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Spain: 19 provinces, states and territories

Every administrative level, from the 19 first-level units, on a terrain map with people, density and sources.

Page GRX-ESP-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO ESP / ESStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
19
first-level units
19
units at 1 level
44,958,828
people (GHSL 2025)
Terrain
open relief

01Map

Spain by province, state and territory

19 first-level units, raised by people per km² over the population grid and terrain. Select a unit to drill in or open its page.

FIG 1 · 19 first-level units of Spain
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Units rise with people per km² · GHSL 2025 raster · terrain · ADM1Risk values when released
Lowest fifthLow fifthMiddle fifthHigh fifthHighest fifthNo data
Column height and colour show people per km² by unit, in quantile fifths among the units shown (the key on the map gives the breaks); units with no people on the grid are grey, not the lowest class; the raster beneath is the GHSL 2025 population grid. Source observations, not index values.
02Levels

Every administrative level of Spain

Each level comes from the boundary source admitted for that country and level, with its own licence.

ADM1
19 first-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · each with its own page
03Units

All 19 first-level units

Two population estimates from open grids, summed inside each boundary. The CSV carries the first two levels; each unit page carries the levels below it.

Boundary licences: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Unit Ikhowudi People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Andalucía ESP 7,394,602 7,816,359 87,560 84 16.4% 673,490
Aragón ESP 1,342,787 1,326,054 47,655 28 3% 0
Canarias ESP 1,649,658 1,840,772 7,461 221 3.7% 29,963
Cantabria ESP 472,770 520,600 5,320 89 1.1% 45,879
Castilla y León ESP 2,166,148 2,296,059 94,084 23 4.8% 0
Castilla-La Mancha ESP 2,026,128 1,977,752 79,384 26 4.5% 0
Cataluña/Catalunya ESP 8,061,726 7,570,318 32,071 251 17.9% 513,810
Ciudad Autónoma de Ceuta ESP 0 0 20 0 0% 0
Ciudad Autónoma de Melilla ESP 0 0 14 0 0% 0
Comunidad de Madrid ESP 7,519,505 6,969,269 8,020 938 16.7% 0
Comunidad Foral de Navarra ESP 613,166 678,885 10,373 59 1.4% 0
Comunitat Valenciana ESP 4,800,626 4,849,167 23,245 207 10.7% 532,277
Extremadura ESP 932,306 1,045,425 41,597 22 2.1% 0
Galicia ESP 2,104,583 2,410,065 29,541 71 4.7% 34,970
Illes Balears ESP 1,094,462 1,069,378 4,986 220 2.4% 91,859
La Rioja ESP 336,281 324,019 5,038 67 0.7% 0
País Vasco/Euskadi ESP 1,938,475 2,200,255 7,223 268 4.3% 82,487
Principado de Asturias ESP 965,488 953,585 10,585 91 2.1% 38,520
Región de Murcia ESP 1,540,117 1,528,039 11,311 136 3.4% 38,515
04Umngcipheko

Subnational risk products

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Spain publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index, with intervals and sources. Until then these pages show boundaries, people and exposure only.
05Imithombo

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen ESP ADM1, source: Instituto de Geografico Nacional, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · source · represents 2017
Basemap
OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
Terrain
Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
People
GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
Amazwe
Natural Earth (public domain).
Elevation
GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
Position
Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.

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