NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Vizcaya

(For the Vizcaya mansion in Florida, see Villa Vizcaya) State nickname: Sunshine State Official languages English Capital Tallahassee Largest city Jacksonville Governor Jeb Bush (R) Senators Bill Nelson (D) Mel Martinez (R) Area - Total - % water Ranked 22nd 170,451 kmÂ² 17. ... Villa Vizcaya is an Italian Renaissance-style estate in Miami, Florida, United States. ...

Vizcaya (Basque Bizkaia) is a province of northern Spain, in the northwestern part of the autonomous community of the Basque Country. Province locator map of Vizcaya (created by Montrealais) File links The following pages link to this file: Vizcaya Categories: GFDL images ... Basque (native name: Euskara) is the language spoken by the Basque people who inhabit the Pyrenees in North-Central Spain and the adjoining region of South-Western France. ... In addition to its seventeen autonomous communities, Spain is divided into fifty provinces. ... Autonomous communities of Spain. ... Capital Gasteiz Official languages Spanish and Basque Area â€“ Total â€“ % of Spain Ranked 14th 7 234 kmÂ² 1,4% Population â€“ Total (2003) â€“ % of Spain â€“ Density Ranked 7th 2 108 281 5,0% 291,44/kmÂ² Demonym â€“ English â€“ Spanish â€“ Basque Basque vasco/a euskal herritar, euskaldun GDP GDP/CÃ¡pita 30. ...

It is bordered by the provinces of Cantabria, Burgos, Guipúzcoa, and Álava, and by the Bay of Biscay. Capital Santander Area â€“ Total â€“ % of Spain Ranked 15th 5 321 kmÂ² 1. ... Burgos province Burgos Coat of Arms Burgos is a province of northern Spain, in the northeastern part of the autonomous community of Castile and LeÃ³n. ... GuipÃºzcoa province GuipÃºzcoa (Basque Gipuzkoa, in English sometimes as Guipuscoa) is a province of northern Spain, in the northeastern part of the autonomous community of the Basque Country. ... Ãlava province Ãlava (Basque: Araba) is a province of northern Spain, in the southern part of the autonomous community of the Basque Country. ... Map of the Bay of Biscay. ...

Of the 1,133,444 people (2002) who live in Vizcaya, about 30% live in the capital, Bilbao (Basque Bilbo). Guernica (Basque, Gernika-Lumo), a town regarded as the spiritual centre of the traditional Basque Country, is located in Vizcaya. Location of Bilbao in Spain Cityscape of Bilbao, with the Guggenheim Museum on the bottom right Bilbao from satellite (NASA World Wind Landsat) Bilbao (Basque: Bilbo) in the North of Spain, is the largest city in the Pais Vasco and the capital of the province of Vizcaya (Basque: Bizkaia). ... Guernica or Guernica y Lumo (Basque Gernika-Lumo, pronounced in IPA [gernika]) is a small city in the Spanish Basque Country that was the meeting place of the Biscayne assembly under an oak tree, the Gernikako Arbola, which was a symbol of traditional freedoms of the Basque people. ... The Basque Country (Euskal Herria in Basque) straddles the western Pyrenees mountains that define the border between France and Spain, extending down to the coast of the Bay of Biscay. ...

Other important towns include Barakaldo, Portugalete, Durango, and Balmaseda. Baracaldo (also spelled Barakaldo), is an industrial river-port municipality of northeastern Spain. ... Puente Colgante Portugalete is a port city lying to the west of Bilbao (Basque: Bilbo) in the province of Vizcaya in Spain. ... An historic industrial town. ... Balmaseda (Basque language; the formerly-used Spanish name was Valmaseda) is a town in the Encartaciones/Enkarterriak region of Bizkaia, Basque Autonomous Community, Spain. ...

See List of municipalities in Vizcaya. This is a list of the municipalities in the province of Biscay (Spanish Vizcaya, Basque Bizkaia) in the autonomous community of Basque Country, Spain. ...

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Capital LogroÃ±o Area â€“ Total â€“ % of Spain Ranked 16th 5 045 kmÂ² 1,0% Population â€“ Total (2003) â€“ % of Spain â€“ Density Ranked 17th 281 614 0,7% 55,82/kmÂ² Demonym â€“ English â€“ Spanish â€” riojano/a Statute of Autonomy June 9, 1982 Parliament â€“ Congress seats â€“ Senate seats 4 1 President Pedro Sanz... Categories: Spain geography stubs | Canary Islands | Provinces of Spain ... LeÃ³n province LeÃ³n is a province of northwestern Spain, in the northwestern part of the autonomous community of Castile and LeÃ³n. ... Lleida province Lleida is a province of eastern Spain, in the western part of the autonomous community of Catalonia. ... Categories: Spain geography stubs | Galicia (Spain) | Provinces of Spain ... 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Categories: Spain geography stubs | Basque | Provinces of Spain | Bizkaia The Basque Country (Euskal Herria in Basque) straddles the western Pyrenees mountains that define the border between France and Spain, extending down to the coast of the Bay of Biscay. ... The Basque Country (Euskal Herria in Basque) straddles the western Pyrenees mountains that define the border between France and Spain, extending down to the coast of the Bay of Biscay. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_Basque_Country. ... GuipÃºzcoa province GuipÃºzcoa (Basque Gipuzkoa, in English sometimes as Guipuscoa) is a province of northern Spain, in the northeastern part of the autonomous community of the Basque Country. ... Ãlava province Ãlava (Basque: Araba) is a province of northern Spain, in the southern part of the autonomous community of the Basque Country. ... Navarra is the Spanish name for Navarre (Basque: Nafarroa), an ancient kingdom in the Pyrenees, and now a province and an autonomous community in Spain. ... Labourd (Lapurdi in Basque; from Latin Lapurdum) is a former French province and part of the present-day Pyrénées Atlantiques département. ... Basse-Navarre (Nafarroa Beherea in Basque) is a former French province, part of the present day PyrÃ©nÃ©es Atlantiques dÃ©partement. ... MaulÃ©on, capital of Soule Soule (Zuberoa, Xiberu or XÃ¼beroa in Basque) is a former French province and part of the present day PyrÃ©nÃ©es Atlantiques dÃ©partment. ...