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Spain counts on
an extension of 504,645 km2, being the fourth
more extensive country of the continent after,
Russia, Ukraine and France. Image: Google
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Spain, officially either Spain or
Kingdom of Spain, a country located 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
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that border Morocco. With an
area of 504,030 km², Spain is the second largest country
in Western Europe (behind France) and with an average
altitude of 650m, the second highest country in Europe (behind
Switzerland). Spain
is a constitutional monarchy organised as a parliamentary
democracy, and has been a member of the European Union
since 1986. It is a developed country with the ninth
largest economy in the world and fifth largest in the EU,
based on nominal GDP.
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