WHERE WE LIVE ACTIVITIES.

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.

DIFFERENT TYPES OF COMARCAS

The municipalities in a comarca share a similar landscape.
There are different types: mountain comarcas, coastal comarcas and comarcas on the plains.

HOW MUNICIPALITIES ARE GROUPED

In Spain, municipalities are grouped into comarcas.
A comarca consists of several municipalities in the same region.
The municipalities in each comarca share similar characteristics: the landscape, traditions and economic activities.
The inhabitants share similar types of jobs: agriculture, stockbreeding, fishing, industry or tourism.
All the inhabitants of a comarca share basic services such as hospitals, markets and schools.

MUNICIPALITIES

We all live in a municipality.
A municipality consists of one or more cities, towns or villages governed by a local council.
Some municipalities are very big.
Others are very small.

REMEMBER

CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
People live in different places; either in a city town or village.

DESCRIBING WHERE YOU LIVE
People live on the coast or inland, in the mountains or on the plains, in the north, south, east or west of a country.
It is important to know how to describe where you live in relation to other towns, cities and villages.