Flag Coat of arms Motto: "Plus Ultra"  (Latin) "Further Beyond" Anthem: ""Marcha Real"  (Spanish) "Royal March"

Location of  Spain  (dark green) – on the European continent  (light green & dark grey) – in the European Union  (light green)  —  [Legend] Capital (and largest city) Madrid 40°26'N, 3°42'W Official languages Spanish[2] Ethnic groups  89% Spanish, 11% minority groups Demonym Spanish, Spaniard Government Parliamentary democracy and Constitutional monarchy  -  Monarch King Juan Carlos I  -  President of    the Government José L. Rodríguez Zapatero Formation 15th century   -  Unification 1469   -  Dynastic union 1516   -    de facto 1716   -    de jure 1812  EU accession January 1, 1986 Area  -  Total 504,030 km² (51st) 195,364 sq mi   -  Water (%) 1.04 Population  -  2007 estimate 45,200,737[1] (28th)  -  Density 90 people/km² (106th) 231/sq mi GDP (PPP) 2007[2] estimate  -  Total $1.310 trillion (11th)  -  Per capita $33,700 (2007) (27th) GDP (nominal) 2007[3] estimate  -  Total $1.439 trillion (8th)  -  Per capita $31,471 (2007) (26th) Gini (2005) 32[4]  HDI (2005) 0.949 (high) (13th) Currency Euro (€) ³ (EUR) Time zone CET4 (UTC+1)  -  Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2) Internet TLD .es, .cat5 Calling code +34 1 Also serves as the Royal anthem. 2 In some autonomous communities, Aranese (Occitan), Basque, Catalan/Valencian, and Galician are co-official languages. 3 Prior to 1999 (by law, 2002) : Spanish Peseta. 4 Except in the Canary Islands, which are in the WET time zone (UTC, UTC+1 in summer). 5 The .eu domain is also used, as it is shared with other European Union member states. also .cat is used catalan speaking territories Spain (Spanish: España (help·info), IPA: [es'pa?a]) or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España),[5] is a country located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. The Spanish mainland is bordered to the south and east almost entirely by the Mediterranean Sea (except for a tiny land boundary with Gibraltar); to the north by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay; and to the west by the Atlantic Ocean and Portugal. Spanish territory also includes the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean, the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean off the African coast, and two autonomous cities in North Africa, Ceuta and Melilla, that border Morocco. With an area of 504,030 km², Spain is the second largest country in Western Europe (behind France) and with an average altitude of 650 m, the second highest country in Europe (behind Switzerland). Spain is a constitutional monarchy organised as a parliamentary democracy, and has been a member of the European Union since 1986. It is a developed country with the eighth largest economy in the world and fifth largest in the EU, based on nominal GDP.[6]