Political map of Spain: Communities, capitals and provinces

Los accessible maps for blind and visually impaired people are a priority in the design, creation and constant improvement of adapted materials and for an inclusive education that we seek from the ONCE Social Group, with areas such as the ONCE Bibliographic Service or the Spanish Braille Commission. This is the Political map of Spain, with all updated data:

Spain, also called the Kingdom of Spain, is a country that has an area of 505,944 square kilometers and which is located in the Iberian Peninsula, the Canary Islands, the Balearic Islands and North Africa in the cities of Ceuta and Melilla, as can be seen on this political map. This fact gives the territory the status of a transcontinental country, being present in more than one continent. The capital of Spain is Madridand the country consists of 17 autonomous communities yes 2 autonomous cities which are, in turn, divided into 52 provinces in total.

Spain has been a member of the European Union since 1986 and is constituted as a state of social and democratic law whose system of government is the parliamentary monarchy. It has a total population of 47,450,795 inhabitantsdigit that makes it eThe fourth most populous country in the European Unionbehind Germany, France and Italy.

On this page we offer you the representation of the territory in the form of a political map of Spain. The peculiarity of this map and what makes it unique is that, in addition to performing its usual function, it is completely designed to be usable by blind and visually impaired people.

Political map of Spain: materials for the accessibility of the blind

From the Social group ONCE We are actively working to make life easier for the blind with maps like the ones you find here. This political map of Spain is designed so that everything can be touched and heard, and so that all people can fully understand and understand the particularities of the Spanish territory.

The ONCE Bibliographic Service (SBO) is responsible for building these maps with very specific procedures. First, the map matrix is ​​designed and, with it, all the physical and braille elements necessary so that, from that moment on, all the necessary copies can be made. Subsequently the maps are printed on a large format printer on a sheet of plastic material and, with heat and suction, the map is glued perfectly to the relief of the plastic. This manufacturing method is similar to that used for tourist surveys of towns or specific mountainous areas.

This process is applied to the creation of the map of Spain and the rest of the maps produced by Grupo Social ONCE.

Also, the ONCE Bibliographic Service and the Spanish Braille Commission have recently prepared and published a new edition of the physical map of Spain which includes an explanatory guide.

It is an educational material aimed at students and the general public. It is primarily intended for exploration through touch, but combining relief shapes with a visual representation in well-contrasted colors. In this way, in addition to providing an additional means of perception to people with different visual impairments, the goal is also to encourage the participation of those who do not have any visual impairment, in order to foster mutual inclusion between groups and advertise our educational materials beyond your usual audience.

However, the priority is the purely tactile experience, so some preliminary adaptation work is necessary for the exploration of the map to allow a good spatial understanding of each element separately and of all of them, which also happens with the political map and all its lines and boundaries.

This map and the rest of the collection are the result of joint work over the years between the Spanish Braille Commission and the ONCE Bibliographic Service. Following the initial pedagogical criteria established by the Educational Department of ONCE, a team of professionals was tasked with preparing the guidelines for the production of these materials. Their accumulated experience and the information provided by users on the understanding and usefulness of the maps have been very useful in reviewing and updating the processing criteria which will improve the final product.

Download or print the political map of Spain

You can then download and then print the file political map of Spain accessible via this link (5.29 MB).

In this In the PDF file you will also find the guide to the codes of all the autonomous communities with their respective provinces (4.61 MB).

Besides, you can also get the key guide separately and the audio needed to identify the particularities of the accessible Spain map (7,11 MB).

In this table you can see the list of autonomous communities, their respective capitals, all their provinces and the total number of inhabitants in each region. The necessary and very useful information to complete the political map of Spain.

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