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The Spanish Wikipedia (In Spanish: Wikipedia en Español) is a Spanish-language edition of Wikipedia. Started in May 2001, it is the 9th-largest Wikipedia by article count. [1] The Spanish Wikipedia has about 1,946,000 articles. [2]
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The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic was first confirmed to have spread to Spain on 31 January 2020, when a German tourist tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 in La Gomera, Canary Islands. [3] By 13 March, cases had been confirmed in all 50 provinces of the country. A state of alarm and national lockdown was made on 14 March. [5]
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Gibraltar 1 km, not recognized by Spain. Coastline: 4,964 km. Population of Spain: 46,063,500 (January 2008) - 28th most populous country. Area of Spain: 504,030 km 2. Second largest country in Western Europe (behind France) Altitude: Average altitude: 650 m. Rank: second highest country in Europe (behind Switzerland)
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The Spanish language came from a dialect of spoken Latin. In 218 BC, it was brought to the Iberian Peninsula by the Romans. After evolving and improving for centuries, it is the world’s 4th most spoken language today with over 489 million native speakers, after English, Mandarin Chinese, and Hindi.
Spanish is used by many people in the world today, partly because Spain traveled and colonized many different parts of the world and created many new countries and governments. The countries with Spanish as an official language are called the Hispanic countries. Most of them are in the Americas, which make up Latin America. They include the followi...
The Spanish language was originally the language of Castile. When the Western Roman Empire collapsed, Latin changed in different ways in different provinces. The Latin spoken in the Iberian Peninsula developed into the Ibero-Romance language in the 6th century. Castilian and Portuguese became separate languages around the 12th century. In Spain, th...
Spanish is sometimes called Castellano because Castile is the regionin Spain that is the origin of the language. The Spanish word for Spanish is "español", and the Spanish word for Castilian is "castellano". In the other Romance languages spoken on the Iberian Peninsula, such as Galician, Catalan, Asturian, and others, Spanish is usually called "Ca...
In 2009, for the first time in history, Spanish was the most common "mother tongue" language of the western world, more than English. It was also the second most common language on Earth, after Chinese. As of 2016, the three most common languages in the world are: 1. Chinese: Spoken by about 1.305 billion people 2. Spanish: Spoken by about 427 mill...
The Project Gutenberg EBook of A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. Roessler and Alfred Remy.Spanish to English Archived 2017-08-08 at the Wayback Machineonline translation- Spaniards
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Aug 21, 2023 · Spain country profile. 21 August 2023. Spain's location at the crossroads of the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, Europe and Africa, has made it a key political and cultural bridge across five ...
Scope. This WikiProject aims to create and improve pages related to Spain and Spanish cities, provinces, geography, history, culture, and so on. The objectives of this WikiProject are as follows: Improve the quality of Spain-related articles (see the WikiProject talk page) Expand the number of Spain-related articles.
