SPAIN
(Kingdom of Spain)

Capital: Madrid

Flag: the national flag accepted in 1785 consists of three horizontal strips: yellow, equal in size of two others, between two red, with the coat of arms on a yellow strip.

Anthem: Marcha Real Granadera (March of the royal grenadier).

MONETARY GROUP: The peseta was replaced Euro as official currency as of 2002. Euro is divided into 100 cents. There are coins of 1, 2, 5, 10, 20 and 50 cents and 1 euro and 2 euros. There are notes from 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200 and 500 euros. €1 = $1.25475 (or $1 = €0.79697) as of 2005.

WEIGHT AND MEASURES: the metric system is the legal standard.

HOLIDAYS: New year, on January 1; Day of Saint Joseph, on March 19; Epiphany, on March 31; Day of Saint Iosif Remeslennik, on May 1; Day of Saint James, on July 25; Assumption, on August 15; National day and Latin American day, on October 12; All Saints' Day, on November 1; Immaculate conception, on December 8; Christmas, on December 25. Moveable religious feasts include the Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Monday and Corpus Christi.

TIME: 13:00 - 12:00.

ARRANGEMENT, SIZE AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Occupying the most part of the Iberian peninsula, Spain is the third largest country in Europe, of 504 782 sq.km (194 897 quarter. Miles). Rather, the space occupied by Spain a little more than exceeds the State of State of Oregon twice. This sum includes Islas Baleares in the western Mediterranean Sea and the Canary Islands (Islas Canarias) in the Atlantic Ocean to the west from Morocco; both island groups are considered as an integral part of capital Spain. The Spanish continent stretches for 1,085 km (674 miles) and for 950 km (590 miles) of nanosecond. The boundary Bay of Biscay, France and Andorra in the north, across the Mediterranean Sea, on Gibraltar and the Strait of Gibraltar, in the gulf Cadiz in the southeast and also to Portugal and Atlantic on w, Spain has the general overland border of 1918 km (1,192 miles) and the coastline of 4964 km (3 084 miles). Spain also has Ceuta, Melilla and another "places of sovereignty" in the north of Morocco.

Spain long approved Gibraltar, narrow peninsula on the southern coast which was taken by the British-Dutch fleet in 1704 and became the British colony under the Utrecht contract (1713). In 2003 residents of Gibraltar voted for remaining the British colony and demanded broader participation in negotiations between the United Kingdom and Spain of rather future Gibraltar. The United Kingdom plans to provide to Gibraltar big autonomy, but Spain doesn't agree with this plan.
The Spanish capital, Madrid, is located in the center of the country.