Barcelona
The Province of Barcelona is one of the four provinces of Catalonia, centred around the Catalan capital Barcelona. Dominated by its capital, it features both an extensive Mediterranean coast with many popular beach resorts, as well as a mountain range rising far over 1,000 m in the immediate vicinity of the coast.Photo: amadalvarez, CC BY-SA 2.5.
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Popular Destinations
Barcelona
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Barcelona is Spain's second largest city, with a population of nearly two million people, and the capital of Catalonia.
Malgrat de Mar
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Malgrat de Mar is a seaside town on Spain's Costa del Maresme.
Badalona
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Badalona is a city in Catalonia, north from Barcelona and part of its metropolis, along the Mediterranean sea coastline.
Destinations
L'Hospitalet de Llobregat
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L'Hospitalet de Llobregat isn’t a beautiful city. It’s a "bedroom town" southwest of Barcelona.
Mataró
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Mataró is a city of 129,000 people in Catalonia. Mataró is the birthplace of noucentista architect Josep Puig i Cadafalch, who designed the ajuntament and several other notable buildings in the town.
Manresa
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Manresa is in Barcelona, located 57 km from the capital, with a population of 77,558 inhabitants.
Sitges
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Sitges is a lovely town of 29,000 people. It is a seaside resort some 35 km southwest of Barcelona in Catalonia.
El Prat de Llobregat
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El Prat de Llobregat is small city of 64,000 people in the Baix Llobregat region of Catalonia.
Vilanova i la Geltrú
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Vilanova i la Geltrú is a city in Barcelona province.
Viladecans
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Viladecans is a town near Barcelona, Spain. It is located between Sant Boi de Llobregat and Sant Climent de Llobregat, and is on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea between El Prat de Llobregat and Gavà.
Barcelona El Prat Airport
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Barcelona International Airport, also known as El Prat, is a major transport hub of the city of Barcelona and the whole Catalonia.
Sant Boi de Llobregat
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Sant Boi is a city near the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, in the south of Catalonia, 11 km from the biggest city, Barcelona.
Calella
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Calella is a municipality of 19,000 people in the northern part of Barcelona in Catalonia.
Canet de Mar
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Canet de Mar is a municipality in the province of Barcelona, 43 km from Barcelona, between the municipalities of Arenys de Mar and Sant Pol de Mar.
Cardona
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Cardona is a municipality of 4,700 people about 90 km north of Barcelona in Catalonia.
Begues
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Begues is a small town near Barcelona. It has a population of 7,000 people.
Artés
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Artés is a town of 5,600 people in Barcelona and is an stage in the Catalan Way of St.
Santa Susanna
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Santa Susanna is a resort city of 3,400 people on the Costa Maresme in Catalonia.
Santa Coloma de Cervelló
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Santa Coloma de Cervelló is a municipality and small town near Barcelona in Spain.
Sant Pol de Mar
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Sant Pol de Mar is a municipality of 5,200 people in the comarca of Maresme in Catalonia.
Montserrat
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Montserrat is a multi-peaked mountain in Catalonia and part of the Montserrat Natural Park.
La Palma de Cervelló
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La Palma de Cervelló is a village in the Province of Barcelona.
La Llacuna
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La Llacuna is a small town of about 850 people in Catalonia, Spain.
L'Esquirol
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L'Esquirol is in Barcelona and is a stage in the Catalan Way of St.
Sant Llorenç del Munt i l'Obac Natural Park
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Sant Llorenç del Munt i l'Obac Natural Park is in Barcelona of Catalonia.
Parc del Garraf
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Parc del Garraf is in Barcelona of Catalonia. Great views over the sea and of the arid interior lands.
Parc del Montnegre i el Corredor
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Parc del Montnegre i el Corredor is in Barcelona of Catalonia in Spain.
Collserola Natural Park
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Collserola Natural Park is a park the preserves part of the Serra de Collserola mountains in Barcelona and Barcelona city.
Montserrat Natural Park
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Montserrat Natural Park is in Barcelona of Catalonia.
Barcelona
- Type: province of Spain with 5,740,000 residents
- Description: province in Catalonia, Spain
- Neighbors: Girona, Lleida and Tarragona
- Location: Catalonia, Eastern Spain, Spain, Iberia, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
41.6667° or 41° 40' northLongitude of center
2° eastPopulation
5,740,000Elevation
875 metres (2,871 feet)GeoNames ID
3128759Wikidata ID
Q81949Barcelona Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Albanian: Provinca Barcelona
- Arabic: Provincia de Barcelona
- Arabic: برشلونة
- Arabic: مقاطعة برشلونة
- Aragonese: Barzelona
- Aragonese: Provincia de Barcelona
- Aragonese: provincia de Barcelona
- Armenian: Բարսելոնայի պրովինցիա
- Asturian: Barcelona
- Asturian: Provincia de Barcelona
- Asturian: provincia de Barcelona
- Azerbaijani: Barselona vilayəti
- Basque: Bartzelona
- Basque: Bartzelonako probintzia
- Bavarian: Provinz Barcelona
- Belarusian: Барселона, правінцыя
- Belarusian: Барселона
- Belarusian: правінцыя Барселона
- Belarusian: правінцыя Барсэлёна
- Bengali: বার্সেলোনা প্রদেশ
- Breton: Proviñs Barcelona
- Bulgarian: Барселона (провинция)
- Bulgarian: Барселона
- Catalan: Barcelona
- Catalan: Província de Barcelona
- Catalan: província de Barcelona
- Cebuano: Província de Barcelona
- Chinese: Barcelona Séng
- Chinese: 巴塞罗那省
- Chinese: 巴塞隆拿省
- Chinese: 巴塞隆納省
- Chinese: 巴薩隆拿省
- Croatian: Barcelona
- Czech: Provincie Barcelona
- Danish: Barcelona
- Dimli (individual language): Barselona (wılayet)
- Dutch: Barcelona
- English: Barcelona Province
- English: Province of Barcelona
- English: provincia de Barcelona
- Esperanto: Provinco Barcelono
- Estonian: Barcelona provints
- Finnish: Barcelona
- Finnish: Provincia de Barcelona
- French: Province de Barcelone
- French: province de Barcelone
- Galician: Barcelona provincia
- Galician: Provincia de Barcelona
- Galician: provincia de Barcelona
- Georgian: ბარსელონის პროვინცია
- German: Barcelona
- German: Provinz Barcelona
- Greek: Επαρχία της Βαρκελώνης
- Greek: Περιφέρια της Βαρκελώνης
- Gujarati: બાર્સિલોના પ્રાંત
- Hakka Chinese: Barcelona-sén
- Hausa: Barcelona-sén
- Hebrew: מחוז ברצלונה
- Hindi: बार्सीलोना प्रांत
- Hungarian: Barcelona
- Hungarian: Barcelona tartomány
- Icelandic: Barselóna-hérað
- Indonesian: Provinsi Barcelona
- Interlingua: Provincia Barcelona
- Interlingue: Provincia de Barcelona
- Irish: Cúige Barcelona
- Italian: provincia di Barcellona
- Japanese: ばるせろな
- Japanese: バルセロナ
- Japanese: バルセロナ県
- Kannada: ಬಾರ್ಸಿಲೋನಾ ಪ್ರಾಂತ್ಯ
- Kazakh: Барселона
- Korean: 바르셀로나주
- Kurdish: parêzgeha Barselonayê
- Ladin: Provinzia de Barcelona
- Ladino: Barselona
- Ladino: Provinsia de Barselona
- Latin: Provincia Barcinonensis
- Latvian: Barselonas province
- Lingua Franca Nova: Provinse Barselona
- Lingua Franca Nova: Provinse de Barcelona
- Lithuanian: Barselonos provincija
- Luxembourgish: Provënz Barcelona
- Macedonian: Барселона (покраина)
- Malay: Barcelona Province
- Marathi: बार्सिलोना प्रांत
- Min Nan Chinese: Barcelona Séng
- Mingrelian: ბარსელონაშ პროვინცია
- Nepali: बार्सेलोना प्रान्त
- Newari: बार्सेलोना प्रान्त
- Northern Frisian: Prowins Barcelona
- Northern Luri: آستوٙن بارسئلون
- Northern Sami: Barcelona eanangoddi
- Norwegian: Barcelona
- Norwegian Bokmål: Barcelona
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Provinsen Barcelona
- Occitan (post 1500): Barcelona
- Ossetian: Барселонæ (провинци)
- Ossetian: Барселонæ
- Ossetian: Барселонæйы провинци
- Pampanga: Barcelona
- Papiamento: provinsia di Barcelona
- Persian: استان بارسلون
- Polish: Barcelona
- Portuguese: Barcelona
- Romanian: Provincia Barcelona
- Russian: Барселона
- Scots: Province o Barcelona
- Scottish Gaelic: Barcelona
- Serbian: Покрајина Барселона
- Serbian: Провинција Барселона
- Serbo-Croatian: Barcelona (pokrajina)
- Serbo-Croatian: Barcelona
- Sinhala: බාසිලෝනා පළාත
- Slovenian: Provinca Barcelona
- South Azerbaijani: بارسلون اوستانی
- Spanish: Barcelona
- Spanish: Barcelona provincia
- Spanish: Provincia de Barcelona
- Spanish: provincia de Barcelona
- Swahili: Mkoa wa Barcelona
- Swedish: Barcelona (provins)
- Swedish: Barcelona
- Swedish: Barcelona provins
- Swedish: Barcelonaprovinsen
- Swedish: Provincia de Barcelona
- Tagalog: Lalawigan ng Barcelona
- Tamil: பார்ஸலோனா மாகாணம்
- Telugu: బార్సిలోనా ప్రావిన్స్
- Telugu: బార్సిలోనా రాష్ట్రభాగం
- Thai: จังหวัดบาร์เซโลนา
- Turkish: Barselona Metropol Bölgesi
- Turkish: Barselona ili
- Ukrainian: Барселона
- Ukrainian: провінція Барселона
- Urdu: صوبہ برشلونہ
- Uzbek: Barselona
- Venetian: Provincia de Barcełona
- Venetian: Provincia de Barsełona
- Vietnamese: Barcelona
- Waray (Philippines): Provincia de Barcelona
- Welsh: Talaith Barcelona
- Western Armenian: Նահանգ
- Wu Chinese: 巴塞罗那省
- Yue Chinese: 巴薩隆拿省
- Provincia di Barcellona
- 바르셀로나도
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Barcelona. Photo: Alex Micheu Photography, CC BY-SA 3.0.