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Jun 29, 2024 · Balearic Islands, archipelago in the western Mediterranean Sea and an autonomous community of Spain coextensive with the Spanish province of the same name. The Balearic Islands autonomous community was established by the statute of autonomy of 1983. Palma is the capital.
The archipelago forms a province and autonomous community of Spain, with Palma de Mallorca being its capital and largest city. Formerly part of the Kingdom of Mallorca, the islands were made a province in the 19th century provincial division, which in 1983 received a Statute of Autonomy.
Palma (Catalan:; Spanish:), also known as Palma de Mallorca (officially between 1983 and 1988, 2006–2008, and 2012–2016), is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands in Spain. It is situated on the south coast of Mallorca on the Bay of Palma.
Mar 10, 2021 · Mallorca (also spelled Majorca) is the largest island on the archipelago, spanning 3,640 km 2. It is bordered to the northeast by Menorca, southwest by Ibiza, southeast by Cabrera Island, and west by Dragonera. Palma, Mallorca’s capital, is also the Balearic Islands autonomous community’s capital.
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Jun 15, 2024 · Palma, city, capital of the Balearic Islands provincia (province) and comunidad autónoma (autonomous community), Spain, in the western Mediterranean Sea. The city lies on the southwestern coast of the island of Majorca in the centre of 10-mile- (16-km-) wide Palma Bay.
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The capital of the island, Palma, is also the capital of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands. The Balearic Islands have been an autonomous region of Spain since 1983. [4] There are two small islands off the coast of Mallorca: Cabrera (southeast of Palma) and Dragonera (west of Palma).
Jun 6, 2019 · Palma de Mallorca (also spelled Majorca) is the capital city of the Spanish Balearic Islands of the Mediterranean. These sunny islands have long been popular as Mediterranean vacation destinations for northern Europeans and those on cruises to the western Mediterranean.
