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
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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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