Barcelona

Barcelona
City and municipality
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Nicknames:  Ciutat Comtal  (Catalan) Ciudad Condal  (Spanish) "Comital City" or "City of Counts" Cap i Casal de Catalunya  (Catalan) 'Head and Hearth of Catalonia' Abbreviation(s): Barna, BCN
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Coordinates: 41°23′N 2°11′E / 41.383°N 2.183°E / 41.383; 2.183
Country	Spain
Autonomous community	Catalonia
Province	Barcelona
Comarca	Barcelonès
Districts	10 Ciutat Vella Eixample Gràcia Horta-Guinardó Les Corts Nou Barris Sant Andreu Sants–Montjuïc Sarrià-Sant Gervasi Sant Martí
Government
• Type	Ayuntamiento
• Body	Ajuntament de Barcelona
• Mayor	Jaume Collboni (Socialists' Party of Catalonia)
Area [1]
• City	101.4 km2 (39.2 sq mi)
Elevation  (AMSL)	12 m (39 ft)
Population  (2018)[3]
• City	1,620,343
• Rank	2nd
• Density	16,000/km2 (41,000/sq mi)
• Urban	4,840,000[2]
• Metro	5,474,482
Demonyms	Barcelonan, Barcelonian barceloní, -ina  (Catalan) barcelonés, -esa  (Spanish)
Postal code	080xx
Area code	+34 (E) 93 (B)
INE code	08 0193
City budget (2014)	€2.6 billion[4]
Official language	Catalan and Spanish
Main festivity	La Mercè
Patron saint	Eulalia of Barcelona
Website	www.barcelona.cat

Barcelona is the capital city of Catalonia, which is a region of Spain. Barcelona is the largest city on the Mediterranean coast. The city is between the rivers of Llobregat and Besòs, and south of the Pyrenees mountains. It has a humid subtropical climate (Cfa in the Köppen climate classification). Most rain falls in autumn and spring, and the least rain falls in winter and summer. The average rainfall is relatively low, due to the rain shadow from the mountains.

In 1992, Barcelona hosted the Summer Olympic Games. Many new parks were opened and other significant changes to the city were made. One example is opening the new beaches in the Poble Nou area.

In 2007, about 1.6 million people lived in Barcelona. Around 3.1 million people live in the Metropolitan Area and 4.9 million people live in the Urban Region. Barcelona is the second most populated city in Spain, and the tenth in the European Union.

Barcelona is home to football team F.C. Barcelona.

1. ↑ "El municipi en xifres: Barcelona". Statistical Institute of Catalonia. Archived from the original on 24 November 2015. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
2. ↑ Demographia: World Urban Areas Archived 3 May 2018 at the Wayback Machine – Demographia, April 2018
3. ↑ Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.
4. ↑ Trias aprueba definitivamente el presupuesto de Barcelona para 2014 Archived 14 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine, La Vanguardia.