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 |
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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 |
Population development of the province
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Individual evidence
- ↑ 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).