Valls Oriental - Municipalities

Vallès Oriental is a comarca (county) in Catalonia, Spain, European Union. Its capital is Granollers. Along with Vallès Occidental it forms the grand comarca of Vallès. Vallès Oriental - Municipalities. Aiguafreda - pop. 2,308 Ametlla del Vallès, L' - pop. 7,319 Bigues i Riells - pop. 7,155 Caldes de Montbui - pop. 15,536 Campins - pop. 354 Canovelles - pop. 14,668 Cànoves i Samalús - pop. 2,375 Cardedeu - pop. 15,018 Caste ...

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• Vallès Oriental - Municipalities
• Vallès Oriental - Vegetation

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Vallès Occidental is a comarca (county) in Catalonia. It is unique among the comarcas in that the two cities Sabadell and Terrassa (which are of roughly equal size) share the role of comarcal capital. Along with Vallès Oriental it forms the grand comarca of Vallès. Vallès Occidental - Physical geography. Vallès Occidental borders the comarques of Bages (to the north), Vallès Oriental (to the north and east), Baix Llobregat (to the west), andBarcelonès (to the south). It centers on the Catalan prelitt ...

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• Vallès Occidental - Physical geography
• Vallès Occidental - Major natural parks
• Vallès Occidental - Hiking trails
• Vallès Occidental - Human and economic geography
• Vallès Occidental - Municipalities
• Vallès Occidental - Transportation

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The comarca (county) of Bages lies in the center of Catalonia. It includes two subcomarques, el Moianès and el Lluçanès. Industries include the mining of potash at Súria and Sallent, and the manufacture of textiles along the rivers Llobregat and Cardener. Agriculture includes vineyards, cereals, and olive groves. To the north are Berguedà and (running clockwise) Osona, Vallès Oriental and Vallès Occidental. To the south a ...

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• Bages - Municipalities

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Barcelona is a province of eastern Spain, in the center of the autonomous community of Catalonia. It is bordered by the provinces of Tarragona, Lleida, and Girona, and by the Mediterranean Sea. Its capital is Barcelona. 4,906,117 people live in the province (2002), of whom fewer than a third live in the municipality of Barcelona. Some other cities and towns in Barcelona province include L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Badalona, Cerdanyola, Martorell, Mataró, Granollers, Sabadell, Terrassa, Sitges, Igualada, Vic, Manresa, ...

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Barcelonès is the most populous and economically important comarca (county) of Catalonia. Its capital is Barcelona, which is also the capital of Catalonia. Barcelonès - Municipalities. Population figures are for 2001. Badalona - pop. 214,440 Barcelona - pop. 1,582,738 L'Hospitalet de Llobregat - pop. 246,415 Sant Adrià de Besós - pop. 32,845 Santa Coloma de Gramenet - pop. 116,012 Barcelonès - External link. Including:

• Barcelonès - Municipalities
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Baix Empordà is a comarca (county) in Catalonia, one of the two into which Empordà was divided in the comarcal division of 1936. It is popularly known as "l'Empordanet". Baix Empordà - Municipalities. Albons - pop. 607 Begur - pop. 3748 Bellcaire d'Empordà - pop. 619 Bisbal d'Empordà - pop. 8651 Calonge - pop. 8282 Castell-Platja d'Aro - pop. 7905 Colomers - pop. 206 Corçà - pop. 1174 Cruïlles, Monells i Sant Sadur ...

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• Baix Empordà - Municipalities
• Baix Empordà - Comarcal Webs

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Alt Penedès is a comarca (county) in Catalonia, Spain. Alt Penedès - Municipalities. Avinyonet del Penedès - pop. 1334 Les Cabanyes - pop. 603 Castellet i la Gornal - pop. 1562 Castellví de la Marca - pop. 1497 Font-rubí - pop. 1297 Gelida - pop. 4929 La Granada - pop. 1479 Mediona - pop. 1638 Olèrdola - pop. 1173 Olesa de Bonesvalls - pop. 2578 Pacs del Penedès - pop. 701 Pla del Penedès ...

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• Alt Penedès - Municipalities
• Alt Penedès - External link

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Modern-day Urgell is a comarca (county) in Catalonia, forming only a portion of the region historically known as Urgell. Urgell comarca - Municipalities. Populations are for 2001. Agramunt - pop. 4,759 Anglesola - pop. 1,219 Belianes - pop. 586 Bellpuig - pop. 4,088 Castellserà - pop. 1,103 Ciutadilla - pop. 220 Fuliola - pop. 1,230 Guimerà - pop. 365 Maldà - pop. 271 Nalec - pop. 101 Omells de ...

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• Urgell comarca - Municipalities
• Urgell comarca - External link

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Val d'Aran, a small valley (620.47 km2) is a comarca (county) in the northwestern part of Catalonia, which is an autonomous region of Spain. It is the source of the Garonne, and one of the highest valleys of the Pyrenees. Most of the valley constitutes the only Catalan territory on the north face of the Pyrenees, hence the only part of Catalonia whose waters drain into the Atlantic Ocean. The region is characterized by an Atlantic climate, due to its peculiar orientation, w ...

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• Val d'Aran - The local language and the name Val d'Aran
• Val d'Aran - Government and economy
• Val d'Aran - Municipalities
• Val d'Aran - Fauna

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Catalan (Català) or Valencian (Valencià) is a Romance language, the national language of Andorra and co-official in several regions of Spain. Spain has the majority of active Catalan speakers, and Catalan is the country's second most widely spoken language. It is spoken or understood by as many as 12 million people who live not only in Andorra and Spain, but also in parts of France and Italy. Catalan language - Classification. Catalan is a Romance language. According to the Ethnologue ...

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• Catalan language - The status of Valencian
• Catalan language - Sounds and writing system
• Catalan language - Grammar
• Catalan language - History
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Vallès Occidental borders the comarques of Bages (to the north), Vallès Oriental (to the north and east), Baix Llobregat (to the west), andBarcelonès (to the south). It centers on the Catalan prelittoral depression, limited to the west by the River Llobregat and to the east by the River Caldes. The northern part of the comarca is mountainous. From west to east, it contains part of the Obac range (924m altitude at Castellsapera); the massifs of Sant Llorenç de Munt (1095m at La Mola and 1053m at Montcau) and Puig de la Creu (664m); and th ...

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Vallès Occidental, Vallès Occidental - Physical geography, Vallès Occidental - Major natural parks, Vallès Occidental - Hiking trails, Vallès Occidental - Human and economic geography, Vallès Occidental - Municipalities, Vallès Occidental - Transportation

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In 1861, Manuel Milà i Fontanals proposed a dialectal division of Catalan in two major blocks: Eastern Catalan and Western Catalan. There is no precise linguistic border between one dialect and another because there is nearly always a dialect transition zone of some size between pairs of geographically identified dialects, (except for dialects specific to an island). The main difference between both blocks is: Western Catalan (Bloc o Branca del Català Occidental): Unstressed vowels: See also:

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