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 AREA AND POPULATION

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Area and Population.

Contmental Spain has an area of 190,050 square miles, but including the Balearic and Canary Islands and the Spanish possessions on the north and west coast of Africa, the total area is 194,783 square miles. The growth of the population has been as follows : —

Census year

Population

Increase

Eate of annual increase

1857

15,464,340

—

—

1860

15,673,481

209,141

0-39

1877

16,634,345

960,864

36

1887

17,565,632

931,287

0-56

1897

18,132,475

566,843

0-32

1900

18,618,086

485,611

0-89

1910

19,588,688

970,602

0-88

Area and

population of the

'orty-nine provinces :-

-

Area in

Popula- tion,

Census 1910

Pop.

Area in

Popula-

Pop.

Province

square miles

per sq. i mile

Province

square miles

Census 1910

per sq. mile

Alava

1,175

96,511

82-0

LogroHo.

1,946

188,285

96-7

Albacete.

5,737

259,074

41-3

Lugo

3,814

445,031

116-7

Alicante.

' 2,185

483,986

215-1

Madrid

3,084

871,308

282-5

Almeria.

3,360

354,344

106-8

Malaga ,

2,812

504,683

179-4

AvUa

1 3,042

209,022

65-9

Murcia.

4,453

600,744

112-4

Badajoz.

' 8,451

561,897

66-4 1

Navarra.

4,055

312,020

75-8

Baleares.

1,935

325,703

161-1 !

Orense.

2,694

406,648

150-1

Barcelona

! 2,968

1,133,883

381-3 :

Oviedo.

4,205

686,132

162-3

Burgos.

1 5,480

395,710

72-2 1

Palencia.

3,256

195,476

59-1

Caceres.

1 7,667

395,082

47-2

Pontevedra.

1,695

465,542

274-7

Cadiz & Ceuta.

i 2,834

467,836

165-0

Salamanca

4,829

327,100

66-4

Canarias.

2,807

419,800

127-5

Santander

2,108

30n,005

142-3

Castellon.

2,495

320,338

124-5 !

Segovia.

2,635

1«7,759

60-4

Ciudad-Real.

7,620

368,492

42-2

Sevilla.

5,428

587,186

100-4

Cordoba.

5,299

490,647

85-8

Soria

3,983

156,555

39-0

Coriina.

3,051

658.201

215-7 !

Tarragona

2,505

339,042

135-3

Cuenca.

6,636

268,458

37-6 i

Teruel.

5,720

255,408

43-0

Gerona.

2,264

318,622

140-7 !

Toledo.

5,919

392,307

66-3

Granada.

4,928

503,898

99-9

Valencia.

4,150

810,266

195-2

Guadalajara.

4,676

208,447

42-8

Valladolid

2,922

283,394

96-9

Guipiizcoa

728

225,271

269-0

Vizcaya (Biscay)

836

349,706

418-3

Huelva.

3,913

309,744

79-1

Zamora.

4,097

272,143

67-2

Huesca.

5,848

247,027

41-8

Zaragoza.

6,726

448,198

66-6

Jaen

5,203 5,936

514.368 393,888

98-8 66-8

Leon

Lerida.

4,690

283,486

60-4

Total

194,783

19,588,688

100-5

The population of Ceuta (13,000) is included in that of Cadiz. Besides Ceuta, Spain has, on the African Coast, the Alhucema isles (pop. 353), the Chaferinas (652), Melilla (8,956), Penon de la Gomera (321), and Rio de Ore (130). The North African possessions are no longer used as convict stations, the centuries old " Presidios" having been suppressed by a recent Decree and the prisoners brought back to the Peninsula. The Basques 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.

The following were the populations of the principal towns (Census 1910), viz. : —