Spain

About this destination

Spain, officially the Kingdom of Spain (Spanish: Reino de España), is a country in the southwest of Europe with 48,958,159 (2017) inhabitants and an area of 505,992 km². The country covers roughly 80% of the Iberian Peninsula. Besides that, the Balearic Islands archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea, the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean and the Spanish exclaves in North Africa also belong to the country. In the northeast, Spain borders France and Andorra, along the entire length of the Pyrenees, in the west Portugal, in the south the British colony of Gibraltar, and via the exclaves Melilla and Ceuta, Morocco.