In the late 2000s, autonomous communities accounted for 35% of all public expenditure in Spain, a percentage that is even higher than that of states within a federation. With no legal constraints to balance budgets, and since the central government retains control over fiscal revenue in the communities of common regime, these are in a way encouraged to build up debt.

Spain is organisationally structured as a so-called Estado de las Autonomías ("State of Autonomies"); it is one of the most decentralised countries in Europe, along with Switzerland, Germany and Belgium; for example, all autonomous communities have their own elected parliaments, governments, public administrations, budgets, and resources.

Autonomous communities of Spain; Ranked list of Spanish autonomous communities; Notes. Annual average exchange rates: GDP (in US$), according to List of countries by GDP (UN). It is estimated that the average exchange rate is US$0.9213 per EUR€ in 2000 and US$1.2436 per EUR€ in 2005. US$1 is about equal to EUR€0.7543 in 2010. References

Toledo (UK: / t ɒ ˈ l eɪ d oʊ / tol-AY-doh, Spanish: ()) is a city and municipality of Spain, capital of the province of Toledo and the de jure seat of the government and parliament of the autonomous community of Castilla–La Mancha.Toledo was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1986 for its extensive monumental and cultural heritage. ...

The following table shows the difference in median income for each of the 17 autonomous communities of Spain. The data was provided by Adecco and the INE. The wealthiest Spaniards are from the Basque Country, with a median income of €27,174. The poorest Spaniards reside in Extremadura, where median income is €18,662. The data was for 2016.

The Basque Country (/ b æ s k, b ɑː s k /; Basque: Euskadi; Spanish: País Vasco [paˈiz ˈβasko]), also called Basque Autonomous Community (Basque: Euskal Autonomia Erkidegoa, EAE; Spanish: Comunidad Autónoma del País Vasco, CAPV), is an autonomous community of Spain.It includes the provinces (and historical territories) of Álava, Biscay, and Gipuzkoa, …

People have lived in Spain since the Stone Age.Later, the Roman Empire controlled Spain for about five hundred years; then as the Roman Empire broke up, groups of Germanic people including Visigoths moved in and took control.. Moorish occupation. In 711, the Umayyads took over, and later groups from North Africa, called the Moors.At first the Moors ruled most of …

The autonomous communities (comunidades autónomas in Spanish and Galician, comunitats autònomes in Catalan, autonomia erkidego in Basque) constitute the first order (highest) level of territorial organization of Spain.They were created progressively after the promulgation of the Spanish constitution in 1978, to the "nationalities and regions" that constitute the Spanish …

Spanje, officieel het Koninkrijk Spanje (Spaans: Reino de España), is een land in het zuidwesten van Europa met 50.015.792 (2020) inwoners en een oppervlakte van 505.992 km². Het land beslaat grofweg 80% van het Iberisch Schiereiland.Buiten dat horen ook de eilandengroep Balearen in de Middellandse Zee, de Canarische Eilanden in de Atlantische Oceaan en de …

All autonomous communities follow the provincial limits established in the 1833 territorial division of Spain: no province has been partitioned between communities. Moreover, many communities roughly coincide with the pre-provincial historical regions of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, which in turn reflected to some extent some of the historical medieval …