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Catalonia Catalonia is one of the seventeen autonomous communities in the Kingdom of Spain. Catalonia borders France and Andorra to the north, Aragon to the west, the Valencian Community to the south and is bounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the east – having 580km of coastline. It covers an area of some 32K km and has a population of around 7. 5 million. Catalonia is a historic region encompassing the northeastern Spanish provincias of Gerona, Barcelona, Tarragona and Lerida, with Barcelona the capital of the region.

The official languages are Spanish (Castilian), Catalan and Aranese. Catalonia was formerly a principality of the crown of Aragon, and it has played an important role in the history of the Iberian Peninsula – from the 17th century it has been the centre of a separatist movement that often dominated Spanish affairs. Catalonia occupies a triangular area in the northeastern corner of Spain – it is separated from France by the Pyrenees, and to the west, the pre-Pyrenees and the Ebro River basin mark the border with Aragon.

To the southwest the Ebro Basin leads to the coastal hill which mark the border of the Catalonian provincia (province) of Tarragona with the Valencian provincia of Castellon. The provinces of Tarragona, Barcelona and Gerona have a Mediterranean coastline, with the coastal plains leading to the Catalanides ranges. North of the Catalanides is a high tableland of which most is the Lerida provincia.