Spain (esp)

Spain

Spain ranks 1,124th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Bondy, Miyagi Prefecture, and Malatya. Memorable people born in Spain include Estanislau Basora, Agobard, and Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz. Memorable people who died in Spain include Sofia Kovalevskaya, Hamilcar Barca, and Juan Antonio Samaranch. Spain has been the birth place of many soccer players, and religious figures and the death place of many writers, and politicians. Spain is located in Spain.

Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa. It is the largest country in Southern Europe and the fourth-most populous European Union member state. Spanning across the majority of the Iberian Peninsula, its territory also includes the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean, the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea, and the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla in Africa. Peninsular Spain is bordered to the north by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay; to the east and south by the Mediterranean Sea and Gibraltar; and to the west by Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean. Spain's capital and largest city is Madrid, and other major urban areas include Barcelona, Valencia, Zaragoza, Seville, Málaga, Murcia, Palma de Mallorca, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, and Bilbao. Read more on Wikipedia