**Spain**, officially the Kingdom of Spain (Spanish: Reino de España), is a sovereign state and a member of the European Union located in southwestern [[placed_in::continents:europe|Europe]] on the Iberian Peninsula. Its mainland is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea except for a small land boundary with the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar; to the north and north east by [[countries:france|France]], [[countries:andorra|Andorra]], and the Bay of Biscay; and to the northwest and west by the Atlantic Ocean and [[countries:portugal|Portugal]].

Spain with an area of [[area:=504,030 km^2|504,030 km2]] is the second largest [[category:country]] in Western Europe and the European Union after [[countries:france|France]], and the fourth largest country in Europe after [[countries:russia|Russia]], [[countries:ukraine|Ukraine]] and [[countries:france|France]].

People in Spain speak [[language::languages:spanish]].

Source: en.wikipedia.org