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Galicia

Galicia/Galicia or Galiza

General information
Population: 2.771.341 inhabitants (2007)
Area: 29.574 km²
Institutions: Xunta de Galicia
State administration: Spain
Major cities: Santiago de Compostela, Vigo, A Coruña
Territorial language: Galician
Official language: Galician and Spanish
National Day: 25 July
Major religion: Christianity (Catholicism)

Politics

Capital: Santiago de Compostela
President: Alberto Núñez Feijóo, PP (2009)
Political system: Autonomous Community within the unitary Spanish state
Distribution of seats in Parliament (2009). 75 members:
Partido Popular de Galicia (PPG, Galicia People's Party): 38
Partido Socialista de Galicia (PsdeG, Galicia Socialist Party): 25
Bloque Nacionalista Galego (BNG, Galician Nationalist Bloc): 12
Electoral system: proportional
Government: PPG

Degree of autonomy
As a historical nation within the Spanish State, Galicia enjoys its own devolved powers and a selfgovernance superior from the rest of Spanish autonomous communities, although not as much as Catalonia, Euskadi or Navarra.

Links

Politics
Xunta de Galicia www.xunta.es
Galician Parliament www.parlamentodegalicia.es

Language and Culture
Galician Association for the Language www.agal-gz.org
Association PuntoGal, for a .gal domain www.puntogal.org

Media
A Nosa Terra newspaper, on-line edition www.anosaterra.org
De Luns a Venres newspaper, on-line edition www.l-v.es

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