Wijbe Visser

Spain

Officially the Kingdom of Spain (Spanish: Reino de España), is a country on the Iberian Peninsula in southwestern Europe. In northeastern Spain, bordering France and Andorra, the entire length of the Pyrenees, in the west of Portugal, in the south to the British colony of Gibraltar and through the enclaves of Melilla and Ceuta in Morocco. The capital of Spain is Madrid, a city with more than 3 million inhabitants located in the center of the country. Spain is a diverse country with diverse cultures, languages, eating habits and climates. The land ranges from the rainy fishing villages in Galicia to the nightlife of Madrid, from the tourist beaches of the Mediterranean to the flamenco of Andalusia and of bullfighting in many parts of the country to the modern Barcelona in Catalonia. Like the Netherlands and Belgium, Spain is a constitutional parliamentary monarchy.