A Coruña
A Coruña
A Coruña (Galician) | |
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Municipality | |
City hall Tower of Hercules Glass galleries | |
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Seal Coat of arms | |
| Nickname: A Cidade de Cristal (The Glass City) | |
| Motto(s): A Coruña, a cidade onde ninguén é forasteiro (A Coruña, the city where nobody is an outsider) | |
Location of A Coruña | |
A Coruña A Coruña | |
| Coordinates: 43°21′54″N 8°24′36″W / 43.365°N 8.410°W | |
| Country | Spain |
| Autonomous community | Galicia |
| Province | A Coruña |
| Comarca | A Coruña |
| Parishes | A Coruña, Elviña, Oza, San Cristovo das Viñas, Visma |
| Government | |
| • Type | Ayuntamiento |
| • Body | Concello da Coruña |
| • Mayor | Inés Rey (PSdeG-PSOE) |
| Area | |
• Municipality | 37.83 km2 (14.61 sq mi) |
| Population (2024)[1] | |
• Municipality | 250,438 |
| • Density | 6,613/km2 (17,130/sq mi) |
| • Metro | 452,114 |
| Demonyms | corunnan (en) coruñés, coruñesa (gl / es) |
| GDP | |
| • Metro | €25.231 billion (2020) |
| Time zone | CET (GMT +1) |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (GMT +2) |
| Postcode | 15001-15011 |
| Area codes | +34 981 and +34 881 |
| Website | www |
A Coruña (Galician pronunciation: [ɐ koˈɾuɲɐ] ⓘ;[a] Spanish: La Coruña [la koˈɾuɲa] ⓘ; also informally called just Coruña; historical English: Corunna or The Groyne) is a city and municipality in Galicia, Spain. It is Galicia's second largest city, behind Vigo.[5] The city is the provincial capital of the province of A Coruña, having also served as political capital of the Kingdom of Galicia[6][7] from the 16th to the 19th centuries, and as a regional administrative centre between 1833 and 1982.
A Coruña is located on a promontory in the Golfo Ártabro, a large gulf on the Atlantic Ocean. It is the main industrial and financial centre of northern Galicia, and holds the headquarters of the Universidade da Coruña. A Coruña is the Spanish city featuring the tallest mean-height of buildings,[8] also featuring a population density of 21,972 inhabitants per square kilometre (56,910/sq mi) of built land area.[9]
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- ^ "Gross domestic product (GDP) at current market prices by metropolitan regions". ec.europa.eu.
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- ^ "Las ciudades más grandes de Galicia en cuanto al número de habitantes". Galiciamaxica (in Spanish). 9 June 2020.
- ^ "A Coruña, capital militar y administrativa del Reino..." de Artaza, Manuel María (1998). Rey, reino y representación: la Junta General del Reino de Galicia (1599–1834). Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. p. 71. ISBN 978-84-00-07779-2.
- ^ "The city of Corunna, Armory, Capital, and Head of the Kingdom of Galicia..." (1748), in Vigo Trasancos, Alfredo (1998). "El capitán general Pedro Martín Cermeño y el Reino de Galicia". Semata Ciencias Socias e Humanidades. 10: 177.
- ^ Sánchez, Raúl; Plaza, Analía (28 September 2021). "España vive en pisos: por qué hemos construido nuestras ciudades en vertical". eldiario.es. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
- ^ Sánchez, Raúl; Plaza, Analía (29 September 2021). "El mapa de las alturas de todos los edificios de España: busca tu barrio". eldiario.es.
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