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Road Traffic:right side
Electricity:
Voltage:230V
Frequency:50 Hz
Plug types:C, F,
TV Systems:
System:PAL B / PAL G
DVD-Region: 2
Geography
Bordering countries:
Location:
Southwestern Europe, bordering the Bay of Biscay, Mediterranean Sea, North Atlantic Ocean, and Pyrenees Mountains, southwest of France
Area:
total: 504,782 sq km
land: 499,542 sq km
water: 5,240 sq km
Climate:
temperate; clear, hot summers in interior, more moderate and cloudy along coast; cloudy, cold winters in interior, partly cloudy and cool along coast
Terrain:
large, flat to dissected plateau surrounded by rugged hills; Pyrenees in north
Economy
GDP:
$1.378 trillion (2008 est.)
$1.36 trillion (2007)
$1.337 trillion (2006)
note: data are in 2008 US dollars
GDP growth rate:
1.1% (2008 est.)
3.7% (2007 est.)
GDP per capita:
$34,600 (2008 est.)
$34,300 (2007 est.)
$33,100 (2006 est.)
note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Inflation rate: 1.4% (2008 est.)
Currency: euro (EUR)
Exchange rates:
euros (EUR) per US dollar - 0.6827 (2008 est.), 0.7345 (2007), 0.7964 (2006), 0.8041 (2005), 0.8054 (2004)
People
Population: 40,525,002 (July 2009 est.)
Growth rate: 0.072% (2009 est.)
Religions:
Roman Catholic 94%, other 6%
Languages:
Castilian Spanish (official) 74%, Catalan 17%, Galician 7%, Basque 2%, are official regionally
Government
Capital:
name: Madrid
time difference: UTC+1 (6 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)
daylight saving time: +1hr, begins last Sunday in March; ends last Sunday in October
note: Spain is divided into two time zones including the Canary Islands
Independence:
1492; the Iberian peninsula was characterized by a variety of independent kingdoms prior to the Muslim occupation that began in the early 8th century A.D. and lasted nearly seven centuries; the small Christian redoubts of the north began the reconquest almost immediately, culminating in the seizure of Granada in 1492; this event completed the unification of several kingdoms and is traditionally considered the forging of present-day Spain
Note: Information on Spain was mainly sourced from CIA's World Factbook and may represent an American point of view. To learn more about Spain, please visit one of the links below.
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