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Official name: Kingdom of Spain
Capital City : Madrid
Area : 504,780 sq km
Highest point: Mulhacen 3,478 m
Climate : Temperate; cold winters on the Meseta
Population : 39,664,00
population Change: 0.2% per year
Life Expectancy : Males 74, females 80 years
Languages : Castilian Spanish, Basque, Catalan, Galician
Currency : Peseta = 100 centimos
Population per Doctor : 262 people
Time Zone :
Military Expenditure 1.7% GNP


A single sausage measuring 5,917 feet in length was cooked in Barcelona Spain on September 22, 1986.

There is a church in Spain that allows worshippers to make donations via a "hole in the wall" credit card terminal.

In Spain it is considered bad to profit from a spouse's death therefore making it hard to sell life insurance.

The Queen of Spain, Juana la Loca, loved her husband so much that she carried around his body after he died and kept checking it for signs of life. She even kissed the corpse to bring it back to life!

The Spanish word for Beer is "Cerveza".

The most valuable natural resource of Spain is the soil, with nearly one-third of the land suitable for cultivation.

The country also has many mineral resources, including hard and brown coal, small petroleum and natural gas deposits, iron ore, uranium, mercury, pyrites, fluorspar, gypsum, zinc, lead, tungsten, copper, and potash

 

 

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