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Andalusia Andalusia is the most populous of the 17 autonomous communities in Spain with an 8 million population, and is the second largest in terms of land area. Andalusia lies in the south of the Iberian peninsula, just south of the autonomous communities of Extremadura and Castile La Mancha, and west of the Murcia and the Mediterranean Sea, and east of Portugal and the Atlantic, but north of the Mediterranean Sea and Straits of Gibraltar, which separates Spain from Morocco, Africa, and the Atlantic Ocean. The small British overseas territory of Gibraltar shares a border of three quarters of a mile with the Andalusian province of Cadiz. The region of Andalusia is divided into eight provinces: Huelva, Seville, Cadiz, Cordoba, Malaga, Jaen, Granada and Almeria. Andalusia has three main geographical regions: the mountainous Sierra Morena in the north, south of this Upper Andalusia is generally linked to the Baetic Cordillera, and Lower Andalusia linked with the Baetic Depression of the valley of Guadalquivir.

The Atlantic Coast is almost entirely beach and gradually sloping coasts, whilst the Mediterranean coast has many cliffs, especially in the Malaga area, in Granada and Almeria. Andalusia is said to be the birthplace of Spain’s most famous customs and traditions – of Flamenco and Bullfighting. It is also the region where most traces have been left of the centuries of Moorish occupation of Spain (though this in only a small part of the overall history of the area).