Provincial capitals of Spain
The provincial capitals are the cities that act as administrative capital of each of the Spanish provinces. This list brings together the provincial capitals of Spain in alphabetical order and links the corresponding municipal page.
Provincial capitals of Spain
These are the provincial capitals in alphabetical order:
- Capital of the province of Álava — Vitoria-Gasteiz
- Capital of the province of Albacete — Albacete
- Capital of the province of Alicante — Alicante
- Capital of the province of Almería — Almería
- Capital of the province of Asturias — Oviedo
- Capital of the province of Ávila — Ávila
- Capital of the province of Badajoz — Badajoz
- Capital of the province of Barcelona — Barcelona
- Capital of the province of Burgos — Burgos
- Capital of the province of Cáceres — Cáceres
- Capital of the province of Cádiz — Cádiz
- Capital of the province of Cantabria — Santander
- Capital of the province of Castellón — Castellón de la Plana
- Capital of the province of Ciudad Real — Ciudad Real
- Capital of the province of Córdoba — Córdoba
- Capital of the province of A Coruña — A Coruña
- Capital of the province of Cuenca — Cuenca
- Capital of the province of Girona — Girona
- Capital of the of Granada — Granada
- Capital of the province of Guadalajara — Guadalajara
- Capital of the province of Guipúzcoa — San Sebastián
- Capital of the province of Huelva — Huelva
- Capital of the province of Huesca — Huesca
- Capital of the province of the Illes Balears — Palma
- Capital of the province of Jaén — Jaén
- Capital of the province of La Rioja — Logroño
- Capital of the province of Las Palmas — Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
- Capital of the province of León — León
- Capital of the province of Lleida — Lleida
- Capital of the province of Lugo — Lugo
- Capital of the province of Madrid — Madrid
- Capital of the province of Málaga — Málaga
- Capital of the province of Murcia — Murcia
- Capital of the province of Navarra — Pamplona
- Capital of the province of Ourense — Ourense
- Capital of the province of Palencia — Palencia
- Capital of the province of Pontevedra — Pontevedra
- Capital of the province of Salamanca — Salamanca
- Capital of the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife — Santa Cruz de Tenerife
- Capital of the province of Segovia — Segovia
- Capital of the province of Seville — Sevilla
- Capital of the province of Soria — Soria
- Capital of the province of Tarragona — Tarragona
- Capital of the province of Teruel — Teruel
- Capital of the province of Toledo — Toledo
- Capital of the province of Valencia — Valencia
- Capital of the province of Valladolid — Valladolid
- Capital of the province of Vizcaya — Bilbao
- Capital of the province of Zamora — Zamora
- Capital of the province of Zaragoza — Zaragoza
In the uniprovincial autonomous communities, the capital of the province coincides with the capital of the Autonomous Community. They are uniprovincial Autonomous communities: Asturias, Cantabria, Navarra, La Rioja, Madrid, Murcia and the Baleares.
These are the 17 capitals of Autonomous communities: Barcelona, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Santa Cruz de Tenerife (these two cities have the shared capital of the Canarias), Logroño, Madrid, Mérida, Murcia, Oviedo, Palma, Pamplona, Santander, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Toledo, Valencia, Valladolid, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Zaragoza.
All these cities capitals of autonomous community are at the same time capitals of their province, except Mérida that is not capital of their province Badajoz (the capital of the province of Badajoz is the city of Badajoz ) and Santiago de Compostela which is not capital of your province A Coruña (the capital of the province of A Coruña is the city of A Coruña ).