Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- Madrid
- Region
- Europe, Southern Europe
- Population
- 49,355,143 (2025)
- Area
- 504,782 km²
- Currency
- euro (EUR)
- Languages
- Spanish, Catalan, Galician, Basque, Occitan (post 1500)
- Calling code
- +34
- Internet domain
- .es
- ISO codes
- ES, ESP, 724
- Time zone
- UTC to UTC+1:00
- United Nations
- Member state
- Postal code pattern
- ##### (# = digit, @ = letter)
Land and position
Spain covers about 504,782 square kilometres. By area it ranks 53rd among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than Thailand and a little larger than Turkmenistan. It shares a land border with 5 neighbours: Andorra, France, Gibraltar, Morocco, Portugal. Its centre lies at about 40° north, 4° west, in the northern hemisphere.
Neighbours
People
About 49.4 million people live in Spain (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 32nd most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure, with about 0.6 percent of the world's people. On average there are 98 people to each square kilometre. About 81 percent of people live in towns and cities (World Bank, 2025). A baby born there can expect to live about 84 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: Spanish, Catalan, Galician, Basque, Occitan (post 1500). A person from Spain is called Spanish.
Money and economy
The currency is the euro (code EUR, symbol €). It is also the main currency of Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland and 28 more. The World Bank puts the size of its economy (GDP) at about US$ 1.91 trillion (2025), which is about US$ 38,627 for each person (2025).
Time
Spain spans 3 time zone areas, from UTC to UTC+1:00. Clocks are moved for daylight saving time in part of the year.
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Offsets are for January 2026. See Time Zones for a converter.
Largest cities
| City | People |
|---|---|
| Madrid | 3,255,944 |
| Barcelona | 1,686,208 |
| Valencia | 824,340 |
| Zaragoza | 686,986 |
| Sevilla | 686,741 |
| Málaga | 592,346 |
City figures are from GeoNames and count the city itself, not the wider urban area. They can be some years old, so use them to see the order of size.
More in Southern Europe
Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Malta, San Marino, Vatican City. See the whole region.
Figures were collected on 11 November 2026 from the World Bank, GeoNames and the open countries data set. See About and data sources. Borders and names follow those sources and do not express any view on disputed territory.