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 :-
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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. : —
