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A Coruña
Municipality in Galicia, Spain / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A Coruña (Galician: [ɐ koˈɾuɲɐ] ⓘ; Spanish: La Coruña [la koˈɾuɲa] ⓘ;[lower-alpha 1] also informally called just Coruña; historical English: Corunna or The Groyne) is a city and municipality in Galicia, Spain. It is Galicia's second largest city, behind Vigo.[5] The city is the provincial capital of the province of A Coruña, having also served as political capital of the Kingdom of Galicia[6][7] from the 16th to the 19th centuries, and as a regional administrative centre between 1833 and 1982.
A Coruña
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A Coruña | |
Nickname: A Cidade de Cristal (The Glass City) | |
Motto(s): A Coruña, a cidade onde ninguén é forasteiro (A Coruña, the city where nobody is an outsider) | |
![]() Location of A Coruña | |
Coordinates: 43.365°N 8.410°W / 43.365; -8.410 | |
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Autonomous community | ![]() |
Province | A Coruña |
Comarca | A Coruña |
Parishes | A Coruña, Elviña, Oza, San Cristovo das Viñas, Visma |
Government | |
• Type | Ayuntamiento |
• Body | Concello da Coruña |
• Mayor | Inés Rey [es] (PSdeG-PSOE) |
Area | |
• Municipality | 37.83 km2 (14.61 sq mi) |
Population (2020)[1] | |
• Municipality | 247,604 |
• Density | 6,613/km2 (17,130/sq mi) |
• Metro | 431,332 |
Demonyms | corunnan (en) coruñés, coruñesa (gl / es) |
GDP | |
• Metro | €25.231 billion (2020) |
Time zone | CET (GMT +1) |
• Summer (DST) | CEST (GMT +2) |
Postcode | 15001-15011 |
Area codes | +34 981 and +34 881 |
Website | www |
A Coruña is located on a promontory in the Golfo Ártabro, a large gulf on the Atlantic Ocean. It is the main industrial and financial centre of northern Galicia, and holds the headquarters of the Universidade da Coruña. A Coruña is the Spanish city featuring the tallest mean-height of buildings,[8] also featuring a population density of 21,972 inhabitants per square kilometre (56,910/sq mi) of built land area.[9]