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 AREA. AND POPULATION

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vinces and communes. Neither the national executive nor the Cortes have the right to interfere in the established municipal and provincial admini- stration except in the case of the action of the Diputaciones ProvineiaUx and AyurUamientos going beyond the locally limited sphere to the injury of general and permanent interests. In the Basque provinces self-government has been almost abolished since the last civil war, and they are ruled as the rest of Spain. Notwithstanding the provisions of the Constitution pressure is too frequently brought to bear upon the local elections by the Central Government.

Area and Population.

Continental 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

R*te of annual MM

1857

15,464,340

—

—

1860

15,655,467

191,127

0-44

1877

16,631,869

976,402

37

1887

17,560,352

928.483

0-56

1897

18,121,472

561,120

32

1900

18,607,674

486,202

0-89

1910

19,950,817

1.343,143

0-72

Area and population of the forty-nine provinces : —

Alara Albacete. Alicante. Alraena. Avila Badajoz. Baleares. Barcelona Burgos Caceres. Cadiz &Ceuta. Canarias. Castellon. Ciudad-Real Cordoba. Coruna. Cuenca. Gerona Granada. Guadalajara Guipiizcoa Huelva. Huesca. Jaen Leon Lerida

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Estimated Popula- tion. Dec 31, 1919 !

Pop.

persq.

mile

Province

1,175 5,737 2,185 3,360 3,042 8,451 1,935

■:.•.- a

5,480 7,667 2,834 2,807 2,495 7,620 5,299 3,051 6,636 2,264 4.928 4.676 728 3,913

5,936 4,690

96,922

' 497,001

210,649 650,339 331,195

345,156 424.47> 476,5?3 520,516 315,065 4 S3. 056 539,125

o,- 1,77a

2"4.C'73 545,217

346,724 244. S63 668.652 391,855 292.423

82-5 50-3

1152

69 2

76-9

1711

403-2

630

55-3

1678

1S5-4

1262

56S

1015

226-4

42-9

1466

1107

45 8

347-7

68 6

41-8

109-2

66

62-1

Logrofio. Lugo Madrid. Malaga. Murcia. Navarra. Orense Oviedo. Palencia. Pontevedra Salamanca Santander Segovia. Se villa. 8oria

Tarragona Teruel. Toledo. Valencia. Valladolid Viz cava (Biscay) Zamora. Zaragoza.

Area in square miles

1.946 3,814 3,084 2.812 4.453 4.055

4,205 3.256 1.695 4.829 2,108 2.635 5.42S 3,983 2,505 5,720 5,919 4,150

836

4.097 6.726

Estimated Popula- tion, Dec 31, 1919

182.3S9 474,037 •J63,560

316,144

196,556 515,984 333,452 323,641 170,817

tM,m

157,547 32y,079

J65,( n

444,156

383,6i<2 479,454

Pop.

per aq.

mile

93-7 124-2 312 1 187 5 1419

77-9 1517 1706

60-9 3044

69-0 1535

64 8 1155

39-5 131-3

445

750 222-4 96-6 4589

64-2

71-2

Total

194.783 20,783,844 106-6

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