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| Capital | Valladolid | ||||
| Area - total - % of Spain |
Ranked 1st 94,223 km² 18,6% | ||||
| Population - Total (2003) - % of Spain - Density |
Ranked 6th 2,480,369 5.9% 26.32/km² | ||||
| Demonym - English - Spanish |
Castillian, Leonese castellano/a, leonés/leonesa | ||||
| Statute of Autonomy | March 2, 1983 | ||||
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| Parliamentary representation Congress seats Senate seatsThe Spanish Senate (Spanish: Senado is the upper house of the Cortes, Spain's legislative branch. It has 259 members: 208 are directly elected by popular vote and the other 51 are appointed by the regional legislatures. All senators serve four-year terms. | 33 3 | ||||
| President | Juan Vicente Herrera Campo ( PP) | ||||
| Junta de Castilla y León | |||||
Castile and Leon ( Spanish Castilla y León, Astur-Leonese, Castiella y Llión, and in GalicianGalician Galego is a language variety of the Western Ibero-Romance branch, spoken in Galicia (in the Galician language, Galicia or Galiza , an autonomous community in northwestern Spain. General Info Galician is spoken by more than 3 million people: it is language Castela e León) is an autonomous communitySpain's fifty provinces provincias are grouped into seventeen autonomous communities comunidades autonomas , in addition to two African autonomous cities ciudades autonomas ( Ceuta and Melilla). Formation and Powers Centralism, nationalism and separatism of SpainThe Kingdom of Spain is a country located in the southwest of Europe. It shares the Iberian Peninsula with Portugal, Gibraltar and Andorra. To the northeast, along the Pyrenees mountain range, it borders France and the tiny principality of Andorra. It inc, the country's largest. It is formed by the union of two ancient kingdoms: Kingdom of CastileA former kingdom of Spain, Castile comprises the two regions of Old Castile in north-western Spain, and New Castile in the centre of the country. Previously an eastern county of the kingdom of Leon, Castile in the 11th century became an independent realm and Kingdom of León, several times separated and reunited in the Middle Ages.
Castile and Leon is bordered to the north by Asturias and Cantabria, on the east by the Basque Country and La Rioja, to the southeast by the autonomous community of Madrid and Castile-La Mancha, to the south by Extremadura, and to the west by Portugal and Galicia.
Castile and Leon is composed of the provinces of Ávila, Burgos, León, Palencia, Salamanca, Segovia, Soria, Valladolid, and Zamora.
The capital of Castile and Leon is in Valladolid, and its other best-known cities are Burgos, Salamanca, León, and Segovia.
Spanish is the main language, but in León, Zamora and Salamanca , Astur-Leonese language or Llïonés is also spoken along with Galician. In Treviño ( Burgos (province)), an enclave of the Basque Country, also Basque is spoken.
The Astur-Leonese language is spoken in Leon (provinces of Leon, Zamora and territories under Portuguese administration of Miranda de Douro and Sendim ), and also in the Asturian Principality. Its geographical limits are the Galician-Portuguese in the West, and the Castilian ( Spanish) languages in the South and East.