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Capital: madrid
Country name
: conventional long form: kingdom of spain conventional short form: spain local short form: espana
National holiday: national day. 12 october
Government type
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parliamentary monarchy
Administrative divisions: 17 autonomous communities (comunidades autonomas. singular - comunidad autonoma)and 2 autonomous cities* (ciudades autonomas. singular - ciudad autonoma); andalucia. aragon. asturias. baleares (balearic islands). ceuta*. canarias (canary islands). cantabria. castilla-la mancha. castilla y leon. cataluna. comunidad valenciana. extremadura. galicia. la rioja. madrid. melilla*. murcia. navarra. pais vasco (basque country) note: the autonomous cities of ceuta and melilla plus three small islands of islas chafarinas. penon de alhucemas. and penon de velez de la gomera. administered directly by the spanish central government. are all located along the coast of morocco and are collectively referred to as places of sovereignty (plazas de soberania) |
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Independence:
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Political parties and leaders: basque nationalist party or pnv [josu jon imaz]; canarian coalition or cc (a coalition of five parties) [paulino rivero baute]; convergence and union or ciu [artur mas i gavarro] (a coalition of the democratic convergence of catalonia or cdc [artur mas i gavarro] and the democratic union of catalonia or udc [josep antoni duran y lleida]); entesa catalonia de progress (a senate coalition grouping four catalan parties - psc. erc. icv. eua) [leader na]; galician nationalist bloc or bng [anxo manuel quintana]; party of independents from lanzarote or pil [dimas martin martin]; popular party or pp [mariano rajoy]; republican left of catalonia or erc [josep-lluis carod-rovira]; spanish socialist workers party or psoe [jose luis rodriguez zapatero]; united left or iu (a coalition of parties including the pce and other small parties) [gaspar llamazares]
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Political pressure groups and leaders:
"business and landowning interests; catholic church; free labor unions (authorized in april 1977); socialist general union of workers or ugt and the smaller independent workers syndical union or uso; university students; trade union confederation of workers' commissions or cc.oo.; nunca mas (galician for never again""; formed in response to the oil tanker prestige oil spill)"""
International organization participation
: afdb. asdb. australia group. bcie. bis. ce. cern. eapc. ebrd. eib. emu. esa. eu. fao. iadb. iaea. ibrd. icao. icc. icct. icftu. icrm. ida. iea. ifad. ifc. ifrcs. iho. ilo. imf. imo. interpol. ioc. iom (observer). iso. itu. laia (observer). miga. minustah. monuc. nam (guest). nato. nea. nsg. oas (observer). oecd. onub. opcw. osce. paris club. pca. un. unctad. unesco. unhcr. unido. unmee. unmis. upu. wcl. wco. weu. who. wipo. wmo. wtoo. wto. zc
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