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Spain

Standards

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:

Andorra 63.7 km France 623 km Gibraltar 1.2 km Portugal 1,214 km Morocco (Ceuta) 6.3 km Morocco (Melilla) 9.6 km

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.

CIA's World Factbook on Spain

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