca indicates that the Iberian Peninsula was peopled more than a million years ago. Modern humans in the form of Cro-Magnons began arriving in the Iberian Peninsula through the Pyrenees some 35,000 years ago. The best known artifacts of these prehistoric human settlements are the famous paintings in the Altamira cave of Cantabria in northern Spain, which were created about 15,000 BCE. Furthermore, archeological evidence in places like Los Millares in Almería and in El Argar in Murcia suggests that developed cultures existed in the eastern part of the Iberian Peninsula during the late Neolithic and the Bronze Age.
  
  The two main historical peoples of the peninsula were the Iberians and the Celts, the former inhabiting the Mediterranean side from the northeast to the southwest, the latter inhabiting the Atlantic side, in the north and northwest part of the peninsula. In the inner part of the peninsula, where both groups were in contact, a mixed, distinctive, culture was present, known as Celtiberian. In addition, Basques occupied the western area of the Pyrenees mountains. Other ethnic groups existed along the southern coastal areas of present day Andalusia. Among these southern groups there grew the earliest urban culture in the Iberian Peninsula, that of the semi-mythical southern city of Tartessos (perhaps pre-1100 BC) near the location of present-day Cádiz. The flourishing trade in gold and silver between the people of Tartessos and Phoenicians and Greeks is documented in the history of Strabo and in the biblical book of king Solomon. Between about 500 BC and 300 BC, the seafaring Phoenicians and Greeks founded trading colonies all along the Spanish Mediterranean coast. Carthaginians briefly took control of much of the Mediterranean coast in the course of the Punic Wars, until they were eventually defeated and replaced by the Romans.
  
  Roman Empire and Germanic invasions
  
  During the Second Punic War, an expanding Roman Empire captured Carthaginian trading colonies along the Mediterranean coast (from roughly 210 BC to 205 BC), leading to eventual Roman control of nearly the entire Iberian Peninsula - a control which lasted over 500 years, bound together by law, language, and the Roman road. The base Celt and Iberian population remained in various stages of Romanisation, and local leaders were admitted into the Roman aristocratic class.
  
  The Romans improved existing cities, such as Lisbon (Olissis bona or 'good for Ulysses') and Tarragona (Tarraco), and established Zaragoza (Caesaraugusta), Mérida (Augusta Emerita), Valencia (Valentia), León ("Legio Septima"), Badajoz ("Pax Augusta"), and Palencia (Παλλαντία, "Pallas Ateneia"). The peninsula's economy expanded under Roman tutelage. Hispania served as a granary for the Roman market, and its harbors exported gold, wool, olive oil, and wine. Agricultural production increased with the introduction of irrigation projects, some of which remain in use. Emperors Trajan, Theodosius I, and the philosopher Seneca were born in Hispania. Christianity was introduced into Hispania in the first century CE and it became popular in the cities in the second century CE. Most of Spain's present languages and religion, and the basis of its laws, originate from this period.
  
  The first Germanic tribes to invade Hispania arrived in the 5th century, as the Roman Empire decayed. The Visigoths, Suebi, Vandals and Alans arrived in Spain by crossing the Pyrenees mountain range. The Romanized Visigoths entered Hispania in 415. After the conversion of their monarchy to Roman Catholicism, the Visigothic Kingdom eventually encompassed a great part of the Iberian Peninsula after conquering the disordered Suebic territories in the northwest and Byzantine territories in the southeast.
  
  Muslim Iberia
  
  In the 8th century, nearly all of the Iberian Peninsula was conquered (711-718) by mainly Berber Muslims (see Moors) from North Africa. These conquests were part of the expansion of the Umayyad Islamic Empire. Only a number of areas in the mountains to the north of the Iberian Peninsula managed to cling to their independence, occupying the areas roughly corresponding to modern Asturias, Navarre and Aragon.
  
  Interior of the Mezquita in Córdoba, a Muslim mosque until the Reconquest, after which it became a Christian cathedral.Under Islam, Christians and Jews were recognised as "peoples of the book", and were free to practice their religion, but faced a number of mandatory discriminations and penalties as dhimmis. Conversion to Islam proceeded at a steadily increasing pace. Following the mass conversions in the 10th and 11th centuries it is believed that Muslims came to outnumber Christians in the remaining Muslim controlled areas.
  
  The Muslim community in the Iberian peninsula was itself diverse and beset by social tensions. The Berber people of North Africa, who had provided the bulk of the invading armies, clashed with the Arab leadership from the Middle East. Over time, large Moorish populations became established, especially in the Guadalquivir River valley, the coastal plain of Valencia, and (towards the end of this period) in the mountainous region of Granada.
  
  Córdoba, the capital of the caliphate, was the largest, richest and most sophisticated city of medieval western Europe. Mediterranean trade and cultural exchange flourished. Muslims imported a rich intellectual tradition from the Middle East and North Africa. Muslim and Jewish scholars played a great part in reviving and expanding classical Greek learning in Western Europe. The Romanized cultures of the Iberian peninsula interacted with Muslim and Jewish cultures in complex ways, thus giving the region a distinctive culture. Outside the cities, where the vast majority lived, the land ownership system from Roman times remained largely intact as Muslim leaders rarely dispossessed landowners, and the introduction of new crops and techniques led to a remarkable expansion of agriculture.
  
  However, by the 11th century, Muslim holdings had fractured into rival Taifa kingdoms, allowing the small Christian states the opportunity to greatly enlarge their territories and consolidate their positions. The arrival of the North African Muslim ruling sects of the Almoravids and the Almohads restored unity upon Muslim holdings, with a stricter, less tolerant application of Islam, but ultimately, after some successes in invading the north, proved unable to resist the increasing military strength of the Christian states.
  
  
  Fall of Muslim rule and unification
  
  Equal partners: King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile, the Catholic Monarchs.The term Reconquista ("Reconquest") is used to describe the centuries-long period of expansion of Spain's Christian kingdoms; the Reconquista is viewed as beginning after the battle of Covadonga in 722. The Christian army victory over the Muslim forces lead to the creation of the Christian Kingdom of Asturias. Muslim armies had also moved north of the Pyrenees, but they were defeated at the Battle of Poitiers in France. Subsequently, they retreated to more secure positions south of the Pyrenees with a frontier marked by the Ebro and Duero rivers in Spain. As early as 739 Muslim forces were driven from Galicia, which was to host one of medieval Europe's holiest sites, Santiago de Compostela. A little later Frankish forces established Christian counties south of the Pyrenees; these areas were to grow into kingdoms, in the north-east and the western part of the Pyrenees. These territories included Navarre, Aragon and Catalonia.
  
  The breakup of Al-Andalus into the competing Taifa kingdoms helped the expanding Christian kingdoms. The capture of the central city of Toledo in 1085 largely completed the reconquest of the northern half of Spain. After a Muslim resurgence in the 12th century, the great Moorish strongholds in the south fell to Christian Spain in the 13th century—Córdoba in 1236 and Seville in 1248—leaving only the Muslim enclave of Granada as a tributary state in the south. Marinid invasions from north Africa in the 13th and 14th centuries failed to re-establish Muslim rule. Also in the 13th century, the kingdom of Aragon, still ruled by the Catalan count of Barcelona, expanded its reach across the Mediterranean to Sicily. Around this time the universities of Palencia (1212/1263) and Salamanca (1218/1254) were established; among the earliest in Europe. The Black Death of 1348 and 1349 devastated Spain.
  
  In 1469, the crowns of the Christian kingdoms of Castile and Aragon were united (even though both kingdoms kept a high degree of political and economical independence) by the marriage of Isabella and Ferdinand. In 1478 began the final stage of the conquest of Canary Islands and in 1492, these united kingdoms captured Granada, ending the last remnant of a 781-year presence of Islamic rule in the Iberian Peninsula. The year 1492 also marked the arrival in the New World of Christopher Columbus, during a voyage funded by Isabella. That same year, Spain's Jews were ordered to convert into the Catholicism or face expulsion from Spanish territories during the Spanish Inquisition.
  
  As Renaissance New Monarchs, Isabella and Ferdinand centralized royal power at the expense of local nobility, and the word España - whose root is the ancient name "Hispania" - began to be used to designate the whole of the two kingdoms. With their wide-ranging political, legal, religious and military reforms, Spain emerged as the first world power.
  
  Imperial Spain
  
  The unification of the kingdoms of Aragon, Castile, León, and Navarre laid the basis for modern Spain and the Spanish Empire. Spain became Europe's leading power throughout the 16th century and most of the 17th century, a position reinforced by trade and wealth from colonial possessions. Spain reached its apogee during the reigns of the first two Spanish Habsburgs, Charles I (1516–1556) and Philip II (1556–1598). Included in this period are the Italian Wars, the Dutch revolt, clashes with the Ottomans, the Anglo-Spanish war and war with France.
  
  The galleon became synonymous with the riches of the Spanish Empire.The Spanish Empire expanded to include most part of South and Central America, Mexico, southern and western portions of today's United States, the Philippines, Guam and the Mariana Islands in Eastern Asia, the Iberian peninsula (including the Portuguese Empire (from 1580), southern Italy, Sicily, cities in Northern Africa, as well as parts of modern Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. It was the first empire about which it was said that the sun did not set. This was an age of discovery, with daring explorations by sea and by land, the opening up of new trade routes across oceans, conquests and the beginnings of European colonialism. Along with the arrival of precious metals, spices, luxuries, and new agricultural plants, Spanish explorers and others brought back knowledge, playing a leading part in transforming the European understanding of the world.
  
  Of note was the cultural efflorescence now known as the Spanish Golden Age and the intellectual movement known as the School of Salamanca.
  
  In the 16th and 17th centuries, Spain was confronted by unrelenting challenges from all sides. Barbary pirates under the aegis of the rapidly growing Ottoman empire, disrupted life in many coastal areas through their slave raids and renewed the threat of an Islamic invasion. This at a time when Spain was often at war with France in Italy and elsewhere. Later the Protestant Reformation schism from the Catholic Church dragged the kingdom ever more deeply into the mire of religiously charged wars. The result was a country forced into ever expanding military efforts across Europe and in the Mediterranean.
  
  By the middle decades of a war and plague ridden 17th century Europe, the effects of the strain began to show. The Spanish Habsburgs had enmeshed the country in the continent wide religious-political conflicts. These conflicts drained it of resources and undermined the European economy generally. Spain managed to hold on to most of the scattered Habsburg empire, and help the imperial forces of the Holy Roman Empire reverse a large part of the advances made by Protestant forces, but it was finally forced to recognise the independence of Portugal - with its empire - and the Netherlands, and eventually began to surrender territories to France after the immensely destructive, Europe-wide Thirty Years War.
  
  During the latter half of the 17th century, Spain went into a gradual decline, however it maintained and enlarged its vast overseas empire, which remained intact until the 19th century.
  
  The decline culminated in a controversy over succession to the throne which consumed the first years of the 18th century. The War of Spanish Succession (1701–1714), a wide ranging international conflict combined with a civil war, cost Spain its European possessions and its position as one of the leading powers on the Continent.
  
  During this war, a new dynasty—the French Bourbons—was installed. Long united only by the Crown, a true Spanish state was established when the first Bourbon king Philip V of Spain united Castile and Aragon into a single state, abolishing many of the regional privileges (fueros).
  
  The 18th century saw a gradual recovery and an increase in prosperity through much of the empire. The new Bourbon monarchy drew on the French system of modernising the administration and the economy. Enlightenment ideas began to gain ground among some of the kingdom's elite and monarchy. Towards the end of the century trade finally began growing strongly. Military assistance for the rebellious British colonies in the American War of Independence improved Spain's international standing.
  
  Napoleonic rule and its consequences
  
  "The Second of May, 1808: The Charge of the Mamelukes", by Francisco Goya, 1814.In 1793, Spain went to war against the new French Republic, which had overthrown and executed its Bourbon king, Louis XVI. The war polarised the country in an apparent reaction against the gallicised elites. Defeated in the field, Spain made peace with France in 1795 and effectively became a client state of that country; the following year, it declared war against Britain and Portugal. A disastrous economic situation, along with other factors, led to the abdication of the Spanish king in favour of Napoleon's brother, Joseph Bonaparte.
  
  This new foreign monarch was regarded with scorn. On May 2, 1808, the people of Madrid began a nationalist uprising against the French army, marking the beginning of what is known to the Spanish as the War of Independence, and to the English as the Peninsular War. Napoleon was forced to intervene personally, defeating several badly-coordinated Spanish armies and forcing a British Army to retreat to Corunna. However, further military action by Spanish guerrillas and Wellington's Anglo-Portuguese army, combined with Napoleon's disastrous invasion of Russia, led to the ousting of the French from Spain in 1814, and the return of King Ferdinand VII.
  
  The French invasion proved disastrous for Spain's economy, and left a deeply divided country that was prone to political instability for more than a century. The power struggles of the early 19th century led to the loss of all of Spain's colonies in Latin America, with the exception of Cuba and Puerto Rico.
  
  Spanish-American War
  
  Amid the instability and economic crisis that afflicted Spain in the 19th century there arose nationalist movements in the Philippines and Cuba. Wars of independence ensued in those colonies and eventually the United States became involved. Despite the commitment and ability shown by some military units, they were so mismanaged by the highest levels of command that the Spanish-American war of 1898 was soon over. "El Desastre" (The Disaster), as the war became known in Spain, helped give impetus to the Generation of 98 who were already conducting much critical analysis concerning the country. It also weakened the stability that had been established during Alfonso XII's reign.
  
  20th century
  The 20th century brought little peace; Spain played a minor part in the scramble for Africa, with the colonisation of Western Sahara, Spanish Morocco and Equatorial Guinea. The heavy losses suffered during the Rif war in Morocco helped to undermine the monarchy. A period of authoritarian rule under General Miguel Primo de Rivera (1923-1931) ended with the establishment of the Second Spanish Republic. The Republic offered political autonomy to the Basque Country, Catalonia and Galicia and gave voting rights to women.
  
  "Guernica" by Pablo Picasso, 1937.The bitterly fought Spanish Civil War (1936-39) ensued. Three years later the Nationalist forces, led by General Francisco Franco, emerged victorious with the support of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. The Republican side was supported by the Soviet Union and Mexico, but it was not supported by the Western powers due to the British-led policy of Non-Intervention. The Spanish Civil War has been called the first battle of the Second World War; under Franco, Spain was neutral in the Second World War though sympathetic to the Axis.
  
  The only legal party under Franco's regime was the Falange española tradicionalista y de las JONS, formed in 1937; the party emphasised anti-Communism, Catholicism and nationalism. Nonetheless, since Franco's anti-democratic ideology was opposed to the idea of political parties, the new party was renamed officially a National Movement (Movimiento Nacional) in 1949.
  
  After World War II, Spain was politically and economically isolated, and was kept out of the United Nations until 1955, when due to the Cold War it became strategically important for the U.S. to foment a military presence on the Iberian peninsula, next to the Mediterranean Sea and the Strait of Gibraltar, in order to protect southern Europe. In the 1960s, Spain registered an unprecedented economic growth in what was called the Spanish miracle, which rapidly resumed the long interrupted transition towards a modern industrial economy with a thriving tourism sector and a high degree of human development.
  
  Upon the death of General Franco in November 1975, Prince Juan Carlos assumed the position of king and head of state. With the approval of the new Spanish Constitution of 1978 and the arrival of democracy, the State devolved autonomy to the regions and created an internal organization based on autonomous communities. In the Basque Country, moderate Basque nationalism coexisted with a radical nationalism supportive of the terrorist group ETA.
  
  On February 23, 1981, rebel elements among the security forces seized the Cortes and tried to impose a military-backed government. However, the great majority of the military forces remained loyal to King Juan Carlos, who used his personal authority and addressed the usurpers via national TV as commander in chief to put down the bloodless coup attempt.
  
  In 1982, the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) came to power, which represented the return to power of a leftist party after 43 years. In 1986, Spain joined the European Community (which was to become the European Union). The PSOE was replaced in government by the Partido Popular (PP) after the latter won the 1996 General Elections; at that point the PSOE had served almost 14 consecutive years in office.
  
  The Government of Spain has been involved in a long-running campaign against the terrorist organization ETA ("Basque Homeland and Freedom"), founded in 1959 in opposition to Franco and dedicated to promoting Basque independence through violent means. They consider themselves a guerrilla organization while they are listed as a terrorist organization by both the European Union and the United States on their respective watchlists. The current nationalist-led Basque Autonomous government does not endorse ETA's nationalist violence, which has caused over 800 deaths in the past 40 years.
  
  21st century
  On January 1, 2002, Spain terminated its historic peseta currency and replaced it with the euro, which has become its national currency shared with 15 other countries from the Eurozone. This culminated the first phase of a period of economic growth, which has kept the Spanish economy growing well over the EU average, but concerns are growing that the extraordinary property boom and high foreign trade deficits of recent years may bring this to an end.
  
  On March 11, 2004, a series of bombs exploded in commuter trains in Madrid, Spain. The bombings were claimed by al Qaeda, whereas after a five months trial in 2007 it was concluded that the bombings were perpetrated by a local Islamist militant group inspired by al-Qaeda, but without direct links to that organisation. The bombings killed 191 people and wounded more than 1800, and it has been claimed that the intention of the perpetrators was to influence the outcome of the Spanish general election, held three days later on March 14. Although initial suspicions of responsibility for the bombings focused on the Basque group ETA, evidence soon emerged indicating possible Islamist involvement. Because of the proximity of the election, the issue of responsibility quickly became a source of political controversy, with the main competing parties PP and PSOE crossing accusations over the handling of the aftermath. A couple of days later, at the March 14 elections, PSOE, led by José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, obtained a relative majority, enough to form the new cabinet with Rodríguez Zapatero as the new Presidente del Gobierno or prime minister of Spain, thus succeeding the former PP administration.
  
  Politics
  
  Spanish Government
  
  Spain is a constitutional monarchy, with a hereditary monarch and a bicameral parliament, the Cortes Generales. The executive branch consists of a Council of Ministers presided over by the President of Government (comparable to a prime minister), proposed by the monarch and elected by the National Assembly following legislative elections.
  
  The legislative branch is made up of the Congress of Deputies (Congreso de los Diputados) with 350 members, elected by popular vote on block lists by proportional representation to serve four-year terms, and a Senate (Senado) with 259 seats of which 208 are directly elected by popular vote and the other 51 appointed by the regional legislatures to also serve four-year terms.
  
  Chief of State
  King Juan Carlos I, since November 22, 1975
  Head of Government
  President of the Government: José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, elected 14 March 2004.
  First Vice President and Minister of Presidency: María Teresa Fernández de la Vega.
  Second Vice President and Minister of Economy and Finance: Pedro Solbes.
  Cabinet
  Council of Ministers (Spanish Consejo de Ministros) designated by the president.
  
  José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Prime Minister of Spain.The Spanish nation is organizationally composed in the form of called Estado de las Autonomías ("State of Autonomies"); it is one of the most decentralized countries in Europe, along with Switzerland, Germany and Belgium; for example, all Autonomous Communities have their own elected parliaments, governments, public administrations, budgets, and resources; therefore, health and education systems among others are managed regionally, besides, the Basque Country and Navarre also manage their own public finances based on foral provisions. In Catalonia and the Basque Country, a full fledged autonomous police corps replaces some of the State police functions (see Mossos d'Esquadra and Ertzaintza).
  
  See also: List of Spanish monarchs and Monarchs of Spain family tree
  
  Spanish Constitution
  
  The Spanish Constitution of 1978 is the culmination of the Spanish transition to democracy.
  
  The constitutional history of Spain dates back to the constitution of 1812. After the death of Francisco Franco in 1975, a general election in 1977 convened the Constituent Cortes (the Spanish Parliament, in its capacity as a constitutional assembly) for the purpose of drafting and approving the constitution of 1978.
  
  As a result, Spain is now composed of 17 autonomous communities and two autonomous cities with varying degrees of autonomy thanks to its Constitution, which nevertheless explicitly states the indivisible unity of the Spanish nation as well as that Spain has today no official religion but all are free to practice and believe as they wish.
  
  Foreign relations of Spain
  
  After the return of democracy following the death of Franco in 1975, Spain's foreign policy priorities were to break out of the diplomatic isolation of the Franco years and expand diplomatic relations, enter the European Community, and define security relations with the West.
  
  As a member of NATO since 1982, Spain has established itself as a major participant in multilateral international security activities. Spain's EU membership represents an important part of its foreign policy. Even on many international issues beyond western Europe, Spain prefers to coordinate its efforts with its EU partners through the European political cooperation mechanisms.
  
  With the normalization of diplomatic relations with North Korea in 2001, Spain completed the process of universalizing its diplomatic relations.
  
  Spain has maintained its special identification with Latin America. Its policy emphasizes the concept of an Iberoamerican community, essentially the renewal of the historically liberal concept of hispanoamericanismo (or hispanism as it is often referred to in English), which has sought to link the Iberian peninsula with Latin America through language, commerce, history and culture. Spain has been an effective example of transition from dictatorship to democracy, as shown in the many trips that Spain's King and Prime Ministers have made to the region.
  
  Territorial disputes
  
  Territory claimed by Spain
  There is a territorial dispute with the United Kingdom over Gibraltar, a 6 square km Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom in the southernmost part of the Iberian Peninsula which was conquered by Britain from Spain in 1704 during the War of the Spanish Succession, along with the Spanish island of Minorca (which had also been invaded but was reconquered in 1782 and finally ceded back to Spain in 1802 by the Treaty of Amiens).
  
  The legal situation was regularized in 1713 by the Treaty of Utrecht, in which Spain ceded the territory in perpetuity to the British Crown.
  
  Spain has called for the return of Gibraltar. The overwhelming majority of Gibraltarians strongly oppose this, along with any proposal of shared sovereignty. UN resolutions call on the United Kingdom and Spain, both EU members, to reach an agreement over the status of Gibraltar.
  
  Spanish territories claimed by other countries
  Morocco claims the Spanish cities of Ceuta and Melilla and some isles plazas de soberanía off the northern coast of Africa. Portugal does not recognise Spain's sovereignty over the territory of Olivenza / Olivença.
  
  Administrative divisions
  
  GaliciaNavarreMadridLa RiojaAragonCataloniaValenciaCastilla
  La ManchaExtremaduraPortugalCastilla
  y LeónAsturiasCantabriaBasque CountryMurciaAndalusiaCeutaMelillaFranceBalearic
  IslandsCanary
  IslandsMediterranean SeaBay of BiscayAtlantic
  OceanAndorraAtlantic
  Ocean
  
  Spain is politically organized into 17 Autonomous Communities (comunidades autónomas) and 2 autonomous cities (ciudades autónomas) - Ceuta and Melilla.
  
  Administratively Spain also comprises fifty provinces. Seven autonomous communities are composed of only one province: Asturias, Balearic Islands, Cantabria, La Rioja, Madrid, Murcia, and Navarre.
  
  Historically, some provinces are also divided into comarcas (roughly equivalent to a US "county" or an English district). The lowest administrative division of Spain is the municipality (municipio).
  
  See also: Comarcas of Spain and List of municipalities of Spain
  
  Geography
  
  At 194,884 mi² (504,782 km²), Spain is the world's 51st-largest country. It is some 47,000 km² smaller than France and 81,000 km² larger than the U.S. state of California.
  
  On the west, Spain borders Portugal, on the south, it borders Gibraltar (a British overseas territory) and Morocco, through its cities in North Africa (Ceuta and Melilla). On the northeast, along the Pyrenees mountain range, it borders France and the tiny principality of Andorra. Spain also includes the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea, the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean and a number of uninhabited islands on the Mediterranean side of the strait of Gibraltar, known as Plazas de soberanía, such as the Chafarine islands, the isle of Alborán, the "rocks" (peñones) of Vélez and Alhucemas, and the tiny Isla Perejil. Along the Pyrenees in Catalonia, a small exclave town called Llívia is surrounded by France.
  
  Mainland Spain is dominated by high plateaus and mountain ranges, such as the Sierra Nevada. Running from these heights are several major rivers such as the Tagus, the Ebro, the Duero, the Guadiana and the Guadalquivir. Alluvial plains are found along the coast, the largest of which is that of the Guadalquivir in Andalusia.
  
  Climate
  
  Spanish climatic areasDue to Spain's geographical situation and orographic conditions, the climate is extremely diverse; it can be roughly divided into three areas:
  
  A Continental Mediterranean climate in the inland areas of the Peninsula (largest city, Madrid).
  A Mediterranean climate region extends from the Andalusian plain along the southern and eastern coasts up to the Pyrenees, on the seaward side of the mountain ranges that run near the coast (largest city, Barcelona).
  An Oceanic climate in Galicia and the coastal strip near the Bay of Biscay (largest city, Bilbao). This area is often called Green Spain.
  
  Military of Spain
  
  The armed forces of Spain are known as the Spanish Armed Forces (Spanish: Fuerzas Armadas Españolas). Their Commander-in-Chief is the King of Spain, Juan Carlos I.
  
  The Spanish Armed Forces are divided into four branches:
  
  Army (Ejército de Tierra)
  Navy (Armada)
  Air Force (Ejército del Aire)
  Guardia Civil (Military police) which serves for the most part as a rural and general purpose police force.
  
  Economy
  
  According to the World Bank, Spain's economy is the eighth largest worldwide and the fifth largest in Europe. As of 2007, absolute GDP was valued at $1.362 trillion according to the CIA Factbook, (see List of countries by GDP (nominal)). The per capita PPP is estimated at $33,700 (2007), ahead of G7 countries like Italy and placing Spain at a similar per capita basis as France or Japan (both with an 2007 estimated at $33,800). The Spanish economy grew 3.8% in 2007 outpacing all G7 members and all the big EU economies for the 3rd consecutive year.
  
  The centre-right government of former prime minister José María Aznar worked successfully to gain admission to the group of countries launching the euro in 1999. Unemployment stood at 7.6% in October 2006, a rate that compares favorably to many other European countries, and which is a marked improvement over rates that exceeded 20% in the early 1990s. Perennial weak points of Spain's economy include high inflation, a large underground economy, and an education system which OECD reports place among the poorest for developed countries, together with the United States and UK. Nevertheless, it is expected that the Spanish economy will continue growing above the EU average based on the strengthening of industry, the growth of the global economy and increasing trade with Latin America and Asia.
  
  The Spanish economy is credited for having avoided the virtual zero growth rate of some of its largest partners in the EU. In fact, the country's economy has created more than half of all the new jobs in the European Union over the five years ending 2005. The Spanish economy has thus been regarded lately as one of the most dynamic within the EU, attracting significant amounts of foreign investment. During the last four decades the Spanish tourism industry has grown to become the second biggest in the world, worth approximately 40 billion Euros (approx. 5% of GDP) in 2006 More recently, the Spanish economy has benefited greatly from the global real estate boom, with construction representing 16% of GDP and 12% of employment. According to calculations by the German newspaper Die Welt, Spain is on pace to overtake countries like Germany in per capita income by 2011. However, the downside of the real estate boom has been a corresponding rise in the levels of personal debt; as prospective homeowners struggle to meet asking prices, the average level of household debt has tripled in less than a decade. Among lower income groups, the median ratio of indebtedness to income was 125% in 2005.
  
  Demographics
  
  Geographical distribution of the Spanish population in 2007.In 2007 Spain officially reached 45.2 million people registered at the Padrón municipal, an official record analogous to the British Register office. Spain's population density, at 89.6/km² (231/sq. mile), is lower than that of most Western European countries and its distribution along the country is very unequal. With the exception of the region surrounding the capital, Madrid, the most populated areas lie around the coast.
  
  The population of Spain doubled during the twentieth century, due to the spectacular demographic boom by the 1960s and early 1970s. The pattern of growth was extremely uneven due to large-scale internal migration from the rural interior to the industrial cities during the 60s and 70s. No fewer than eleven of Spain's fifty provinces saw an absolute decline in population over the century. Then, after the birth rate plunged in the 80s and Spain's population became stalled, a new population increase started based initially in the return of many Spanish who emigrated to other European countries during the 70s and, more recently, it has been boosted by the large figures of foreign immigrants, mostly from Latin America (38.75%), Eastern Europe (16.33%), North Africa (14.99%) and Sub-Saharan Africa (4.08%). In 2005, Spain instituted a 3-month amnesty program through which certain hitherto undocumented aliens were granted legal residency. Also some important pockets of population coming from other countries in the European Union are found (20.77% of the foreign residents), specially along the Mediterranean costas and Balearic islands, where many choose to live their retirement or even telework. These are mostly English, French, German, and Dutch from fellow EU countries and, from outside the EU, Norwegian.
  
  Immigration in Spain
  
  According to the Spanish government there were 4.5 million foreign residents in Spain in 2007; independent estimates put the figure at 4.8 million people, or 11% of the total population (Red Cross, World Disasters Report 2006). According to residence permit data for 2005, about 500,000 were Moroccan, another 500,000 were Ecuadorian, more than 200,000 were Romanian, and 260,000 were Colombian. Other important foreign communities are British (8.09%), French (8.03%), Argentine (6.10%), German (5.58%) and Bolivian (2.63%). In 2005, a regularisation programme increased the legal immigrant population by 700,000 people. Since 2000, Spain has experienced high population growth as a result of immigration flows, despite a birth rate that is only half the replacement level. This sudden and ongoing inflow of immigrants, particularly those arriving clandestinely by sea, has caused noticeable social tension.
  
  Based on 2004 figures, within the EU Spain has the second highest immigration rate in percentage terms (after Cyprus), but by a great margin the highest in actual numbers of immigrants.
  
  There are a number of reasons to explain the high level of immigration, including Spain's cultural ties with Latin America, its geographical position, the porosity of its borders, the large size of its underground economy and the strength of the agricultural and construction sectors which demand more low cost labour than can be offered by the national workforce. Another statistically significant factor is the large number of residents of the EU origin typically retiring to Spain's Mediterranean coast. In fact, Spain has been Europe's largest absorber of migrants for the past six years, with its immigrant population increasing fourfold as 2.8 million people have arrived. According to the Financial Times, Spain is the most favoured destination for West Europeans considering a move from their own country and seeking jobs elsewhere in the EU. (see Immigration to Spain).
  
  Minority groups
  Spain has a number of descendants of populations from former colonies (especially Equatorial Guinea) and immigrants from several Sub-Saharan and Caribbean countries have been recently settling in Spain. There are also sizeable numbers of Asian immigrants, most of whom are of Chinese, Filipino, Middle Eastern, Pakistani and Indian origins; the population of Spaniards of Latin American descent is sizeable as well and a fast growing segment. Other growing groups are Britons (761,000 in 2006), Germans and other immigrants from western and Eastern Europe.
  
  Jewish emigration to Spain is primarily the result of three events: after the 19th century, some Jews established themselves in Spain as a result of migration from what was formerly Spanish Morocco, the flight of Jews escaping from Nazi repression, and immigration from Argentina. Spanish law allows Sephardi Jews to claim Spanish citizenship.
  
  The arrival of the Gitanos (Gypsies), a Roma people group, began in the 16th century.
  
  Most populous urban regions
  Madrid 5,943,041
  Barcelona 5,327,872
  Valencia 1,623,724
  Seville 1,317,098
  Málaga 1,074,074
  Bilbao 946,829
  
  Identities
  
  Peoples
  
  The Spanish Constitution of 1978, in its second article, recognises historic entities ("nationalities", a carefully chosen word in order to avoid the more politically charged "nations") and regions, within the context of the Spanish nation. For some people, Spain's identity consists more of an overlap of different regional identities than of a sole Spanish identity. Indeed, some of the regional identities may even conflict with the Spanish one. Distinct ethnic groups within Spain include the Basques, Catalans, and Galicians.
  
  It is this last feature of "shared identity" between the more local level or Autonomous Community and the Spanish level which makes the identity question in Spain complex and far from univocal.
  
  Languages
  
  The languages of Spain (simplified) Spanish (74%), official, spoken in all the territory
  
   Catalan (17%), co-official, except in La Franja and Carxe
  
   Basque (2%), co-official, in Basque Country and Navarre
  
   Galician (7%), co-official, except in Asturias and Castile and Leon Asturian, unofficial, but adopted as co-official in some municipalities of Asturias
  
   Extremaduran, unofficial
  
   Aragonese, unofficial
  
   Aranese, co-official (dialect of Occitan)
  .Spanish (español or castellano), also known as Castilian, is the only language with official status nationwide. Other languages have been declared co-official, along with Spanish, in (some of) their constituent communities where they are spoken:
  
  Aranese (aranés) (a variant of Occitan), in Catalonia;
  Basque (euskera) in the Basque Country and Navarre;
  Catalan (català) in Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and in the Valencian Community, known in the latter officially as Valencian;
  Galician (galego) in Galicia.
  
  Spain's legacy: a map of the Hispanophone world.There are also some other surviving Romance minority languages such as Astur-Leonese (which includes Asturian, Leonese, Extremaduran and Cantabrian) and Aragonese. Asturian (asturianu) is "protected" in Asturias and Aragonese is vaguely recognized in Aragon. But unlike Aranese, Basque, Catalan/Valencian and Galician, they do not have any official status. This might be due to their very small number of speakers, a less significant written tradition (in comparison to Catalan or Galician) and lower self-awareness of their speakers which traditionally meant lack of strong popular demand for their recognition in the regions in which they are spoken. In the North African Spanish city of Melilla, Tarifit is spoken by an important part of the population.
  
  In the tourist areas of the Mediterranean coast and the islands, English and German are widely spoken by tourists, foreign residents, and tourism workers.
  
  Religion
  
  Spain religiosity
  religion percent
  Christianity   76%
  Irreligion / others   19%
  Islam   2.3%
  Judaism   0.1%
  Others   1.7%
  
  Although Chapter 2 of the Constitution states that no religion shall have a state character, Roman Catholicism is the main religion in the country. About 76% of Spaniards identify themselves as Catholics, about 2% identify with another religious faith, and about 19% identify themselves as non-religious. A study conducted in October 2006 by the Spanish Centre of Sociological Investigations shows that of the 76% of Spaniards who identify themselves as Catholics or with another religious faith, 54% hardly ever or never go to church, 15% go to church a few times per year, 10% a few times per month and 19% attend church every Sunday or multiple times per week. About 22% of the entire Spanish population attends religious services at least once per month.
  
  A view of the Barcelona Cathedral.Evidence of the secular nature of contemporary Spain can be seen in the widespread support for the legalisation of same-sex marriage in Spain — over 66% of Spaniards support gay marriage according to a 2004 study by the Centre of Sociological Investigations. Indeed, in June 2005 a bill was passed by 187 votes to 147 to allow gay marriage, making Spain the third country in the European Union to allow same-sex couples to marry after Belgium and the Netherlands.
  
  Protestant denominations are also present, all of them with less than 50,000 members. Evangelism has been better received among Gypsies than among the general population; pastors have integrated flamenco music in their liturgy. Taken together, all self-described "Evangelicals" slightly surpass Jehovah's Witnesses (105,000) in number. While not Protestants, about 35,000 residents of Spain are members of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons).
  
  The recent waves of immigration have led to an increasing number of Muslims, who have about 1 million members. Muslims had not lived in Spain for centuries; however, colonial expansion in Northern and Western Africa gave some number of residents in the Spanish Morocco and the Western Sahara full citizenship. Presently, Islam is the second largest religion in Spain, accounting for approximately 2.5% of the total population.
  
  Along with these waves of immigration, a significant number of Latin American people, who tend to be strong Catholic practitioners, have helped the Catholic Church to recover.
  
  Judaism was practically non-existent until the 19th century, when Jews were again permitted to enter the country. Currently there are around 62,000 Jews in Spain, most arrivals in the past century and some descendants of Spanish Jews and accounting for less than 1% of the total number of inhabitants. Spain is believed to have been about 8% Jewish on the eve of the Spanish Inquisition.
  
  Further information: History of the Jews in Spain
  
  Culture
  
  Spain is known for its culturally diverse heritage, having been influenced by many nations and peoples throughout its history. Spanish culture has its origins in the Iberian, Celtiberian, Latin, Visigothic, Roman Catholic, and Islamic cultures. The definition of a national Spanish culture has been characterized by tension between the centralized state (dominated in recent centuries by Castile) and numerous regions and minority peoples. In addition, the history of the nation and its Mediterranean and Atlantic environment have played strong roles in shaping its culture.
  
  After Italy, Spain is the country with the second highest number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the world, with a total of 40.
  
  Education in Spain
  
  State Education in Spain is free and compulsory from the age of 6 to 16. The current education system is called LOGSE (Ley de Ordenación General del Sistema Educativo).
  
  Spanish Academy
  
  The Real Academia Española (Spanish for "Royal Spanish Academy"; RAE) is the institution responsible for regulating the Spanish language. It is based in Madrid, but is affiliated with national language academies in 21 Spanish-speaking nations through the Association of Spanish Language Academies. Its emblem is a fiery crucible, and its motto is Limpia, fija y da esplendor ("It cleans, sets, and gives splendor").
  
  Spanish art
  
  Spanish art is an important and influential type of art in Europe. Spanish art is the name given to the artistic disciplines and works developed in Spain throughout time, and those by Spanish authors world-wide. Due to historical, geographical and generational diversity, Spanish art has known a great number of influences. The Moorish heritage in Spain, especially in Andalusia, is still evident today in cities like Córdoba, Seville, and Granada. European influences include Italy, Germany and France, especially during the Baroque and Neoclassical periods.
  
  Spanish literature
  
  The Cantar de Mio Cid is the oldest preserved Spanish literature known as "cantar de gesta".Spanish literature is the name given to the literary works written in Spain throughout time, and those by Spanish authors world-wide. Due to historic, geographic and generational diversity, Spanish literature has known a great number of influences and it is very diverse. Some major movements can be identified within it.
  
  
  Spanish architecture
  
  A view of the Baroque architecture of the Royal Palace of Madrid.Spanish architecture refers to architecture carried out during any era in what is now modern-day Spain, and by Spanish architects worldwide. The term includes buildings within the current geographical limits of Spain before this name was given to those territories (whether they were called Hispania, Al-Andalus, or were formed of several Christian kingdoms). Due to its historical and geographical diversity, Spanish architecture has drawn from a host of influences.
  
  For example, Córdoba was established as the cultural Capital of its time under the Umayyad dynasty. Simultaneously, the Christian kingdoms gradually emerged and developed their own styles, at first mostly isolated from European architectural influences, and later integrated into Romanesque and Gothic streams, they reached an extraordinary peak with numerous samples along the whole territory. The Mudéjar style, from the 12th to 17th centuries, was characterised by the blending of cultural European and Arabic influences.
  
  The arrival of Modernism in the academic arena produced figures such as Gaudí and much of the architecture of the twentieth century. The International style was led by groups like GATEPAC. Spain is currently experiencing a revolution in contemporary architecture and Spanish architects like Rafael Moneo, Santiago Calatrava, Ricardo Bofill as well as many others have gained worldwide renown.
  
  Music of Spain
  
  Spanish music is often considered abroad to be synonymous with flamenco, an Andalusian musical genre, which, contrary to popular belief, is not widespread outside that region. Various regional styles of folk music abound in Aragon, Catalonia, Valencia, Castile, the Basque Country, Galicia and Asturias. Pop, rock, hip hop and heavy metal are also popular.
  
  Cinema of Spain
  
  In recent years, Spanish cinema has achieved high marks of recognition as a result of its creative and technical excellence. In the long history of Spanish cinema, the great filmmaker Luis Buñuel was the first to achieve universal recognition, followed by Pedro Almodóvar in the 1980s. Spanish cinema has also seen international success over the years with films by directors like Segundo de Chomón, Florián Rey, Luis García Berlanga, Carlos Saura, Julio Medem and Alejandro Amenábar.
  
  A type of Spanish cuisine known as "Tapa de calamares".
  Spanish cuisine
  
  Spanish cuisine consists of a great variety of dishes which stem from differences in geography, culture and climate. It is heavily influenced by seafood available from the waters that surround the country, and reflects the country's deep Mediterranean roots. Spain's extensive history with many cultural influences has led to a unique cuisine.
  
  Sports in Spain
  
  Sport in Spain has been dominated by football since the early 20th century. Basketball, tennis, cycling, handball, motorcycling and, lately, Formula 1 are also important due to presence of Spanish champions in all these disciplines. Today, Spain is a major world sports power, especially since the 1992 Summer Olympics that were hosted in Barcelona and promoted a great variety of sports in the country. The tourism industry has led to an improvement in sports infrastructure, especially for water sports, golf and skiing.
  
  Public holidays in Spain
  
  Public holidays celebrated in Spain include a mix of religious (Roman Catholic), national and regional observances. Each municipality is allowed to declare a maximum of 14 public holidays per year; up to nine of these are chosen by the national government and at least two are chosen locally.
  
  International rankings
  Reporters Without Borders world-wide press freedom index 2007: Rank 33 out of 169 countries.
  The Economist Intelligence Units: Rank 10 out of 111 countries (ahead of countries like the United States of America, the United Kingdom, and France)
  Nation Master's list by economic importance: Rank 9 of 25 countries, only surpassed by G-8 members.
  Nation Master's list by technological achievement: Rank 18 of 68 countries.
  Gallery of Images The Sagrada Família by night, Barcelona
  Burgos Cathedral
   The Cathedral of Seville
   The Alhambra, Granada
   Roman Aqueduct of Segovia
  
  The Sanctuary of Santa María Magdalena in Novelda
   Monasterio de El Escorial
   Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
   Antequera, in Málaga province
   The Maspalomas Dunes, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands
  
  Arán valley, Lleida
   The Pyrenees
 

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