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Kingdom of Spain
Madrid
504,780 sq km

Mulhacen 3,478 m
Temperate; cold winters on the Meseta

39,664,00
0.2% per year
Males 74, females 80 years
Castilian spanish, basque, catalan, galician

Peseta = 100 centimos
262 people
GMT
1.7% GNP



FACTS ON SPAIN

 
  • A single sausage measuring 5,917 feet in length was cooked in Barcalona 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 teminal.
  • 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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