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SPAIN (Europe)
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Widely known for Flamenco music and dance, bull-fights, fantastic beaches and lots of sunshine, Spain has just about every ingredient for the holiday maker. Travel is easy, accommodation plentiful, the climate benign, the people relaxed, the beaches long and sandy, the food and drink easy to come by and full of regional variety. More than 50 million foreigners a year visit Spain, yet you can also travel for days and hear nothing but Spanish.
Area: 504,780 sq km
Population: 39,644,000
Capital: Madrid. Population 3,500,000 people
Currency: The euro; formerly the Spanish peseta.
Language: Castilian (generally known as Spanish), as well as regional languages in Galicia (Galician), the Basque Lands (Basque), Catalunya (Catalan).
Visa: No visas are necessary for EU nationals staying a maximum of three months.
Geography: Spain consists of the Spanish mainland, which occupies most of the Iberian peninsula (Portugal has the south-western edge), the Balearic islands (Ibiza, Formentera, Mallorca and Menorca) in the Mediterranean and the Canary Islands (La Palma, Tenerife, Gomera, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and Hierro) in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Morocco.
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