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Province o Valencia

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Province o València

Provincia de València (in Spaingie)
Província de València (in error: {{Airtin leid}}: unrecognised leid code: vl)
Ágora, Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias, Valencia, España.
Ágora, Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias, Valencia, España.
Coat of airms o Province o València
Coat airms
Map o Spain wi Province o València heichlichtit
Map o Spain wi Province o València heichlichtit
KintraSpain
Autonomous commontyValencie
CaipitalValencia
Area
 • Total10,763 km2 (4,156 sq mi)
Area rankRankit
 2.13% of Spain
Population
 (2013)
 • Total2,566,474[1]
 • RankRankit
 5.45% of Spain
Demonym(s)valencians
Offeecial leid(s)Spaingie an Valencie
PairlamentCortes Generales
Map o the province o Valencia an its main touns. The first croun o Valencia metropolitan aurie is drawn in daurk broun.

Valencia (Spaingie: [baˈlenθja]) or València (Valencian: [vaˈlensia]) is a province o Spain, in the central pairt o the Valencie Commonty.

It is bordered b the provinces o Alicante, Albacete, Cuenca, Teruel, Castellón, an the Mediterranean Sea. The northwastren side o the province is in the muntainous Sistema Ibérico aurie.

Pairt o its territory, the Rincón de Ademuz, is an exclave sandwiched atween the provinces o Cuenca an Teruel.

O the province's 2,587,503 fowk, ane-third live in the caipital, Valencia, which is the caipital o the autonomous commonty an aw. Thare are 265 municipalities in the province. See Leet o municipalities in Valencia.

The province is historically subdividit intae comarques:

Coordinates: 39°20′N 0°50′W / 39.333°N 0.833°W / 39.333; -0.833

  1. Population Figures referring to Municipal Register 1 January 2013 - Instituto Nacional de Estadística. (National Statistics Institute)