Spain

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This page was generated on 20 September 2026 at 12:27 UTC. The bundled facts on it were retrieved between 13 July 2026 and 8 August 2026. Aletheia's source record for emergency numbers records no retrieval date, so it is not covered by that range.

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Country outlines on Aletheia come from Natural Earth's 1:10-million public-domain boundary set, made by volunteer cartographers and supported by NACIS. Where a border is disputed, the line drawn is one cartographic convention among the competing claims — not a settled fact, and not Aletheia taking a side. Disputes we can source are listed rather than hidden inside the outline.

Locator map of Spain. Spain is filled; surrounding countries are drawn in a dimmer tone and nothing is hidden behind them. 7 contested areas are marked with hatching: Ceuta (marked at minimum size, not to scale), Isla del Perejil (marked at minimum size, not to scale), Islas Chafarinas (marked at minimum size, not to scale), Melilla (marked at minimum size, not to scale), Olivenza, Penon de Alhucemas (marked at minimum size, not to scale), Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera (marked at minimum size, not to scale). 14 parts of it are too small to draw at this scale and are not shown. View spans 20.2°W to 6.4°E and 26.2°N to 45.2°N. Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m.Ceuta — status contested; see the list below.Isla del Perejil — status contested; see the list below.Islas Chafarinas — status contested; see the list below.Melilla — status contested; see the list below.Olivenza — status contested; see the list below.Penon de Alhucemas — status contested; see the list below.Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera — status contested; see the list below.

Spain is filled. The 8 other countries reaching this view are drawn in a dimmer tone — dimmed, not hidden. Unpainted ground is where no boundary in this dataset falls: open water, or land none of them claims.

The 7 hatched areas are contested, and Aletheia takes no position on any of them. The hatching marks where the dispute lies — including where it falls inside the outline — and it is the same set the list below names. 6 of them are smaller than this map can draw and are marked with a fixed-size diamond: the diamond is their position, not their size or shape.

14 parts of Spain in this source are smaller than a pixel at this scale and are not drawn. Nothing larger than that is missing, and they have not been enlarged to make them visible.

Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m. Disputed areas: Natural Earth (public domain). Equirectangular projection, standard parallel 35.7°N — distances and areas away from that parallel are stretched. View: 20.2°W–6.4°E, 26.2°N–45.2°N.

Disputed areas involving Spain

7 areas whose status is contested. Aletheia takes no position on any of them. Each is described in the source’s own words.

Source: Natural Earth’s disputed-areas layer (public domain). The list is not exhaustive, and inclusion or omission is not a judgment about any claim’s merit. What has happened in these places is not described here — that needs a source Aletheia has not yet been able to read.

  1. News sources

    1 source from Spainin Aletheia’s registry. Coverage here is thin.

    • El País

    sources not yet assessed

  2. Official alerts

    An official alerting source is connected for Spain: MeteoAlarm (EUMETNET).

    This says a source is connected — not whether any warning is in force right now. Open Alerts for that.

  3. National legislature

    Cortes Generales ↗

    Wikidata P856 · authoritative source, but our checker could not reach it (many government sites block automated requests)

  4. Local time

    3 time zones.

    How many distinct clocks that is depends on the date. The current time needs JavaScript, so it is not shown here rather than shown wrong.

  5. Conditions at the capital

    Right now in Madrid

    28°C / 82°FClearwind 4 km/h / 3 mph

    Checked 12 minutes ago

    Conditions at the capital, not across the country.

    Weather from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)

    Madrid, 2026-09-20Sunrise 8:00 AM · sunset 8:15 PM12h 15m of daylightWaxing gibbous, 65% lit

  6. At a glance

    ISO code
    ESPuncited
    Driving side
    rightcited
    Mains voltage
    230 Vcited
    Capital
    Madridcited
    Official languages
    5 official languagesBasque, Catalan, Galician, Occitan, Spanish
    uncited
    Plug types
    Type C (Europlug), Type F (Schuko)cited · letters are the IEC classification
    Official website
    administracion.gob.es ↗From the source's "official website" statement, kept here because the site is a government portal. We have not tested whether it loads.uncited

  7. Population and economy

    Population

    Population of Spain: the UN's 2025 estimate is 49,355,143 people. The page shows that figure carried forward at about 58 more an hour. It is a projection, not a count, and the figure shown changes as time passes.

    Not a count. This is the UN's 2025 estimate carried forward at the rate implied by the two most recent published years — arithmetic, not a measurement. Nobody counts a country continuously, and the true figure right now is unknown.

    Where this number comes from
    Base figure
    49,355,143 people
    For the year
    2025 — a mid-year estimate, so it describes 1 July 2025
    Compared with
    48,848,840 people in 2024
    Rate applied
    about 58 more an hour (506,639 a year)
    How that rate was found
    The difference between the 2024 and 2025 estimates, divided by the time between them. It is our arithmetic on two published figures — the source does not publish this rate.
    Carried forward
    0 days beyond the base figure's date
    Source
    UN World Population Prospects and national statistical offices, compiled by the World Bank · source updated 2026-07-13
    The source's own definition
    The values shown are midyear estimates.

    THIS NUMBER IS NOT A MEASUREMENT, AND ITS MOVEMENT IS NOT NEWS. No country counts its population continuously. A census is periodic, and every figure between censuses — including the estimate this starts from — is a projection. What you are watching is that projection's trend applied to the clock on your phone. It moves because time passes, not because anyone was born or died. Treat the digits beyond the first few as arithmetic rather than knowledge: the trend is real, the precision is not.

    Population
    49,355,1432025
    GDP
    1,906,453,309,9862025
    GDP per capita
    38,6272025
    Life expectancy at birth
    83.9 years2024
    Exports
    36.6%2025
    Imports
    32.8%2025

    Compiled by the World Bank from: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wpp/, publisher: UN Population Division · source updated 2026-07-13 · each figure is dated because the most recent value was chosen by us, not by the source

  8. In this country's own words

    A motto IS recorded for this country, but not in any of its official languages. Aletheia does not quote a country in a language it does not use officially — the risk is quoting a mis-tagged entry as a nation's own words. That is our rule declining it, not the source failing to record one.

    Also recorded in Latin.

  9. World Heritage Sites

    48 World Heritage Sitesshow all
    1. historic centre of Córdoba · inscribed 1984
    2. Alhambra, Generalife and Albayzín, Granada · inscribed 1984
    3. Burgos Cathedral · inscribed 1984
    4. Monastery and Site of the Escurial, Madrid · inscribed 1984
    5. Works of Antoni Gaudí · inscribed 1984
    6. Routes of Santiago de Compostela: Camino Francés and Routes of Northern Spain · inscribed 1984
    7. Cave of Altamira · inscribed 1985 · removed from the List

      The name shown for this site was not chosen. Two or more records carry an inscription-level number for it and give different names, so we show one of them without claiming it is the right one. It is unchosen, not known to be wrong.

    8. Old Town of Segovia and its Aqueduct · inscribed 1985
    9. Monuments of Oviedo and the Kingdom of the Asturias · inscribed 1985
    10. old town of Santiago de Compostela · inscribed 1985
    11. Old Town of Ávila with its Extra-Muros Churches · inscribed 1985
    12. Mudejar Architecture of Aragon · inscribed 1986
    13. Historic City of Toledo · inscribed 1986
    14. Garajonay National Park · inscribed 1986
    15. old town of Cáceres · inscribed 1986
    16. Cathedral, Alcázar and Archivo de Indias in Seville · inscribed 1987
    17. Old City of Salamanca · inscribed 1988
    18. Poblet Monastery · inscribed 1991
    19. Archaeological Ensemble of Mérida · inscribed 1993
    20. Royal Monastery of Saint Mary of Guadalupe · inscribed 1993
    21. Doñana National Park · inscribed 1994
    22. Historic Walled Town of Cuenca · inscribed 1996
    23. Llotja de la Seda · inscribed 1996
    24. Pyrénées – Mont Perdu World Heritage Site · inscribed 1997 · shared with France
    25. Las Médulas · inscribed 1997
    26. Palau de la Música Catalana and Hospital de Sant Pau, Barcelona · inscribed 1997
    27. Monasteries of San Millán de la Cogolla · inscribed 1997
    28. Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula · inscribed 1998
    29. University and Historic Precinct of Alcalá de Henares · inscribed 1998
    30. Ibiza, Biodiversity and Culture · inscribed 1999
    31. San Cristóbal de La Laguna · inscribed 1999
    32. Colonia Iulia Urbs Triumphalis Tarraco · inscribed 2000

      The name shown for this site was not chosen. Two or more records carry an inscription-level number for it and give different names, so we show one of them without claiming it is the right one. It is unchosen, not known to be wrong.

    33. Palmeral of Elche · inscribed 2000
    34. Roman Walls of Lugo · inscribed 2000
    35. Catalan Romanesque Churches of the Vall de Boí · inscribed 2000
    36. Atapuerca · inscribed 2000
    37. Aranjuez Cultural Landscape · inscribed 2001
    38. Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Úbeda and Baeza · inscribed 2003
    39. Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe · inscribed 2007 · shared with Albania, Austria and 15 more countries
    40. Teide National Park · inscribed 2007
    41. Tower of Hercules · inscribed 2009
    42. Prehistoric Rock-Art Site of the Côa Valley and Siega Verde · inscribed 2010 · shared with Portugal
    43. Cultural Landscape of the Serra de Tramuntana · inscribed 2011
    44. Heritage of Mercury. Almadén and Idrija · inscribed 2012 · shared with Slovenia
    45. Antequera Dolmens Site · inscribed 2016
    46. Madinat Al-Zahra · inscribed 2018
    47. Risco Caido · inscribed 2019
    48. Talayotic Culture of Minorca · inscribed 2023
    49. Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro, a landscape of Arts and Sciences

    Register from Wikidata (CC0) · in inscription order · links go to UNESCO · 1 removed from the list is shown and not counted

  10. Emergency numbers

    • 061listed as: emergency medical services
    • 091listed as: police
    • 112

    Shown in numerical order, which is not an order of priority.

    Listed by the source, mostly from ITU-T E.129. We have not dialled these numbers, and where a service is named it is the source's description rather than ours.

  11. Explore this country

  12. Regions

    First-level regions as GeoNames lists them, shown alphabetically · each page computes daylight at the region’s own coordinates

  13. Currency

    EUR

News coverage here is counted from Aletheia’s bundled source registry plus the sources the Host had admitted as of 2026-09-14. A source admitted since that date has not reached this page yet, so this is a floor rather than a total.

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