Andalusia
Province Capital Population Density Municipalities Legal districts
Almería Almería 702,819 72.5/km ( 188/sq mi ) 102 municipalities 8
Cádiz Cádiz 1,243,519 158.8/km ( 411/sq mi ) 44 municipalities 14
Córdoba Córdoba 805,857 72.4/km ( 188/sq mi ) 75 municipalities 12
Granada Granada 924,550 68.7/km ( 178/sq mi ) 170 municipalities 9
Huelva Huelva 521,968 47.7/km ( 124/sq mi ) 79 municipalities 6
Jaén Jaén 670,600 49.1/km ( 127/sq mi ) 97 municipalities 10
Málaga Málaga 1,625,827 204.1/km ( 529/sq mi ) 102 municipalities 11
Seville Seville 1,928,962 129.2/km ( 335/sq mi ) 105 municipalities 15
Administrative divisions -- Provinces
Upper Andalusia or Eastern Andalusia . Lower Andalusia or Western Andalusia . Andalusia consists of eight provinces . The latter were established by Javier de Burgos in the 1833 territorial division of Spain . Each of the Andalusian provinces bears the same name as its capital : [ 95 ]
Andalusia region (UK: /ˌændəˈluːsiə, -ziə/, US: /-ʒ(i)ə, -ʃ(i)ə/; Spanish: Andalucía [andaluˈθi.a]) is the southern autonomous community in Peninsular Spain. It is the most populous, and the second largest autonomous community in the country. The Andalusian autonomous community is officially recognised as a historical nationality. The territory is divided into eight provinces: Almería, Cádiz, Córdoba, Granada, Huelva, Jaén, Málaga and Seville. Its capital is the city of Seville. Andalusia is located in the south of the Iberian peninsula, in southwestern Europe, immediately south of the autonomous communities of Extremadura and Castilla-La Mancha; west of the autonomous community of Murcia and the Mediterranean Sea; east of Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean; and north of the Mediterranean Sea and the Strait of Gibraltar. Andalusia is the only European region with both Mediterranean and Atlantic coastlines. The small British overseas territory of Gibraltar shares a three-quarter-mile land border with the Andalusian province of Cádiz at the eastern end of the Strait of Gibraltar. The main mountain ranges of Andalusia are the Sierra Morena and the Baetic System, consisting of the Subbaetic and Penibaetic Mountains, separated by the Intrabaetic Basin. In the north, the Sierra Morena separates Andalusia from the plains of Extremadura and Castile-La Mancha on Spain's Meseta Central. To the south the geographic subregion of Upper Andalusia lies mostly within the Baetic System, while Lower Andalusia is in the Baetic Depression of the valley of the Guadalquivir. The name Andalusia is derived from the Arabic word Al-Andalus (الأندلس).