Spain

Reino de España Kingdom of Spain


Flag	Coat of arms

Motto: "Plus Ultra" (Latin)
"Further Beyond"
Anthem: "Marcha Real" (Spanish)
"Royal March"

Capital (and largest city)		Madrid 40°26′N, 3°42′W
Official languages		Spanish
Recognised regional languages		Aranese, Basque, Catalan/Valencian and Galician
Ethnic groups		89% Spanish, 11% minority groups
Demonym		Spanish, Spaniard
Government		Parliamentary democracy and Constitutional monarchy
-	Monarch	King Juan Carlos I
-	President of the Government	José L. Rodríguez Zapatero
Formation		15th century
-	Unification	1469
-	Dynastic union	1516
-	de facto	1716
-	de jure	1812
EU accession		January 1, 1986

Area
-	Total	504,030 km² (51st) 195,364 sq mi
-	Water (%)	1.04
Population
-	2007 estimate	45,200,737(28th)
-	Density	90 people/km² (106th) 231/sq mi
GDP (PPP)		2007^[2] estimate
-	Total	$1.310 trillion (11th)
-	Per capita	$33,700 (2007) (27th)
GDP (nominal)		2007^[3] estimate
-	Total	$1.439 trillion (8th)
-	Per capita	$31,471 (2007) (26th)
Gini (2005)		32^[4]
HDI (2005)		0.949 (high) (13th)
Currency		Euro (€) ³ (`EUR`)
Time zone		CET⁴ (UTC+1)
-	Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Internet TLD		.es, .cat⁵
Calling code		+34

Spain [speɪn] (help·info) (Spanish: España?·i, IPA: [es'paɲa]) or the Kingdom of Spain (Spanish: Reino de España), is a country located mostly 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 small 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 (after France) and with an average altitude of 650 m, the second highest country in Europe (after Switzerland).

Spain is a constitutional monarchy organised as a parliamentary democracy and has been a member of the European Union since 1986, and NATO since 1982. It is a developed country with the eighth largest economy in the world and fifth largest in the EU, based on nominal GDP.