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Catalonia is an autonomous community in the east of . Roman ruins stand as a testament to Catalonia's long history, and the Mediterranean beaches and spectacular mountains draw visitors from around the world.
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is 's second largest city, with a population of nearly two million people, and the capital of Catalonia. A major port on the northeastern Mediterranean coast of Spain, has a wide variety of attractions that bring in tourists from around the globe.

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is the first large seaside town south of . The town also offers a number of historical sites including churches from several different periods and a well preserved Roman colosseum.

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is the chief city of in Catalonia, northeast Spain. In 2023 the city had a population of 104,320, with about another 50,000 in the adjoining town of Salt.

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The Province of is one of the four provinces of Catalonia, centred around the Catalan capital . Dominated by its capital, it features both an extensive Mediterranean coast with many popular beach resorts, as well as a mountain range rising far over 1,000 m in the immediate vicinity of the coast.

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The Province of is a province in the northeastern part of the autonomous community of Catalonia, . It is bordered on the northwest by the , on the southwest by the , on the north by , and on the east by the Mediterranean Sea.

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is the southernmost province in Catalonia, . The Montsià is an administrative region within Tarragon. It has a geographical variety that makes it a concentrated, very small synthesis of the continent: the coast in the Mediterranean sea, the…

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The Province of is one of the four provinces of Catalonia. It lies in northeastern , in the western part of the autonomous community of Catalonia, and is bordered by the provinces of , , , and and the country of and the principality of .

Catalonia

Latitude of center
41.8523° or 41° 51′ 8″ north
Longitude of center
1.5745° or 1° 34′ 28″ east
Population
8,010,000
Elevation
371 metres (1,217 feet)
United Nations Location Code
ES CL6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 602512999
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
3336901
Wiki­data ID
Q5705
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Catalonia” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Catalunya”
  • Afrikaans: “Katalonië”
  • Albanian: “Katalonia”
  • Amharic: “Catalunya”
  • Amharic: “ካታሎኒያ”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Καταλονία”
  • Arabic: “قطلونية”
  • Arabic: “كاتالونيا”
  • Arabic: “كتالونيا”
  • Aragonese: “Catalunya”
  • Armenian: “Կատալոնիա”
  • Arpitan: “Catalogne”
  • Arpitan: “Comunôtât ôtonoma de Catalogne”
  • Asturian: “Cataluña”
  • Asturian: “Catalunya”
  • Azerbaijani: “Catalunya”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kataloniya”
  • Balinese: “Catalunya”
  • Bashkir: “Catalunya”
  • Bashkir: “Каталония”
  • Basque: “Catalunya”
  • Basque: “Katalunia”
  • Basque: “Kataluniako Autonomia Erkidegoa”
  • Bavarian: “Catalunya”
  • Bavarian: “Katalonien”
  • Belarusian: “Catalunya”
  • Belarusian: “Каталёнія”
  • Belarusian: “Каталонія”
  • Bengali: “Catalunya”
  • Bengali: “কাতালুনিয়া”
  • Betawi: “Kataloni”
  • Bhojpuri: “Catalunya”
  • Bhojpuri: “कैटालोनिया”
  • Bosnian: “Catalunya”
  • Bosnian: “Katalonija”
  • Breton: “Catalunya”
  • Breton: “Katalonia”
  • Breton: “Kumuniezh Emren Katalonia”
  • Bulgarian: “Catalunya”
  • Bulgarian: “Каталония”
  • Burmese: “ကက်တလိုနီးယားနိုင်ငံ”
  • Burmese: “ကာတာလူညာတိုင်း”
  • Catalan: “Cat.”
  • Catalan: “Catalunya”
  • Catalan: “Comunitat Autònoma de Catalunya”
  • Catalan: “Comunitat de Catalunya”
  • Catalan: “el Principat”
  • Catalan: “ES-CT”
  • Catalan: “Principat de Catalunya”
  • Cebuano: “Catalunya”
  • Cebuano: “Katalunya”
  • Central Bikol: “Catalunya”
  • Central Bikol: “Katalunya”
  • Central Kurdish: “Catalunya”
  • Central Kurdish: “کەتەلۆنیا”
  • Chamorro: “加泰罗尼亚”
  • Chavacano: “Cataluña”
  • Chechen: “Catalunya”
  • Chechen: “Каталони”
  • Chinese: “Catalunya”
  • Chinese: “加泰罗尼亚”
  • Chinese: “加泰羅尼亞”
  • Chinese: “加泰隆尼亚”
  • Chinese: “加泰隆尼亞”
  • Chinese: “加泰隆尼亞自治區”
  • Cornish: “Kataloni”
  • Corsican: “Catalogna”
  • Corsican: “Catalugna”
  • Corsican: “Cumunità Autonoma di Catalogna”
  • Corsican: “Cumunità Autonoma di Catalugna”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Kataloniya”
  • Croatian: “Katalonija”
  • Czech: “Catalunya”
  • Czech: “Katalánsko”
  • Danish: “Catalonien”
  • Danish: “Catalunya”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Catalunya”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Katalonya”
  • Dutch: “Catalonie”
  • Dutch: “Catalonië”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “Catalunya”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كاتالونيا”
  • Emilian: “Catalùgna”
  • Esperanto: “Catalunya”
  • Esperanto: “Katalunio”
  • Esperanto: “Katalunujo”
  • Estonian: “Catalunya”
  • Estonian: “Kataloonia”
  • Extremaduran: “Cataluña”
  • Finnish: “Catalonha”
  • Finnish: “Cataluña”
  • Finnish: “Catalunya”
  • Finnish: “Katalonia”
  • French: “Cat.”
  • French: “Catal.”
  • French: “Catalogne”
  • French: “Catalunya”
  • Galician: “Cataluña”
  • Georgian: “კატალონია”
  • German: “Autonome Gemeinschaft Katalonien”
  • German: “Katalonien”
  • Gilaki: “کاتالۊنيا”
  • Greek: “Καταλονία”
  • Greek: “Καταλωνία”
  • Guarani: “Katalúña”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Katalògn”
  • Haitian: “Kataloy”
  • Haitian: “Katalòy”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Catalonia”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Catalunya”
  • Hausa: “Katalunya”
  • Hebrew: “קטלוניה”
  • Hindi: “कातालोन्या”
  • Hindi: “कैटलोनिया”
  • Hungarian: “Catalunya”
  • Hungarian: “Katalónia”
  • Icelandic: “Katalónía”
  • Ido: “Katalunia”
  • Igbo: “Ugwuoba”
  • Indonesian: “Katalonia”
  • Interlingua: “Catalonia”
  • Interlingue: “Catalonia”
  • Irish: “an Chatalóin”
  • Irish: “An Chatalóin”
  • Italian: “Cat.”
  • Italian: “Catalogna”
  • Italian: “Comunità Autonoma di Catalogna”
  • Italian: “Comunità di Catalogna”
  • Italian: “La Catalogna”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Kataluonia”
  • Japanese: “カタルーニャ”
  • Japanese: “カタルーニャ州”
  • Japanese: “カタルーニャ自治州”
  • Japanese: “カタロニア”
  • Javanese: “Catalunya”
  • Kabyle: “Katalunya”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Kataloniya”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Каталония”
  • Kashubian: “Catalunya”
  • Kashubian: “Katalońskô”
  • Kazakh: “Каталония”
  • Kinaray-A: “Katalonyanhun”
  • Kinaray-A: “Katalunya”
  • Kinaray-A: “Katalunyanhën”
  • Kirghiz: “Каталония”
  • Korean: “카탈로니아”
  • Korean: “카탈루냐 자치공동체”
  • Korean: “카탈루냐 지방”
  • Korean: “카탈루냐”
  • Kurdish: “Katalonya”
  • Kurdish: “Ketelonya”
  • Ladin: “Catalonia”
  • Ladino: “Katalunya”
  • Lao: “ແຄວ້ນກາຕາໂລຍ”
  • Latin: “Catalaunia”
  • Latvian: “Katalonija”
  • Ligurian: “Catalogna”
  • Limburgan: “Catalonië”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Catalunia”
  • Lithuanian: “Katalonija”
  • Livvi: “Katalunii”
  • Lombard: “Catalògna”
  • Low German: “Catalonië”
  • Low German: “Katalonie”
  • Low German: “Katalonien”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Catalunya”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Kataloniska”
  • Luxembourgish: “Katalounien”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Catalunya”
  • Macedonian: “Каталонија”
  • Malagasy: “Catalonia”
  • Malay: “Catalonia”
  • Malayalam: “Catalonia”
  • Malayalam: “കാറ്റലോണിയ”
  • Manx: “Yn Chataloan”
  • Maori: “Catalonia”
  • Maori: “Katarōnia”
  • Marathi: “कातालोनिया”
  • Mazanderani: “کاتالونون”
  • Mazanderani: “کاتالونیا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Catalunya”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Catalunya”
  • Mingrelian: “კატალონია”
  • Mirandese: “Catalunha”
  • Mongolian: “Каталон орон”
  • Mongolian: “Каталони”
  • Narom: “Catalongne”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kataloonien”
  • Northern Sami: “Katalonia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Catalonia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Catalonia”
  • Norwegian: “Catalonia”
  • Novial: “Katalunia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Catalonha”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Cataluña”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Catalunya”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Comunautat Autonòma de Catalonha”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “Catalunya”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܩܛܠܘܢܝܐ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Catalonia”
  • Oriya: “କେଟଲୋନିଆ”
  • Ossetian: “Каталони”
  • Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928): “قطلونیه”
  • Pampanga: “Catalonia”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਾਤਾਲੋਨੀਆ”
  • Papiamento: “Katalunia”
  • Persian: “کاتالونیا”
  • Picard: “Catalongne”
  • Piemontese: “Catalògna”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Cataloniya”
  • Polish: “Catalunya”
  • Polish: “Katalonia”
  • Portuguese: “Catalunha”
  • Portuguese: “Catalunya”
  • Pushto: “کاتالونيا”
  • Quechua: “Katalunya”
  • Romanian: “Catalonia”
  • Romansh: “Catalugna”
  • Russia Buriat: “Catalunya”
  • Russia Buriat: “Каталони”
  • Russian: “автономное сообщество Каталония”
  • Russian: “Каталония”
  • Samoan: “Katalonia”
  • Samogitian: “Kataluonėjė”
  • Sardinian: “Catalogna”
  • Sardinian: “Catalugna”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Katalonien”
  • Scots: “Catalonie”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Catalòinia”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Cataluinia”
  • Serbian: “Каталонија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Katalonija”
  • Shona: “Katalonya”
  • Sicilian: “Catalugna”
  • Silesian: “Katalůńijo”
  • Sinhala: “කැටලෝනියා”
  • Slovak: “Katalánsko”
  • Slovenian: “Katalonija”
  • Somali: “Katalooniya”
  • South Azerbaijani: “Catalunya”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کاتالونیا”
  • Spanish: “Cataluña”
  • Spanish: “Comunidad Autónoma de Cataluña”
  • Swahili: “Catalonia”
  • Swedish: “Catalonha”
  • Swedish: “Cataluña”
  • Swedish: “Catalunya”
  • Swedish: “Katalonien”
  • Swiss German: “Katalonien”
  • Tachelhit: “Kaṭalunya”
  • Tagalog: “Cataluña”
  • Tagalog: “Catalunya”
  • Tahitian: “Tatarūnia”
  • Tajik: “Каталония”
  • Talysh: “Katalunijə”
  • Tamil: “காத்தலோனியா”
  • Tatar: “Каталония”
  • Thai: “แคว้นกาตาลุญญา”
  • Thai: “แคว้นคาเทโลเนีย”
  • Tibetan: “ཁེ་ཋ་ལོ་ནྱི་”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Katalonia”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Katalonien”
  • Turkish: “Katalonya”
  • Turkmen: “Kataloniýa”
  • Udmurt: “Каталония”
  • Uighur: “كاتالونىيە”
  • Ukrainian: “Каталонія”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Katalanska”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Katalonija”
  • Urdu: “کاتالونیا”
  • Uzbek: “Kataloniya”
  • Venetian: “Catełogna”
  • Vietnamese: “Catalunya”
  • Vlaams: “Catalonië”
  • Volapük: “Katalonän”
  • Võro: “Kataloonia”
  • Walloon: “Catalogne”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Cataluña”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Catalunya”
  • Welsh: “Catalonha”
  • Welsh: “Catalonia”
  • Welsh: “Cataluña”
  • Welsh: “Catalunya”
  • Welsh: “Catalwnia”
  • Western Armenian: “Քաթալոնիա”
  • Western Frisian: “Kataloanje”
  • Western Panjabi: “کیتلونیا”
  • Wu Chinese: “加泰罗尼亚”
  • Yiddish: “קאטאלאניע”
  • Yue Chinese: “加泰隆尼亞”
  • “Catalogna”
  • “Catalùgna”
  • “Cataluña”
  • “Kataloniah”
  • “Kataloonia”
  • “Kataluonėjė”
  • “ma Katala”
  • “कैटालोनिया”

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