Canary Islands Islas Canarias | |
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Location o Canary Islands | |
Coordinates: 28°06′N 15°24′W / 28.100°N 15.400°W | |
Kintra | Spainie |
Caipital | Santa Cruz an Las Palmas[5] |
Govrenment | |
• Preses | Paulino Rivero (CC) |
Area (1.5% of Spain; Rankit 13t) | |
• Total | 7493 km2 (2,893 sq mi) |
Population (2011)[6] | |
• Total | 2,117,519 |
• Density | 280/km2 (730/sq mi) |
• Pop. rank | 8t |
• Ethnic groups | 85.7% Spaingie (Canarian an Peninsulares) 14.3% foreign naitionals mainly Germans Breetish |
Demonym | |
Anthem | Hymn of the Canaries |
Offeecial leid(s) | Spaingie |
Statute o Autonomy | 16 August 1982 |
Parliament | Cortes Generales |
Congress seats | 15 (o 350) |
Senate seats | 13 (o 264) |
Website | Gobierno de Canarias |
The Canary Islands (Spaingie: Islas Canarias, [ˈizlas kaˈnaɾjas], [ˈihlah kaˈnaɾjas]), kent as the Canaries (Spaingie: Canarias) an aw, is a Spainish airchipelago locatit juist aff the northwast coast o mainland Africae, 100 km wast o the border atween Morocco an the Wastren Sahara. The Canaries are a Spaingie autonomous commonty an an ootermaist region o the European Union. The islands include (frae lairgest tae smawest): Tenerife, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, La Palma, La Gomera, El Hierro, La Graciosa, Alegranza, Isla de Lobos, Montaña Clara, Roque del Este an Roque del Oeste. The Canary Islands are legally recognizit as a naitionality o Spain. Geographically it is a pairt o the African Continent.