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Percentage figures for arable land, permanent crops land and other lands are all taken from the CIA World Factbook [1] as well as total land area figures [2] (Note: the total area of a country is defined as the sum of total land area and total water area together.) All other figures, including total cultivated land area, are calculated on the ...
In years of poor or average harvests, the country was obliged to import grains for use as animal fodder, but on the whole Spain was a net exporter of foodstuffs. [2] Aceituneros of the province of Jaén in the 2000s. Spanish agriculture varied considerably with regard to regional differences in output. [2]
With a land area of 504,782 square kilometres (194,897 sq mi) in the Iberian peninsula, [1] Spain is the largest country in Southern Europe, the second largest country in Western Europe (behind France), and the fourth largest country in the European continent (behind Russia, Ukraine, and France). It has an average altitude of 650 m.
Dymaxion map of the world with the 30 largest countries and territories by area. This is a list of the world's countries and their dependencies, ranked by total area, including land and water. This list includes entries that are not limited to those in the ISO 3166-1 standard, which covers sovereign states and dependent territories.
This is a list of countries and dependencies ranked by population density, sorted by inhabitants per square kilometre or square mile. The list includes sovereign states and self-governing dependent territories based upon the ISO standard ISO 3166-1. The list also includes unrecognized but de facto independent countries. The figures in the table ...
Spain's exclusive economic zone (EEZ) (Spanish: Zona económica exclusiva de España) is the 30th largest in the world with 1,039,233 km 2 (401,250 sq mi). [1] It is mostly in the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. This is approximately double the entire Spanish land area. Together the land and sea surface would account for approximately ...
Wood (Spanish: madera) long was the main source of energy. [1] In the 20th century, efforts were taken to reverse the trend, increasing the forested area in the country from then on. [2] [n. 1] Forests cover roughly 55% of the land in Spain, with 70% privately owned and 27% on public land.
The Spanish armed forces are a professional force with a strength in 2017 of 121,900 active personnel and 4,770 reserve personnel. The country also has the 77,000 strong Civil Guard which comes under the control of the Ministry of defense in times of a national emergency. The Spanish defense budget is 5.71 billion euros (US$7.2 billion) a 1% ...