Autonomous community of Spain

Castile and León

Castile and León is an autonomous community of Spain. It covers about 94,800 km² (36,600 mi²), the largest of the 19 autonomous communities and cities in Natural Earth’s file for Spain, and about the same size as Liberia. About 2.4 million people live there (Wikidata, 2024).

In area0.99×the size ofLiberia95,300 km² In people0.99×as many people asMoldova2.4 million

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Area, measured	94,800 km²36,600 mi²
Official area	94,200 km²Wikidata · agrees with our measure
Share of Spain	19%of the area of the 19 autonomous communities and cities
Rank by area	1st of 19autonomous communities and cities of Spain
Population	2.4 millionWikidata, 2024
Density	25 people per km²
Latitude range	40°N to 43°N
Type	Autonomous communityES-CL

What the numbers say about Castile and León

Castile and León covers 19% of the area of Spain and ranks 6th of 19 by population, against 1st by area.
It would take 5.35 autonomous communities and cities the size of Castile and León to cover Spain.
The smallest, Melilla, is less than 0.1% of the size of Castile and León; the next largest, Andalusia, is 93%.
Closest in size within Spain: Andalusia (87,700 km², 1.08×) and Castilla–La Mancha (79,400 km², 1.19×).
Counted as a country, Castile and León would be larger than 130 of the 239 countries and territories listed on sizeversus, and would rank 110th by area, between Liberia (95,300 km²) and Hungary (93,200 km²).
With 2.4 million people it would rank 146th of 238 by population.
Castile and León has 25 people per km², about the density of Brazil, which has 25 per km².
That makes Castile and León the 18th most densely populated of the 19 autonomous communities and cities, 26% of the average for Spain (96 per km²).
On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 42°N is drawn about 1.8× too large in area, so Castile and León looks bigger there than it is.
Laid out flat, Castile and León stretches about 350 km north to south and 436 km east to west.
Wikidata's official figure of 94,200 km² agrees with our measured area of 94,800 km², to within 2%.

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Sources and method

Outline: Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 1 - States, Provinces, public domain: the 9 provinces of this autonomous community in the file, joined along their shared borders.
Boundary: De facto, as drawn by Natural Earth.
Area: Measured on the WGS84 ellipsoid from the full-detail outline, shown rounded. The region’s whole area is counted, every island included.
Official figures: Area, population and capital from Wikidata (CC0), fetched 2026-11-12
Population: Wikidata, 2024. Spain’s units share the 2024 figures where Wikidata has them; the year is shown wherever the figure is.
Matching: Countries come from Natural Earth’s country file. Places whose status is contested and dependencies are never used as automatic matches. A region under 2,500 km² is matched against the small countries and island nations.
Data built: 2026-11-12

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