Pais_Vasco Pais_Vasco

Pais Vasco - Definition


Euskal Autonomia Erkidegoa /
Comunidad Autónoma del País Vasco
image:ccaa-basque.png
CapitalVitoria-Gasteiz
Official languagesBasque and Spanish
Area


 - total


 - % of Spain
Ranked 14th


7 234 km²


1,4%
Population


 - Total (2003)
 - % of Spain


 - Density
Ranked 7th


2 108 281
5,0%


291,44/km²
Demonym


 - English
 - Basque


 - Spanish


Basque
euskal herritar, euskaldun
vasco/a, vascongado/a

Statute of Autonomy December 22, 1979
ISO 3166-2PV

Parliamentary
representation


 Congress seats
 Senate seats

 

19

3
PresidentJuan José Ibarretxe Markuartu (PNV)
Eusko Jaurlaritza/Gobierno Vasco (http://www.euskadi.net)

Basque Country (Basque Euskadi, Spanish País Vasco) is an autonomous community of Spain whose capital is Vitoria (Basque Gasteiz). It is part of the larger Basque native lands, which are also called the “Basque Country

The following Spanish provinces make up Basque Country:

Political Spain in 1854, after the first Carlist War

Before the Spanish Constitution of 1978 and its system of autonomous communities, these three provinces were known in Spanish as the Provincias Vascongadas, a term still used by some nostalgics of the Franco era and by independentists who despise the current autonomy and reserve "Basque Country" for the union of the seven territories.

External link

  • Images of Euskadi (http://www.travel-images.com/euskadi.html) - photos of the Basque Country



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