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Barcelona Province
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province in Catalonia, Spain
Barcelona Province is an administrative region in the northeastern Spanish community of Catalonia that includes the city of Barcelona and surrounding areas. It matters as one of Spain's most economically important and densely populated provinces, serving as a major center for commerce, industry, and culture in the Mediterranean region.
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Official website
Diputación de Barcelona, institución de gobierno local - Diputació de Barcelona
Institución de gobierno local que impulsa el progreso y el bienestar de los ciudadanos de la provincia de Barcelona, 311 municipios en red.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- province of Spain
- Demonym
- barcelonines
- Country
- Spain
- Located in
- Catalonia
- Capital
- Barcelona
- Population
- 5899063
- Area
- 7726.36
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Body of water
- Mediterranean Sea
- Shares border with
- Province of Tarragona
- Highest point
- Pic de Costa Cabirolera
- Official website
- www.diba.cat/es
- Image
- PiC-Serra-rb.catalunya-1340-01.jpg
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- category for films shot at this location
- Category:Films shot in the province of Barcelona
- executive body
- Provincial Deputation of Barcelona
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- category of associated people
- Category:People from the Province of Barcelona
- category for people who died here
- Category:Deaths in the province of Barcelona
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in the province of Barcelona
- Commons category
- Province of Barcelona
- postal code
- 08
- topic's main category
- Category:Province of Barcelona
- Commons gallery
- Provincia de Barcelona
- lowest point
- sea level
- list of monuments
- list of Bien de Interés Cultural in the Province of Barcelona
- inception
- 1822-00-00
- P12749
- Skywriter
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Encyclopedic overview
Barcelona ( Catalan: [bəɾsəˈlonə] ; Spanish: [baɾθeˈlona]) is a province in northeastern Spain, in the center of the autonomous community of Catalonia. The province is bordered by the provinces of Tarragona, Lleida, and Girona, and by the Mediterranean Sea. The area of the province is 7,726.37 km (2,983.17 sq mi), and the population is 5,877,672, of which 28.7% is in the city of Barcelona itself, which itself is contained in the Barcelona metropolitan area. It is both the 2nd most populous and 2nd most densely populated province in the country.
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