Gipuzkoa

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Gipuzkoa
Basque Country Autonomous Community ,  Spain
Coat of arms of the province of Gipuzkoa
coat of arms 		Flag of the Province of Guipuzcoa
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Designations
Basque name : Gipuzkoa
Spanish name : Guipuzcoa
Basic data
Autonomous Community : Basque Country Autonomous Community
Capital : Donostia-San Sebastian
Official languages : Spanish , Basque
Area : 1,980 km²
Residents : 723,576 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density : 365.44 inhabitants / km²
ISO 3166-2 : ES-SS
Website : gipuzkoa.eus
Location of the province of Gipuzkoa
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Gipuzkoa (Spanish Guipúzcoa ) is one of the three provinces of the Spanish Autonomous Region of the Basque Country . The capital is Donostia-San Sebastián . In Gipuzkoa live 723,576 inhabitants (2019), with 1,980.35 square kilometers it is the smallest of all 50 provinces in Spain.

geography

Gipuzkoa is located in the northeast of the Basque Country Autonomous Region on the coast of the Bay of Biscay , which borders the province to the north.

In the west, Gipuzkoa borders the province of Bizkaia , in the south with Álava , in the east with Navarre and in the far north-east with France . The border with France is only ten kilometers long and is formed by the Bidasoa River.

The landscape is characterized by the Cantabrian Mountains and the most westerly foothills of the Pyrenees , which gradually descend to the sea in a landscape divided into numerous valleys to the northwest. Besides the Bidasoa, the Urumea , the Oria , the Urola and the Deba are important rivers . The entire province has a maritime climate .

Communities

Itzurun Beach

In the list of municipalities in the province of Gipuzkoa , all 88 municipalities in the province are listed with their population.

  • Dolmen in Gipuzkoa
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Biggest places

(As of January 1, 2019)

Basque name Spanish name Residents
Donostia San Sebastian 187.415
Irun Irun 62,401
Errenteria Rentería 39,471
Eibar Éibar 27,522
Zarautz Zarauz 23,323
Arrasate Mondragón 22.001
Hernani Hernani 20,354
Tolosa Tolosa 19,667
Lasarte-Oria Lasarte-Oria 18,380
Hondarribia Fuenterrabía 16,828
Pasaia Pasajes 16,156

Population development of the province

Web links

Commons : Gipuzkoa  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cifras oficiales de población resultantes de la revisión del Padrón municipal a 1 de enero . Population statistics from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (population update).