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Encyclopedia > Barcelona (province)
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Barcelona is a province of eastern Spain, in the center of the autonomous community of Catalonia. It is bordered by the provinces of Tarragona, Lleida, and Girona, and by the Mediterranean Sea.


Its capital is Barcelona. 4,906,117 people live in the province (2002), of whom fewer than a third live in the municipality of Barcelona.


Some other cities and towns in Barcelona province include L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Badalona, Cerdanyola, Martorell, Mataró, Granollers, Sabadell, Terrassa, Sitges, Igualada, Vic, Manresa, Berga. See also List of municipalities in Barcelona.


The province contains the following comarques:

The province is famous for its architecture.






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Barcelona itself is a major international city, a cosmopolitan hotbed of culture and art that moves at a dynamic pace and arguably one of the finest cities in Europe.
At the west of the Barcelona province, inland, L’Anoia is a fertile region in the valley of the River Anoia.
In the north of the province, situated in a fairly narrow valley between the pre-Pyrenees and the Serralda mountain ranges, Osona is largely an agricultural region with one of the highest concentration of Catalan speakers in Catalonia.
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