Spain

Spain

Spain ranks 8th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind France, Italy, and Russia. Memorable people born in present day Spain include Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí, and Carles Puigdemont. Memorable people who died in Spain include Christopher Columbus, Salvador Dalí, and Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. Spain has been the birth place of many soccer players and politicians and the death place of many politicians and writers.

Spain or the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in southwestern Europe with parts of territory in the Atlantic Ocean and across the Mediterranean Sea. The largest part of Spain is situated on the Iberian Peninsula; its territory also includes the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean, the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea, the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla, and several minor overseas territories also scattered along the Moroccan coast of the Alboran Sea. The country's mainland is bordered to the south by Gibraltar; to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea; to the north by France, Andorra and the Bay of Biscay; and to the west by Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean. Read more on Wikipedia