The world around us
What are provinces?
Each autonomous community is made up of one
province
or more.
Seven of the 17 autonomous communities have only one province
and are sometimes referred to as
uniprovincial
communities
.
Cantabria, for example, is an autonomous community
with just one province. Andalucía has eight.
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Answer these questions in your notebook:
a)
Which autonomous communities do these provinces belong to?
Cádiz
Burgos
Tarragona
Ciudad Real
Badajoz
b)
Which autonomous communities have only one province?
G
E T T I N G S T A R T E D
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Spain has
50
provinces.
They were created in 1833.
They define the
electoral
districts
and are important
for assigning
postcodes
and
telephone prefixes
.
Provinces are subdivided
into municipalities.
Most, but not all,
provinces are named after
their main town or city.
