Province of Castellón

Castellón Valencia ,  Spain
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Designations
Spanish name :	Castellón
Valencian name :	Castelló
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Valencia
Capital :	Castellón de la Plana
Official languages :	Spanish , Valencian
Area :	6,632 km²
Residents :	579,962 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density :	87.45 inhabitants / km²
ISO 3166-2 :	ES-CS
Website :	www.dipcas.es
Location of the province of Castellón

Castellón ( Spanish name; Valencian Castelló ) is a province in the Spanish autonomous region of Valencia . It has 579,962 inhabitants (January 1, 2019). Its capital is Castellón de la Plana .

geography

The province of Castellón lies on the Mediterranean coast. It borders in the north on Catalonia ( province of Tarragona ), in the west on Aragon ( province of Teruel ) and in the south on the province of Valencia . The provincial capital is Castellón de la Plana .

In Castellón, in the village of Tirig , the Cova dels Cavalls is home to the second most important cave paintings in Spain after Altamira .

languages

As in the other two provinces of the Valencia region ( Alicante , Valencia ), in Castellón, besides Spanish, Valencian is spoken. Valencian has been the official language in the entire Region of Valencia since 1982 .

Administrative division and largest places

The province of Castellón is divided into eight comarcas , which are administrative districts.

• Comarca : Spanish (and Valencian) name / capital
• Alcalatén (L'Alcalaten) / Alcora
• Alto Maestrazgo (Old Maestrat) / Albocácer
• Alto Mijares (L'Alt Millars) / Cirat
• Alto Palancia (L'Alt Palància) / Segorbe
• Bajo Maestrazgo ( Baix Maestrat ) / Vinaroz
• Plana Alta (Plana Alta) / Castellón de la Plana
• Plana Baja (Plana Baixa) / Burriana
• Los Puertos de Morella (Els Ports) / Morella

A map can be found under Political structure in the article Valencian Community .

Municipalities with more than 10,000 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019)

Valencian name	Spanish name	Residents	Larger places in the province of Castellón
Castelló de la Plana	Castellón de la Plana	171,728
Vila-real	Villarreal	50,893
Borriana	Burriana	34,683
La Vall d'Uixó	Vall de Uxó	31,660
Vinaròs	Vinaroz	28,682
Benicarló	Benicarló	26,912
Almassora	Almazora	26,270
Onda	Onda	24,859
Benicàssim	Benicasim	18.192
Nules	Nules	13,103
L'Alcora	Alcora	10,405

Population development of the province

Web links

Commons : Province of Castellón  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• All places in Castellón
• Spain's General Newspaper, Regional News on Castellón
• Diputación provincial de Castellón

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).

Coordinates: 40 ° 10 ′  N , 0 ° 10 ′  W