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1 day ago · Barcelona ( / ˌbɑːrsəˈloʊnə / ⓘ BAR-sə-LOH-nə, Catalan: [bəɾsəˈlonə] ⓘ, Spanish: [baɾθeˈlona] ⓘ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within city ...
9 hours ago · The history of Futbol Club Barcelona begins from the football club 's founding in 1899 up until the present day. FC Barcelona, also known simply as Barcelona and familiarly as Barça, is based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The club was founded in 1899 by a group of Swiss, Catalan, German, and English footballers led by Joan Gamper.
9 hours ago · Galicia ( / ɡəˈlɪʃ ( i) ə / gə-LISH (-ee)-ə; [3] Galician: Galicia (officially) [ɡaˈliθjɐ] ⓘ or Galiza [ɡaˈliθɐ] ⓘ; [a] [b] Spanish: Galicia) is an autonomous community of Spain and historic nationality under Spanish law. [4] Located in the northwest Iberian Peninsula, it includes the provinces of A Coruña, Lugo, Ourense ...
9 hours ago · Xinjiang, [a] officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, [11] [12] is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the northwest of the country at the crossroads of Central Asia and East Asia.
9 hours ago · The full name of the state is Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave. Veracruz was named after the city of Veracruz (From Latin Vera Crux, "True Cross"), which was originally called the Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz. The suffix is in honor of Ignacio de la Llave y Segura Zevallos (1818–1863), who was the governor of Veracruz from 1861 to 1862.
1 day ago · The Canary Islands ( / kəˈnɛəri /, Spanish: Canarias, Spanish: [kaˈnaɾjas] ), also known informally as the Canaries, are a Spanish region, autonomous community and archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean. At their closest point to the African mainland, they are 100 kilometres (62 miles) west of Morocco and the Western Sahara.
1 day ago · The Basque language is spoken by 806,000 Basques in all territories. Of these, 93.7% (756,000) are in the Spanish area of the Basque Country and the remaining 6.3% (50,000) are in the French portion. [1] Basque is considered the most spoken language isolate in the world.
