EVERY AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY IS DIFFERENT

People in Spain speak Castilian Spanish.
In some Communities, people also speak another language, for example, Catalan, Valencian, Basque, Galician or Aranese.
All Autonomous Communities are governed by national laws and institutions.

PROVINCES

Each Autonomous Community is divided into one, or several, provinces.
A province is larger than a comarca and consists of many municipalities.
Each province has a provincial capital.

AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITIES

Each Autonomous Community is an area with its own capital city and its own government institutions.
It also has its own symbols: a coat of arms and a flag.

SPAIN'S TERRITORIAL DIVISIONS

Spain is divided into seventeen Autonomous Communities.
It also has two Autonomous Cities, Ceuta and Melilla, in North Africa.
Fifteen Autonomous Communities are on the peninsula: Andalusia, Aragon, Basque Country, Cantabria, Castile - Leon, Castile - La Mancha, Catalonia, Chartered Community of Navarre, Community of Madrid, Community of Valencia, Extremadura, Galicia, Principality of Asturias, Region de Murcia and Rioja.
Two are insular communities: the Canary Islands and the Balearic Islands.