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SPAIN
Area and Population. The following table gives the area and population of each of the forty-nine provinces into which the Kingdom is divided, accordina: to the census of 1887 : — -
Area in
Total
Pop.
Area in
Total
Pop.
Province
square
Popula-
per sq.
Province
square
Popula-
per sq.
miles
tion, 1887
mile
miles
tion, 1887
mile
Alava
1,205
92,915
78 i
Logrono .
1,945
181,465
93
Albacete .
5,972
229,102
39 j
Lugo
3,787
432,165
113
Alicante .
2,098
433,050
206
Madrid .
2,997
682,644
228
Alnieria .
3,302
339,452
102
Malaga .
2,824
519,977
183
Avila
2,981
193,093
64
Murcia .
4,478
491,436
109
Badajoz .
i 8,687
481.508
55
Navarra .
6,046
304,122
50
Baleares .
1,860
312,593
168
Orense .
2,739
405,127
147
Barcelona
2,985
902,970
301
Oviedo .
4,091
595,420
145
Burgos .
5,650
338,551
59 42
Palencia .
3,126
188,845
60
Caceres .
8,013
339,793
Pontevedra .
1,739
443,385
254
Cadiz
2,809
429,872
152
Salamanca
4.940
314,472
63
Canarias .
2,808
291,625
102
Santandcr
2,113
244,274
114
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Segovia .
2,714
154,443
56
Plana .
2,446
292,437
110
1 Sevilla .
5,295
.544,815
102
Cindad-Real .
7,840
292,291
37
i S6ria
3,836
151,530
39
Coi'doba .
5,190
420,728
81
- Tarragona
2,451
348,579
142
Coruiia .
3,079
613,881
199
Teruel .
5,491
241,865
44
Cuenca .
6,725
242,460
35
i Toledo .
5,586
359,562
64
Gerona .
2,272
306,583
134
1 Valencia .
4,352
733,978
168
Granada .
' 4,937
484,638
98
Valladolid
3,043
267,148
87
Guadalajara .
4,870
201,518
41
Vizcaya .
849
235,659
277
Guipuzcoa
728
181,845
249
Zamora .
4,135
270,072
65
Huelva .
4,122
254.831
61
Zaragoza.
6,607
415,195
62
Huesca .
5,878
255il37
43
N. & W. Coast
Jaen
5,184
437,842
84
of Africa
13
5,280
391
Leon
6,107
380,637 285,417
61
L6rida .
4,775
59
Total
197,670
17,565,632
88
There were in 1887, 8,612,524 males and 8,953,108 females.
The legal population as distinct from the population present was returned at 17,673,838. The area of continental Spain is 491, 100 square miles, and its population (1887) 16,945,786.
The population of Ceuta, included in that of Cadiz, is 9,694. Besides Ceuta, Spain has, on the African Coast, the Port of Peiion de Velez, the Alhucemas and Chafarinas Islands, and the port of Melilla. These African possessions are used chiefly as convict stations. According to the census returns of 1887, there were in Spain at that date 42,395 resident foreigners — the mass of them in four provinces — namely, Barcelona, Cadiz, Gerona, and Madrid. The Ba.sques in the North, numbering 440,000, differ in race and language from the rest of Spain ; there are 60,000 Morescoes in the South, 50,000 gipsies, and a small number of Jews.
In 1789 tlie jiopulation was estimated to number 10,061,480 ; in 1820 it was 11,000,000 ; in 1828, 13,698,029 ; in 1846, 12,168,774, and it was at the census of 1860, 15,658,531. At the census of 1877 the population amounted to 16,634,345, being an increase of 976,814 in the course of seventeen years, or at the rate of about 0-35 per cent, per annum ; in 1887 it was 17,565,632, being an increase of 831,287 in ten years, or at the rate of 0*47 per cent, per anntim.
The following were the populations of the principal towns in 1887, vi'^. :—
