Villarreal

Also known as Vila Real, Villareal

Villarreal, officially in Catalan and officially Villarreal in English and Spanish, is a town and municipality in the province of Castellón which is part of the Valencian Community in the east of Spain.

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Villarreal is a town and municipality located in the province of Castellón in the Valencian Community of eastern Spain. It is notable as a significant local administrative center in this region of Spain.

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Key facts

Settlement.name: Villarreal
Settlement.settlement_type: Town and municipality
Settlement.native_name: ''''''
Settlement.image_skyline: Vila-real Vila Square 10.JPG
Settlement.image_caption: Villarreal, Vila Square and Sant Jaume Street
Settlement.image_flag: Flag of Catalonia.svg
Settlement.image_shield: Escut de Vila-real.svg
Settlement.map_caption: Location of Villarreal
Settlement.pushpin_map: Spain Province of Castellón#Spain Valencia#Spain
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: Spain
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Autonomous community
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Valencian Community
Settlement.subdivision_type2: Province
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Castellón
Settlement.subdivision_type3: Comarca
Settlement.subdivision_name3: Plana Baixa
Settlement.subdivision_type4: Judicial district

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Wikidata facts

Official name: Villareal de los Infantes
Demonym: villarrealense
Country: Spain
Located in: Castellón
Continent: Europe
Official language: Spanish
Population: 53623
Area: 55.12
Elevation: 42
Time zone: UTC+02:00
Body of water: Mijares River
Shares border with: Almassora
Founded by: James I of Aragon
Official website: www.vila-real.es
Image: Basilica s. pascual.JPG
Licence plate code: CS
Patron saint: Our Lady of Graces

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Commons category: Vila-real
topic's main category: Category:Vila-real
postal code: 12540
category for people who died here: Category:Deaths in Villarreal
category of associated people: Category:People from Villarreal
Commons gallery: Vila-real
phone number: +34-964-54-70-00
inception: 1274-00-00
category for people born here: Category:Births in Vila-real
native label: Vila-real
twinned administrative body: Sacile
described by source: Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
male population: 25282
female population: 25611
P8168: Robert C. Prim
different from: Legutio
P12749: Anadyr

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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents

Etymology
History
Main sights
Economy
Sport
Notes
References
External links

The town is located at 42 m above sea level, 7 km to the south of the province's capital (Castelló de la Plana). Villarreal is separated from Castelló de la Plana by the Millars River. It has 51,367 inhabitants (2010 data), most of them living in the urban area that covers about 10.7% of its ''comarca's 55.4 km2 surface. Ranked by population, it is the second-largest city in the province (after the capital), and fifteenth in the Valencian Community.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Villarreal” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.