Guadalajara Province

Guadalajara Castile-La Mancha ,  Spain
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Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Castile-La Mancha
Capital :	Guadalajara (Spain)
Official language :	Spanish
Area :	12,212 km²
Residents :	257,762 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density :	21.11 inhabitants / km²
ISO 3166-2 :	ES-GU
Website :	dguadalajara.es
Location of the province of Guadalajara

Guadalajara is a province in central Spain , in the north of the autonomous region of Castile-La Mancha . It extends over an area of ​​12,212.09 km² and has 257,762 inhabitants (2019), of which over 30% live in the capital Guadalajara . Neighboring provinces are Cuenca , Madrid , Segovia , Soria , Saragossa and Teruel . There are a total of 288 parishes in Guadalajara , almost three quarters of which are villages with fewer than 200 inhabitants.

Important sources of income are the rye -, vegetable - and potato cultivation in the mountains and the numerous flocks of sheep . There are also two large hydropower plants on the Tajo River with a total output of more than 1200 megawatts . The Trillo nuclear power plant is also located in the province.

Biggest places

As of January 1, 2019

local community	Residents
Guadalajara	85,871
Azuqueca de Henares	35.009
Alovera	12,735
El Casar	12,062
Cabanillas del Campo	10,442
Villanueva de la Torre	6,573
Marchamalo	7,474
Torrejon del Rey	5,434
Sigüenza	4,309
Molina de Aragon	3,275
Yunquera de Henares	4,044
Pioz	4,052
Chiloeches	3,579

See also : List of municipalities in the province of Guadalajara

Population development of the province

Web links

Commons : Guadalajara Province  - 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).