Blank Map of Spain

Spain’s 17 autonomous communities, Ceuta and Melilla on one sheet.

Blank Map of Spain

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Write the name of each numbered autonomous community.Answer key

  1. Andalusia
  2. Aragon
  3. Asturias
  4. Balearic Islands
  5. Basque Country
  6. Canary Islands
  7. Cantabria
  8. Castile and León
  9. Castilla-La Mancha
  10. Catalonia
  11. Community of Madrid
  12. Extremadura
  13. Galicia
  14. La Rioja
  15. Navarre
  16. Region of Murcia
  17. Valencian Community
  18. Ceuta
  19. Melilla

Drawn for this site from Natural Earth 5.1.2. Licence: public domain.

Each autonomous community is a button. Use the arrow keys to move between them and Enter to choose. Names are read out in Study, and once a autonomous community is answered.

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  1. Andalusia Capital: Seville. First of the 17 by population and second by area. It had 8,631,862 people on 1 January 2024. Mulhacén, in the Sierra Nevada, is the highest mountain on the Spanish mainland at 3,479 m.
  2. Aragon Capital: Zaragoza, on the Ebro. It is home to slightly more than half of the people of Aragon. Aneto, the highest mountain in the Pyrenees at 3,404 m, is in the province of Huesca.
  3. Asturias Capital: Oviedo. Gijón is the largest city. Officially the Principality of Asturias, it faces the Cantabrian Sea and shares the Picos de Europa with Cantabria and Castile and León.
  4. Balearic Islands Capital: Palma, on Mallorca. The main islands are Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza and Formentera. Catalan and Spanish are both official. Smallest of the 17 by area, at 4,992 square kilometers.
  5. Basque Country Capital: Vitoria-Gasteiz in practice, since no law names a capital. Bilbao is the largest city, and its Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Gehry, opened in 1997. Also officially called Euskadi.
  6. Canary Islands Capital: Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Santa Cruz de Tenerife. They have shared it since 1927. Seven main islands about 100 km off the coast of Africa. Teide, on Tenerife, is the highest point in Spain at 3,715 m.
  7. Cantabria Capital: Santander. The cave of Altamira is here. It is a World Heritage Site known for its prehistoric paintings. The Ebro, the longest river entirely within Spain, rises in Cantabria's mountains.
  8. Castile and León Capital: Valladolid in practice, since no law names one. First of the 17 by area, at 94,223 square kilometers. Formed in 1983 from nine provinces and drained by the Douro.
  9. Castilla-La Mancha Capital: Toledo. Formed in 1982 from five provinces. They are Albacete, Ciudad Real, Cuenca, Guadalajara and Toledo. Third of the 17 by area, and crossed by the Tagus, the Guadiana and the Júcar.
  10. Catalonia Capital: Barcelona, the second most populous city in Spain. Work on Gaudí's Sagrada Família began there in 1882. It borders France and Andorra, and the Ebro reaches the sea through a delta in its south.
  11. Community of Madrid Capital: Madrid, which is also the capital of Spain. Formed in 1983 as a single province. Third of the 17 by population, with 7,009,268 people on 1 January 2024, and the most densely populated.
  12. Extremadura Capital: Mérida, founded by the Romans in 25 BC as Augusta Emerita. Badajoz is the largest city. Its two provinces, Cáceres and Badajoz, are the two largest provinces in Spain.
  13. Galicia Capital: Santiago de Compostela. Saint James is said to be buried in its cathedral. Four provinces and more than 1,660 km of coast, on the Atlantic to the west and the Cantabrian Sea to the north.
  14. La Rioja Capital: Logroño. Last of the 17 by population. It had 324,184 people on 1 January 2024. A single province in the Ebro valley, known for its wine and named for the Río Oja.
  15. Navarre Capital: Pamplona, home of the festival of San Fermín. Held from 6 to 14 July, with its running of the bulls. Officially the Chartered Community of Navarre, it borders France.
  16. Region of Murcia Capital: Murcia, though the regional assembly sits in Cartagena. A single province on the Mediterranean. The Mar Menor, at 135 square kilometers, is the largest lagoon in Spain.
  17. Valencian Community Capital: Valencia, the third largest city in Spain. Its three provinces, Castellón, Valencia and Alicante, line the Mediterranean coast. Fourth of the 17 by population.
  18. Ceuta
  19. Melilla

How this list was compiled: Names, capitals, provinces, areas and populations were written for this site and checked on 2026-09-19 against https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_communities_of_Spain (its table gives areas in square kilometers and populations from the national statistics office, INE, for 1 January 2024) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2:ES (17 autonomous communities and 2 autonomous cities, with the Spanish, Catalan and Basque name forms used as accept variants). The INE web service at https://servicios.ine.es/wstempus/js/EN/DATOS_TABLA/2853?nult=1 loaded on 2026-09-19 but returned 2021 register figures, so the 2024 populations follow the Wikipedia table and were not matched to an INE table. The fact in each detail line was read the same day in that community's English Wikipedia article (Andalusia, Aragon, Asturias, Balearic_Islands, Basque_Country_(autonomous_community), Canary_Islands, Cantabria, Castile_and_León, Castilla–La_Mancha, Catalonia, Community_of_Madrid, Extremadura, Galicia_(Spain), La_Rioja, Navarre, Region_of_Murcia, Valencian_Community) and in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulhacén, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneto, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teide, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebro, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picos_de_Europa, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_of_Altamira, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guggenheim_Museum_Bilbao, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagrada_Família, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mérida,_Spain, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago_de_Compostela_Cathedral, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Fermín and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar_Menor. Hints describe the drawing itself: neighbors and coasts were computed from /img/diagrams/spain.svg, which follows Natural Earth. The drawing also carries Ceuta and Melilla, the two autonomous cities, as separate shapes; they are shown but not asked and are not among the 17. Licence: own work

The drawing: Drawn for this site from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_10m_admin_1_states_provinces (scale 1:10,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_10m_admin_1_states_provinces.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Surrounding land from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_10m_admin_0_countries (scale 1:10,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_10m_admin_0_countries.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection centred on 39.8°N 3°W. Canary Islands moved into an inset. Outlines simplified; small islands are left out. Licence: public domain (Natural Earth terms of use: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/)

How it works

This blank map of Spain shows its 17 autonomous communities, the Balearic and Canary Islands among them, and the two autonomous cities, Ceuta and Melilla. Print it blank, numbered or named, with the answer key on its own sheet.

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Blank, numbered or named

The page opens on the blank sheet. Choose Numbered to put a number on each of the 19 places, or Named to print the names, then press Print this map. Print the answer key lists the numbers on a sheet of its own.

An outline map of Spain by community

Castile and León is the largest community at 94,223 km², and Andalusia has the most people. Ceuta and Melilla, on the African coast, are too small to write in, so each has a ring in the margin.

  • The map moves the Canary Islands into a dashed box at the lower left; tell students the box is not where they really lie.

Questions and answers

How many autonomous communities does Spain have?

Seventeen, plus two autonomous cities, Ceuta and Melilla, on the north coast of Africa. The map draws all 19, each with its own number on the numbered sheet.

How many provinces are in Andalusia?

Eight, more than any other community; Castile and León has nine. The map prints the community borders, not the 50 provinces inside them.

Which community has the most people?

Andalusia, with 8,631,862 people on 1 January 2024. Its capital is Seville, in the south-west of the community.

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