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General Information About Spain

Culture

There are UNESCO listed sites: Cave of Altamira and Paleolithic Cave Art of Northern Spain, Old Town of Segovia and its Aqueduct, Monuments of Oviedo and the Kingdom of the Asturias, Historic Centre of Cordoba, Alhambra, Generalife and Albayzín, Granada. Example of famous dishes in this country: Tortilla española.

Geography

The following languages are spoken by the nation's citizens: Catalan, Basque, Galician, Occitan (post 1500), Spanish. This nation's capital is Madrid and the country shares a border with Andorra, France, Portugal, Morocco. 505,992 km² make up the entire country, they use a postcode system and the key cities are: Madrid, Zaragoza, Barcelona, Málaga, A Coruña.

Economy

It is ranked 14# in the world with a GDP of $1,427,380,681,294 USD in 2021. The price for a Big Mac in this country is 4.58€ (corresponding to $4.69 USD). The currency ISO code is EUR and the currency symbol is €.

Population

The median age of the population is 27.70 years with a birth growth rate of 0.46%. There are 46,812,000 people here, or 0.63% of the world's population.

Education

You can find famous universities here like University of Barcelona, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Complutense University of Madrid, University of Valencia, Autonomous University of Madrid. The average length of time residents spend in school is 12 years (including tertiary education).

Good to know

Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain for more information about this nation. Telephone numbers begin with +34, the domain name ".es" is used by the country's websites, the country's ISO code is ES

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