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Community of Madrid

The Community of Madrid is a region which includes the of . It has 6.5 million inhabitants.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Madrid and Alcalá de Henares.

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is 's capital and largest city. A city that has been marked by Spain's varied and tumultuous history, has some of Europe's most impressive cultural and architectural heritage, which includes grand avenues, plazas, buildings and monuments, world-class art galleries and museums, highly popular football teams, and cultural events of international fame for everyone.

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is a city 30 km northeast of . Its attractive medieval centre, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is full of interesting old buildings.

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is a city of 181,000 people just south of . It is home to the Air Base, one of the oldest Spanish military air bases, and to the main campus of the Charles III University of Madrid.

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is an historic municipality at the confluence of the Tajo and Jarama rivers. It is about 50 km south of in and difficult for Anglophones to pronounce: aɾaŋˈxweθ sounds something like a'ran'with!

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is a city in the Community of Madrid and it is the second largest in the region. hosts the CA2M the museum with the contemporary art collection of the Community of Madrid.

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Madrid-Barajas Airport is the main airport of . It is an important connection point for flights between and Latin America and home base of Spain's flag carrier Iberia as well as Air Europa.

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is a municipality of located in the Community of Madrid. It forms an urban continuum with the neighbouring municipality of .

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is in Community of Madrid. It is a thriving feeder town for the capital city, and home to about 100,000 relatively wealthy, middle-class souls.

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San Lorenzo de is a town about 45 km northwest of in . Set in the foothills of the Sierra de Guadarrama, its chief attraction is the Monastery of , a World Heritage Site that was the power centre of the Spanish empire under King Felipe II.

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is a medieval town of 5,200 people close to in . It is not a major tourist area so it is worth a visit if you want to see Spain in the raw. The town also features a fort and is surrounded by olive groves.

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is a town of 34,000 people in . Bullfighting, stock-breeding, meadows and beef are the main features of .

Community of Madrid

Latitude of center
40.4174° or 40° 25′ 3″ north
Longitude of center
-3.7227° or 3° 43′ 22″ west
Population
6,660,000
Elevation
606 metres (1,988 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 12697660167
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
6355233
Wiki­data ID
Q5756
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Community of Madrid” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Komuniteti i Madridit”
  • Arabic: “منطقة مدريد”
  • Aragonese: “Comunidat de Madrit”
  • Aragonese: “Madrid”
  • Armenian: “Մադրիդ”
  • Arpitan: “Comunôtât ôtonoma de Madrid”
  • Asturian: “Comunidá de Madrid”
  • Asturian: “Madrid”
  • Azerbaijani: “Madrid muxtar birliyi”
  • Azerbaijani: “Madrid muxtar cəmiyyəti”
  • Azerbaijani: “Madrid vilayəti”
  • Azerbaijani: “Madrid”
  • Balinese: “Komunitas Madrid”
  • Basque: “Madril”
  • Basque: “Madrilgo Erkidegoa”
  • Belarusian: “аўтаномная супольнасць Мадрыд”
  • Belarusian: “Мадрыд (аўтаномная супольнасьць)”
  • Belarusian: “Мадрыд, аўтаномная супольнасць”
  • Belarusian: “Мадрыд”
  • Bengali: “কমুনিদাদ দে মাদ্রিদ”
  • Bengali: “মাদ্রিদ অঞ্চল”
  • Bengali: “মাদ্রিদ প্রদেশ”
  • Bengali: “মাদ্রিদ স্বায়ত্তশাসিত অঞ্চল”
  • Bengali: “মাদ্রিদের স্বায়ত্তশাসিত অঞ্চল”
  • Bosnian: “Zajednica Madrida”
  • Breton: “Kumuniezh Madrid”
  • Bulgarian: “Мадрид”
  • Bulgarian: “Мадридска област”
  • Catalan: “Comunitat de Madrid”
  • Catalan: “Madrid”
  • Catalan: “Província de Madrid”
  • Cebuano: “Comunidad de Madrid”
  • Chinese: “Madrid Siā-lí”
  • Chinese: “馬德里自治區”
  • Chinese: “马德里自治区”
  • Cornish: “Madrid”
  • Corsican: “cumunità di Madrid”
  • Corsican: “cumunità di Madridi”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Madrid”
  • Croatian: “Zajednica Madrida”
  • Czech: “Madridské autonomní společenství”
  • Czech: “Madridské společenství”
  • Danish: “Madrid”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Madrid metropolitan”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Madrid”
  • Dutch: “Madrid”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اقليم مدريد”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مجتمع مدريد”
  • Esperanto: “Madrida Regiono”
  • Estonian: “Madridi autonoomne piirkond”
  • Estonian: “Madridi provints”
  • Extremaduran: “Comunidá de Mairil”
  • Finnish: “Madrid”
  • French: “communauté autonome de Madrid”
  • French: “communauté de Madrid”
  • French: “Communauté de Madrid”
  • French: “Province de Madrid”
  • Galician: “CAM”
  • Galician: “CM”
  • Galician: “Comunidade autónoma de Madrid”
  • Galician: “Comunidade de Madrid”
  • Galician: “Madrid Comunidade”
  • Galician: “Madrid provincia”
  • Galician: “Madrid”
  • Galician: “provincia de Madrid”
  • Georgian: “მადრიდის ავტონომიური გაერთიანება”
  • German: “Autonome Gemeinschaft Madrid”
  • German: “Madrid”
  • German: “Provinz Madrid”
  • Greek: “Κοινότητα της Μαδρίτης”
  • Hebrew: “מדריד”
  • Hebrew: “קהילת מדריד”
  • Hungarian: “Madrid tartomány”
  • Hungarian: “Madrid”
  • Icelandic: “Sjálfstjórnarhéraðið Madríd”
  • Icelandic: “Sjálfstjórnarsvæðið Madríd”
  • Ido: “Regiono Madrid”
  • Indonesian: “Comunidad de Madrid”
  • Indonesian: “Madrid”
  • Interlingua: “Communitate Autonome Madrid”
  • Interlingua: “Communitate de Madrid”
  • Interlingue: “Comunité de Madrid”
  • Irish: “Comhphobal Mhaidrid”
  • Italian: “comunità autonoma di Madride”
  • Italian: “comunità di Madrid”
  • Italian: “comunità di Madride”
  • Italian: “Madrid”
  • Japanese: “マドリード/マドリ−ド/マドリ－ド”
  • Japanese: “マドリード州”
  • Japanese: “マドリード県”
  • Japanese: “マドリード自治州”
  • Japanese: “マドリッド”
  • Kazakh: “Мадрид”
  • Korean: “마드리드 지방”
  • Korean: “마드리드주”
  • Ladin: “Cumunità de Madrid”
  • Ladino: “Komunidad Otonoma de Madrid”
  • Ladino: “Komunita de Madrid”
  • Latin: “Autonoma Matriti Communitas”
  • Latvian: “Madride (apgabals)”
  • Latvian: “Madrides apgabals”
  • Latvian: “Madrides autonomais apgabals”
  • Latvian: “Madrides komūna”
  • Latvian: “Madrides kopiena”
  • Limburgan: “Madrid”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Comunia Madrid”
  • Lithuanian: “Madridas”
  • Lombard: “Comunità de Madrid”
  • Luxembourgish: “Autonom Gemeinschaft Madrid”
  • Macedonian: “Мадрид”
  • Malay: “Madrid”
  • Maltese: “Komunità ta‘ Madrid”
  • Marathi: “माद्रिद”
  • Mazanderani: “مادرید شه‌گردون بخش”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Madrid Siā-lí”
  • Mingrelian: “მადრიდიშ ავტონომიური აკოართაფა”
  • Mingrelian: “მადრიდიშ ავტონომიური გოართოიანაფა”
  • Mirandese: “Quemunidade de Madrid”
  • Mongolian: “Мадридын Өөртөө Засах Нийгэмлэг”
  • Northern Frisian: “Autonoom Gemianskap Madrid”
  • Northern Sami: “Madrid”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Madrid (autonom region)”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Madrid”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Regionen Madrid”
  • Norwegian: “Madrid”
  • Novial: “Komunie de Madrid”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Comunautat Autonòma de Madrid”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Comunautat de Madrid”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܡܕܪܝܕ”
  • Ossetian: “Мадрид”
  • Pampanga: “Madrid”
  • Persian: “مادرید”
  • Piemontese: “Comunità ëd Madrid”
  • Polish: “Madryt”
  • Portuguese: “Comunidade autónoma de Madri”
  • Portuguese: “Comunidade autónoma de Madrid”
  • Portuguese: “Comunidade de Madri”
  • Portuguese: “Comunidade de Madrid”
  • Quechua: “Madrid suyu”
  • Romanian: “Madrid”
  • Russian: “Мадрид”
  • Sardinian: “Comunidade de Madrid”
  • Scots: “Commonty o Madrid”
  • Serbian: “Заједница Мадрид”
  • Serbian: “Покрајина Мадрид”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Zajednica Madrid”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Zajednica Madrida”
  • Sicilian: “Madrid”
  • Slovak: “Madridské spoločenstvo”
  • Slovenian: “Avtonomna skupnost Madrid”
  • Slovenian: “Comunidad de Madrid”
  • Spanish: “CAM”
  • Spanish: “CM”
  • Spanish: “Comunidad autónoma de Madrid”
  • Spanish: “Comunidad de Madrid”
  • Spanish: “Madrid Comunidad”
  • Spanish: “Madrid provincia”
  • Spanish: “Madrid”
  • Spanish: “provincia de Madrid”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Madrid”
  • Swahili: “Jimbo la Madrid”
  • Swedish: “Madrid”
  • Swedish: “regionen Madrid”
  • Tagalog: “Pamayanan ng Madrid”
  • Tajik: “Мадрид”
  • Tatar: “Мадрид (автономияле төбәк)”
  • Tatar: “Мадрид”
  • Thai: “แคว้นมาดริด”
  • Turkish: “Madrid Topluluğu”
  • Ukrainian: “комунідад Мадрид”
  • Ukrainian: “Мадрид”
  • Urdu: “میدرد کمیونٹی”
  • Uzbek: “Madrid”
  • Venetian: “Comunità de Madrid”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng đồng Madrid”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Comunidad de Madrid”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Komunidad han Madrid”
  • Welsh: “Madrid”
  • Western Armenian: “Մատրիտ”
  • Western Frisian: “Madrid”
  • Wu Chinese: “马德里自治区”
  • Yue Chinese: “馬德里自治區”
  • “Cemāxcāyōtl Madrid”
  • “Madrid”

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