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Spain (officially the Kingdom of Spain) is a sovereign state located on the Iberian Peninsula in southwestern Europe. With a landmass of 504,782 km2, Spain is the second largest country in the European Union and the world’s 51st largest country. As well as the Spanish mainland, the country also consists of the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean and the Canary Islands off the west coast of Africa. Spain is bordered to the north by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay (Cantabrian Sea); to the east by the Mediterranean; to the south by the Mediterranean and Gibraltar; and to the west, Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean. It also has land borders with Morocco via Melilla, Ceuta, and Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera.
Spain has the ninth largest economy in the world and the fifth largest in Europe (Oficina de Información Diplomática 2012). The main sector of economy includes tourism, metal production, automotive industry, shipbuilding, food processing, and textile....
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Regueiro y González-Barros, M. (2016). Spain: Mineral Policy. In: Tiess, G., Majumder, T., Cameron, P. (eds) Encyclopedia of Mineral and Energy Policy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40871-7_44-1
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