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Andalusie

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Banner o Andalusie
Banner
Coat o airms o Andalusie
Coat airms
Motto(s): 
Andalucía por sí, para España y la humanidad[1]
Anthem: La bandera blanca y verde
Location o Andalusie athin Spain
Location o Andalusie athin Spain
Coordinates: 37°23′N 5°59′W / 37.383°N 5.983°W / 37.383; -5.983
Kintra Spain
CaipitalSeville
Govrenment
 • BodiJunta de Andalucía
 • PresesJosé Antonio Griñán (PSOE)
Area
(17.2% o Spain)
 • Total87268 km2 (33,694 sq mi)
Area rank2nt
Population
 (2011)[2]
 • Total8,424,102
 • Rank1st
 • Density97/km2 (250/sq mi)
 • Percent
17.84% o Spain
Demonym(s)Andalusie, andaluz (m), andaluza (f)
Demonym
ISO 3166-2
AN
Offeecial leidsSpaingie
Statute o Autonomy30 December 1981,
2002 (statute revised),
2007 (revised again)[3]
LegislaturPairlament o Andalusie
Congress62 deputies (o 350)
Senate40 senators (o 264)
Websitewww.juntadeandalucia.es

Andalusie (lang; Spaingie: Andalucía, IPA: [andaluˈθi.a] or [andaluˈsi.a]) is the maist populous an the seicont lairgest in aurie o the autonomous commonties o Spain. The Andalusie autonomous commonty is offeecially recognised as a naitionality o Spain.[4] The territory is dividit intae aicht provinces: Huelva, Seville, Cádiz, Córdoba, Málaga, Jaén, Granada an Almería. Its caipital an lairgest ceety is Seville (Spaingie: Sevilla).

Andalusie is in the sooth o the Iberie Peninsulae, immediately sooth o the autonomous communities o Extremadura an Castile-La Mancha; wast o the autonomous commonty o Murcie an the Mediterranean Sea; east o Portugal an the Atlantic Ocean; an north o the Mediterranean Sea an the Strait o Gibraltar, whilk separates Spain frae Morocco, an the Atlantic Ocean. The sma Breetish owerseas territory o Gibraltar skares a three-quarter-mile land mairch wi the Andalusie province o Cádiz at the eastren end o the Strait o Gibraltar.

Andalusia haes three major geographic subregions. In the north, the muntainous Sierra Morena separates Andalusie frae the plains o Extremadura an Castile-La Mancha on Spain's Meseta Central. Sooth o that, ane can distinguish Upper Andalusie, generally the Baetic Seestem, frae Lawer Andalusie wi its Baetic Depression o the glen o the Guadalquivir.

References

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  1. "Himno y escudo". Junta de Andalucia. Archived frae the original on 15 October 2012. Retrieved 19 Mairch 2017.
  2. "Official Population Figures of Spain. Population on the 1 January 2009" (PDF). Instituto Nacional de Estadística de España. Archived (PDF) frae the original on 11 Juin 2009. Retrieved 3 Juin 2009. Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (help)
  3. Magone, José (2008). Contemporary Spanish Politics. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-0-415-42189-8.
  4. Boletín Oficial del Estado of Spain, n. 68 of 2007/03/20, p. 11872. Estatuto de Autonomía de Andalucía. Artículo 1: «Andalucía, como nacionalidad histórica y en el ejercicio del derecho de autogobierno que reconoce la Constitución, se constituye en Comunidad Autónoma en el marco de la unidad de la nación española y conforme al artículo 2 de la Constitución.»

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