comarques of catalonia

This is a list of the comarques (singular "comarca") of Catalonia. A comarca is roughly equivalent to a US "county" or a UK "shire" or "county". However, in the context of Catalonia, the term "county" can be a bit misleading, because in medieval Catalonia, the most important rulers were counts, notably the Counts of Barcelona and of Urgell. Comarques have no particular relation to the "counties" that were ruled by counts. The current division of Catalonia into comarques originates in an order of the semi-autonomous Catalan government under the Spanish Republic in 1936. It was superseded after the 1939 victory of Francisco Franco's forces in the Spanish Civil War, but restored in 1987 by the re-established Generalitat de Catalunya, with minor revisions in 1988 (adding Pla de l'Estany, Pla d'Urgell and Alta Ribagora) and 1990, when some borders were adjusted. See also lists of municipalities for the Catalan provinces of Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, Tarragona. Because the Catalan language has a relatively complex set of rules for the form of the definite article, and because (in Catalan) the names of comarques (except for Osona) typically take the definite article in any position except as the subject of a sentence, the following list indicates the appropriate form of the definite article for each comarca. Because Val d'Aran is an Aranese-speaking area, it is often written as "era Val d'Aran", using the Aranese definite article. As of 2004 there is discussion of possibly further subdividing some of the comarques. http://www.racocatala.com/articles/4867 Comarca>

Capital	Population	Area (km²)
l'Alt Camp	Valls	35,635	544.7
l'Alt Empord	Figueres	99,321	74
l'Alt Peneds	Vilafranca del Peneds	80,976	592.4
l'Alt Urgell	La Seu d'Urgell	19,105	1,446.9
l'Alta Ribagora	Pont de Suert	3,477	426,8
l'Anoia	Igualada	93,529	866.6
el Bages	Manresa	155,112	1,295.2
el Baix Camp	Reus	145,675	695.3
el Baix Ebre	Tortosa	66,369	987.9
el Baix Empord	La Bisbal d'Empord	102,566	700.5
el Baix Llobregat	Sant Feliu de Llobregat	692,892	486.5
el Baix Peneds	El Vendrell	61,256	295.5
la Baixa Cerdanya	Puigcerd	14,158	546.4
el Barcelons	Barcelona	2,093,670	143.1
el Bergued	Berga	37,995	1,182.5
la Conca de Barber	Montblanc	18,766	648.9
el Garraf	Vilanova i la Geltr	108,194	184.1
les Garrigues	Les Borges Blanques	18,999	799.7
la Garrotxa	Olot	47,747	734.2
el Girons	Girona	136,543	575.5
el Maresme	Matar	356,545	396.9
el Montsi	Amposta	57,550	708.7
la Noguera	Balaguer	34,744	1,733.0
Osona	Vic	129,543	1,263.8
el Pallars Juss	Tremp	12,057	1,290.0
el Pallars Sobir	Sort	6,174	1,355.2
el Pla de l'Estany	Banyoles	24.347	262.7
el Pla d'Urgell	Mollerussa	29,723	304.5
el Priorat	Falset	9,196	496.2
la Ribera d'Ebre	Mora d'Ebre	21,656	825.3
el Ripolls	Ripoll	25,744	958.7
la Segarra	Cervera	18,497	721.2
el Segri	Lleida	166,090	1,393.7
la Selva	Santa Coloma de Farners	117,393	995.5
el Solsons	Solsona	11,466	998.6
el Tarragons	Tarragona	181,374	317.1
la Terra Alta	Gandesa	12,196	740.0
l'Urgell	Trrega	31,026	586.2
era Val d'Aran	Vielha	7,691	620.5
el Valls Occidental	Sabadell, Terrassa	736,682	580.7
el Valls Oriental	Granollers	321,431	851.9

Other historical comarques: Comarca>

Capital	Current status
el Rossell (Roussillon)	Perpiny (Perpignan)	Part of France
l'Alta Cerdanya	Fontromeu	Part of France
el Capcir	Angles (Les Angles)	Part of France
el Vallespir	Ceret	Part of France
el Conflent	Prada de Conflent (Prades)	Part of France
la Baixa Ribagora	Benavarri (Benabarre)	Part of Aragon
la Llitera	Tamarit de Llitera (Tamarite de Litera)	Part of Aragon
el Baix Cinca	Fraga	Part of Aragon
la Matarranya	Vall-de-roures (Valderrobres)	Part of Aragon

External link

The Institut d'Estadstica de Catalunya is an excellent source of statistical information for Catalonia, down to the level of individual municipalities. It is also our source for which municipalities are in which comarca. Parts of the site are in English and Spanish, although most of it is in Catalan.
Comarclia - Information about the various comarques in a variety of languages, including English. Includes good maps down to the level of individual municipalities (or, as they choose to translate, "boroughs").

<< Previous

Word Browser

Next >>

one china policy
new jersey devils
taiwan province
maria mutola
bay of fundy
yha
agm
rector
shrines to the virgin mary
regional planning
dean

fainting
oberon (moon)
psychedelic furs
interchange file format
aiff
hanging gardens of babylon
squeeze
alfonso x of castile
tetrahymena
jean bertrand aristide
alfonso v of castile

maurice greene (athlete)
kokichi mikimoto
seasonal affective disorder
ages of middle earth
root mean square
yelena berezhnaya
amposta
tortosa
flix
islas chafarinas
pen de vlez de la gomera

fixing broken windows
enclave
exclave
fly away home
aneurin bevan
fibroblast
backstreet boys
heavy metal (magazine)
the conversation
weta (band)
operation entebbe