Spain (i [espaɲa]), 12 also known as the Kingdom of Spain, note 2 is a sovereign country, member of the European Union, constituted as a social and democratic State of law and whose form of government is the parliamentary monarchy. Its territory is organized into seventeen autonomous communities and two autonomous cities, in addition to fifty provinces.12 Its capital is the town of Madrid.

It is a transcontinental country that is located both in Western Europe and in North Africa. In Europe it occupies most of the Iberian peninsula, known as Spain peninsular, and the archipelago of the Balearic Islands (in the western Mediterranean Sea); in Africa there are the cities of Ceuta (in the Tingitana peninsula) and Melilla (in the cape of Tres Forcas), the Canary Islands (in the North-East Atlantic Ocean), the Chafarinas Islands (Mediterranean Sea), the Vélez Peñón de la Gomera (Mediterranean Sea), the Alhucemas Islands (Gulf of the Alhucemas Islands), and the Alboran Island (Alboran Sea). The municipality of Llivia, in the Pyrenees, is an enclave entirely surrounded by French territory. Complete the set of territories a series of islands and islets in front of the own peninsular coasts.