Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index In addition to its seventeen autonomous communities, Spain is divided into fifty provinces. Formerly of greater importance, since the arrival of the autonomous community system, the provinces have fewer powers. They are still used as electoral districts, in postal addresses, and as geographical referents. (A small town would be identified as being in Valladolid province sooner than as being in Castile-Leon, for example.) Most of the provinces are named after their principal town. There are only two cities that are capitals of autonomous communities without being capitals of provinces: Mérida in Extremadura and Santiago de Compostela in Galicia. Seven autonomous communities are composed of only one province: Asturias, Balearic Islands, Cantabria, La Rioja, Madrid, Murcia, and Navarre. Here is a list of the provinces: Name Capital Autonomous community Munici- palities Álava/Araba Vitoria/Gasteiz Basque Country List Albacete Albacete Castile-La Mancha List Alicante/Alacant Alicante/Alacant Valencia List Almería Almería Andalusia List Asturias Oviedo Asturias List Ávila Ávila Castile-Leon List Badajoz Badajoz Extremadura List Illes Balears Palma de Mallorca Balearic Islands List Barcelona Barcelona Catalonia List Burgos Burgos Castile-Leon List Cáceres Cáceres Extremadura List Cádiz Cádiz Andalusia List Cantabria Santander Cantabria List Castellón/Castelló Castellón/Castelló de la Plana Valencia List Ciudad Real Ciudad Real Castile-La Mancha List Córdoba Córdoba Andalusia List A Coruña A Coruña Galicia List Cuenca Cuenca Castile-La Mancha List Girona Girona Catalonia List Granada Granada Andalusia List Guadalajara Guadalajara Castile-La Mancha List Guipúzcoa/Gipuzkoa San Sebastián/Donostia Basque Country List Huelva Huelva Andalusia List Huesca Huesca Aragon List Jaén Jaén Andalusia List La Rioja Logroño La Rioja List León León Castile-Leon List Lleida Lleida Catalonia List Lugo Lugo Galicia List Madrid Madrid Madrid List Málaga Málaga Andalusia List Murcia Murcia Murcia List Navarra/Nafarroa Pamplona Navarre List Ourense Ourense Galicia List Palencia Palencia Castile-Leon List Las Palmas Las Palmas Canary Islands List Pontevedra Pontevedra Galicia List Salamanca Salamanca Castile-Leon List Santa Cruz de Tenerife Santa Cruz de Tenerife Canary Islands List Segovia Segovia Castile-Leon List Sevilla Seville Andalusia List Soria Soria Castile-Leon List Tarragona Tarragona Catalonia List Teruel Teruel Aragon List Toledo Toledo Castile-La Mancha List Valencia/València Valencia/València Valencia List Valladolid Valladolid Castile-Leon List Vizcaya/Bizkaia Bilbao Basque Country List Zamora Zamora Castile-Leon List Zaragoza Zaragoza Aragon List This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.