Tap or click the community it names, fifteen on the mainland and two at sea.
Spain Geography Quiz
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Write the name of each numbered autonomous community.Answer key
Andalusia
Aragon
Asturias
Balearic Islands
Basque Country
Canary Islands
Cantabria
Castile and León
Castilla-La Mancha
Catalonia
Community of Madrid
Extremadura
Galicia
La Rioja
Navarre
Region of Murcia
Valencian Community
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.
AndalusiaCapital: 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.
AragonCapital: 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.
AsturiasCapital: 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.
Balearic IslandsCapital: 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.
Basque CountryCapital: 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.
Canary IslandsCapital: 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.
CantabriaCapital: 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.
Castile and LeónCapital: 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.
Castilla-La ManchaCapital: 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.
CataloniaCapital: 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.
Community of MadridCapital: 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.
ExtremaduraCapital: 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.
GaliciaCapital: 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.
La RiojaCapital: 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.
NavarreCapital: 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.
Region of MurciaCapital: 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.
Valencian CommunityCapital: Valencia, the third largest city in Spain. Its three provinces, Castellón, Valencia and Alicante, line the Mediterranean coast. Fourth of the 17 by population.
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 Spain geography quiz draws the 17 autonomous communities on a blank map. Fifteen of them are on the mainland, the Balearic Islands lie off the east coast and the Canary Islands sit in a dashed box at the lower left.
Read the full guide
The box, the islands and two shapes the quiz skips
The Canary Islands lie in the Atlantic about 100 km off Africa, so the drawing moves them into the box. Ceuta and Melilla, the two autonomous cities, are drawn but never asked, and a tap on either is not a miss. A wrong tap elsewhere shows the right community; the end card reruns them. Some borders on this map are disputed. Disputed areas are shown but not asked.
English names, Spanish names and a few more
Labels on this Spain map quiz are English. Under Name it, typed answers take the local forms on the ISO list, such as Andalucía, Catalunya, Euskadi, Illes Balears and Navarra, with or without accents. Valladolid and Vitoria-Gasteiz are capitals in practice only, and the Canary Islands split the job between two cities.
Walk the north coast from west to east: Galicia, Asturias, Cantabria, Basque Country. The last one ends at France.
Two names begin with Cast. Castile and León is the largest shape, in the northwest. Castilla-La Mancha lies below it and wraps around Madrid.
Seven communities have no coast: Aragon, Castile and León, Castilla-La Mancha, Madrid, Extremadura, La Rioja and Navarre. La Rioja is the smallest mainland shape.
Questions and answers
How many autonomous communities does Spain have?
Seventeen. Spain also has two autonomous cities, Ceuta and Melilla, and 50 provinces grouped inside the communities. Castile and León holds the most, nine. Seven communities are a single province: Asturias, the Balearic Islands, Cantabria, La Rioja, Madrid, Murcia and Navarre.
Which autonomous community is the largest?
By area, Castile and León, at 94,223 square kilometers, then Andalusia. By people, Andalusia, with 8,631,862 on January 1, 2024, then Catalonia and Madrid. The Balearic Islands are the smallest, at 4,992 square kilometers, and La Rioja has the fewest people, 324,184.
Does typing Madrid, Murcia or Valencia count?
Yes. The short form counts for each: Madrid for the Community of Madrid, Murcia for the Region of Murcia and Valencia for the Valencian Community. This page never asks for capitals, so the short name cannot be read two ways.