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Encyclopedia > Comarcas of Asturias

Asturias, a province and an autonomous community in Spain, is divided into eight comarcas. Comarca is a Spanish-language word roughly equivalent to the English-language county; the word in the Asturian language (protected but not co-official with Spanish in Asturias) is cotarru, plural cotarros.


The comarcas of Asturias are listed here, each with its Spanish-language name first, followed by its Asturian-language name if that differs:


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