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Section sizes

Section size for Spain (57 sections)
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(Top)	21,843	21,843
Etymology	3,182	3,182
History	41	65,906
Prehistory and pre-Roman peoples	3,424	3,424
Roman Hispania and the Visigothic Kingdom	4,536	4,536
Muslim era and Reconquista	7,465	7,465
Spanish Empire	9,109	12,964
18th century	3,855	3,855
Liberalism and nation state	10,531	10,531
Civil War and Francoist dictatorship	5,097	5,097
Restoration of democracy	21,848	21,848
Geography	2,048	15,585
Islands	1,709	1,709
Mountains and rivers	1,413	1,413
Climate	6,771	6,771
Fauna and flora	3,644	3,644
Politics	1,859	53,034
Governance	19	29,517
The Crown	24,678	24,678
Cortes Generales	1,950	1,950
Government	2,870	2,870
Administrative divisions	121	8,355
Autonomous communities	6,844	6,844
Provinces and municipalities	1,390	1,390
Foreign relations	5,624	5,624
Military	3,601	3,601
Human rights	4,078	4,078
Economy	9,932	25,556
Tourism	2,005	2,005
Energy	6,233	6,233
Science and technology	2,327	2,327
Transport	5,059	5,059
Demographics	5,447	32,921
Urbanisation	95	95
Immigration	8,592	8,592
Languages	5,242	5,242
Education	5,158	5,158
Health	1,204	1,204
Religion	7,183	7,183
Culture	1,099	32,983
World Heritage Sites	1,327	1,327
Literature	7,695	7,695
Philosophy	1,924	1,924
Art	2,179	2,179
Sculpture	1,586	1,586
Cinema	3,227	3,227
Architecture	2,817	2,817
Music and dance	2,800	2,800
Cuisine	4,224	4,224
Sport	2,004	2,004
Public holidays and festivals	2,101	2,101
See also	239	239
Notes	1,406	1,406
References	30	1,076
Works cited	1,046	1,046
Further reading	380	380
External links	1,945	1,945
Total	256,056	256,056

Todo: Update information about electric cars

outdated sentence: "Spain aims to put one million electric cars on the road by 2014" 82.220.105.79 (talk) 21:21, 16 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Update information about Spain's largest cities

«Urbanisation» section.

The updated data for 2024 appears in the table source itself. Gyu Den (talk) 04:08, 20 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Add co-official languages in small upper right table

Spanish is mentioned in the beginning of the article as the official language in Spain. I am referring to the table appearing on the upper right of the article. It is explained in the notes that there are more co-official languages, but I would respectfully suggest to include them also in the upper right table together with Spanish. Many foreigners do not know this, and I think it is pedagogical to portray that information in the Language section of the initial table. Based on Article 3 of the Spanish constitution. https://mpt.gob.es/politica-territorial/autonomica/Lenguas-cooficiales.html

2A02:FE1:82:9400:D1D2:965A:7E85:99D6 (talk) 09:29, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Spain - Etymology

This article states that the Phoenician word for Spain was I-Shpania. The word for ship in two Semitic languages sisters to Phoenician are: 1. Hebrew: Sfinah (Jonah 1:5, Strong's 5600 [e]), and 2. Arabic: Safinah. The root for both words is SPN. According to the article about the Hyrax (Biblical Hebrew: Shafan) this animal is distributed in Africa and the Middle East, but not in Spain. On top of this, this animal has never had any particular economic or other value, and for the above reasons it is unlikely to assume that the Phoenicians named a region of high interest for them after it. The alleged mix-up between Hyrax and Rabbit further disqualifies this explanation. In contrast, the Phoenician civilization was built on ships and seafaring, and it is more likely to assume that the Phoenicians called Spain I-Shpania in the context of ships, shipping, ship building and seafaring. 2600:4040:5A7F:3800:BD19:1943:56E9:1F92 (talk) 00:52, 6 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. Wikipedia goes by what reliable sources say. It isn't up to editors to "disqualify" what those sources say by their own reasoning, we'd need other reliable sources that contents those claims.

I don't see how your association with "ship" holds up anyway. They had ships in Phoenicia, and they sailed ships to many places. There would have been nothing special about the Iberian Peninsula that would have led them to name it after the vehicle that they had all over their own country and that they used to travel everywhere around the Mediterranean. I'm not saying this to invite further debate here, which would be off-topic for this page (which isn't for developing alternative theories of our own) but to make a point: I don't know the answer, just as you don't, it's just my own reasoning. If reliable sources did support your ship hypothesis and it were to be included in the article on the strength of that support, it wouldn't be up to me to contest its inclusion based on my own skepticism. Largoplazo (talk) 13:04, 6 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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In the info box it says 50st. Could someone please change that to 50th? 2600:100C:B054:E867:7D30:544F:2F0B:7520 (talk) 20:01, 26 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I was about to make the edit but then it occurred to me to check whether you're sure it wasn't intended to be 51st. What's the source, and what does it say? Largoplazo (talk) 20:06, 26 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

According to List of countries and dependencies by area Spain is 50th, but there's no source. Tony Holkham (Talk) 20:33, 26 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'll change it to 50th, per List of countries and dependencies by area as the area is unlikely to change that much in comparison with the countries above and below on the list. Tony Holkham (Talk) 20:44, 26 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]