Spain

UK /speɪn/

Official name
Reino de España (Kingdom of Spain)
Capital
Madrid
Population estimate (2015)
46·12 million
Internet domain extension
.es
Currency
The euro (EUR), which consists of 100 cents, has been in circulation since 1 January 2002.
Territory
Spain is bounded in the north by the Bay of Biscay, France and Andorra, east and south by the Mediterranean and the Straits of Gibraltar, south-west by the Atlantic Ocean and west by Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean.
Languages
At the last linguistic census (2011) Catalan (an official EU language since 1990) was spoken in Catalonia by 73·2% of people and understood by 95·1%. Galician, a language very close to Portuguese, was understood in 2007 by 98·0% of people in Galicia aged 15 and over; Basque by a significant and increasing minority. It is estimated that one-third of all Spaniards speaks one of the other three official languages as well as standard Castilian.
Source: The Statesman's Yearbook 2018. Palgrave Macmillan, London
Synonyms and related words
Specific countries in the dictionary
Afghanistan
Albania
Algeria

单词	spain
释义	Spain UK /speɪn/ © Getty Images / kosmozoo Official name Reino de España (Kingdom of Spain) Capital Madrid Population estimate (2015) 46·12 million Internet domain extension .es Currency The euro (EUR), which consists of 100 cents, has been in circulation since 1 January 2002. Territory Spain is bounded in the north by the Bay of Biscay, France and Andorra, east and south by the Mediterranean and the Straits of Gibraltar, south-west by the Atlantic Ocean and west by Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean. Languages At the last linguistic census (2011) Catalan (an official EU language since 1990) was spoken in Catalonia by 73·2% of people and understood by 95·1%. Galician, a language very close to Portuguese, was understood in 2007 by 98·0% of people in Galicia aged 15 and over; Basque by a significant and increasing minority. It is estimated that one-third of all Spaniards speaks one of the other three official languages as well as standard Castilian. Source: The Statesman's Yearbook 2018. Palgrave Macmillan, London Synonyms and related words Specific countries in the dictionary Afghanistan Albania Algeria Spain US /speɪn/ © Getty Images / kosmozoo Official name Reino de España (Kingdom of Spain) Capital Madrid Population estimate (2015) 46·12 million Internet domain extension .es Currency The euro (EUR), which consists of 100 cents, has been in circulation since 1 January 2002. Territory Spain is bounded in the north by the Bay of Biscay, France and Andorra, east and south by the Mediterranean and the Straits of Gibraltar, south-west by the Atlantic Ocean and west by Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean. Languages At the last linguistic census (2011) Catalan (an official EU language since 1990) was spoken in Catalonia by 73·2% of people and understood by 95·1%. Galician, a language very close to Portuguese, was understood in 2007 by 98·0% of people in Galicia aged 15 and over; Basque by a significant and increasing minority. It is estimated that one-third of all Spaniards speaks one of the other three official languages as well as standard Castilian. Source: The Statesman's Yearbook 2018. Palgrave Macmillan, London Synonyms and related words Specific countries in the dictionary Afghanistan Albania Algeria
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