Spain

Spain

Spain ranks 8th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Japan, Italy, and Russia. Memorable people born in present day Spain include Diego Velázquez, Antoni Gaudí, and Seneca the Younger. Memorable people who died in Spain include Christopher Columbus, Salvador Dalí, and Miguel de Cervantes. Spain has been the birth place of many soccer players, and politicians and the death place of many politicians, and writers.

Spain, officially the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southern and Western Europe with territories in North Africa. Featuring the southernmost point of continental Europe, it is the largest country in Southern Europe and the fourth-most populous European Union (EU) member state. Spanning the majority of the Iberian Peninsula, its territory also includes the Canary Islands, in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean, the Balearic Islands, in the Western Mediterranean Sea, and the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla, in mainland Africa. Peninsular Spain is bordered to the north by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay; to the east and south by the Mediterranean Sea and Gibraltar; and to the west by Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean. Spain's capital and largest city is Madrid; other major urban areas include Barcelona, Valencia, Seville, Zaragoza, Málaga, Murcia, and Palma de Mallorca. Read more on Wikipedia