Tarragona Province
Tarragona Catalonia , Spain |
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Designations | |
Spanish name : | Tarragona |
Catalan name : | Tarragona |
Basic data | |
Autonomous Community : | Catalonia |
Capital : | Tarragona |
Official languages : | Spanish , Catalan |
Area : | 6,303 km² |
Residents : | 804,664 (Jan 1, 2019) |
Population density : | 127.66 inhabitants / km² |
ISO 3166-2 : | ES-T |
Website : | diputaciodetarragona.net |
Location of the province of Tarragona | |
The province of Tarragona is the southernmost of the four provinces of the Spanish autonomous region of Catalonia . Its capital is the city of Tarragona .
location
The province borders - starting in the north, in a clockwise direction - with the Catalan provinces of Lleida and Barcelona , the Mediterranean Sea , the Valencian province of Castellón and the Aragonese provinces of Teruel and Saragossa .
Cities and Biggest Places
Larger localities besides the capital Tarragona are Reus , Tortosa , El Vendrell , Cambrils , Valls , Amposta , Salou and Calafell .
As of January 1, 2019
local community | Spanish name | Residents |
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Tarragona | Tarragona | 134,515 |
Reus | Reus | 104,373 |
El Vendrell | El Vendrell | 37,606 |
Tortosa | Tortosa | 33,372 |
Cambrils | Cambrils | 33,898 |
Salou | Salou | 27,476 |
Valls | Valls | 24,359 |
Calafell | Calafell | 26,538 |
Vila-seca | Vilaseca | 22,187 |
Amposta | Amposta | 20,738 |
Torredembarra | Torredembarra | 16,184 |
Sant Carles de la Ràpita | San Carlos de la Rápita | 14,789 |
Population development of the province
Administrative division
The province consists of the ten comarques :
Comarca | population | Area in km² | Capital |
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Old camp | 38,824 | 538.0 | Valls |
Baix Camp | 161.090 | 697.1 | Reus |
Baix Ebre | 71,708 | 1,002.7 | Tortosa |
Baix Penedès | 73,665 | 296.2 | El Vendrell |
Conca de Barberà | 19,589 | 650.2 | Montblanc |
Montsià | 61,989 | 735.4 | Amposta |
Priory | 9,521 | 498.6 | Falset |
Ribera d'Ebre | 22,632 | 827.3 | Móra d'Ebre |
Tarragonès | 202,662 | 318.9 | Tarragona |
Terra Alta | 12,464 | 743.4 | Gandesa |
Figures from 2004 according to the "Institute for Statistics Catalonia"
Location of the individual comarques in the province of Tarragona
Web links
Commons : Province of Tarragona - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Tarragona (province) - tourist guide
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).