Catalonia

Catalonia (Catalan: Catalunya; Spanish: Cataluña; Aranese Occitan: Catalonha), is one of the constituent autonomous communities of Spain divided into four provinces: Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, and Tarragona. Catalonia borders France and Andorra to the north, Aragon to the west, and Valencia to the south. To the east there is a 580 km coastline which meets the Mediterranean Sea.

Its territory corresponds to most of the historic territory of the former Principality of Catalonia and the capital is Barcelona. The autonomous community of Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km² with an official population of 7,134,697 (2006) from which immigrants represent an estimated 12.3% of the total population.