Autonomous community of Spain

Valencian Community

Valencian Community is an autonomous community of Spain. It covers about 23,300 km² (8,980 mi²), the 8th largest of the 19 autonomous communities and cities in Natural Earth’s file for Spain, and 1.04× the size of Belize. About 5.3 million people live there (Wikidata, 2024).

In area1.04×the size ofBelize22,300 km² In people1.00×as many people asNew Zealand5.3 million

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Area, measured	23,300 km²8,980 mi²
Official area	23,300 km²Wikidata · agrees with our measure
Share of Spain	4.6%of the area of the 19 autonomous communities and cities
Rank by area	8th of 19autonomous communities and cities of Spain
Population	5.3 millionWikidata, 2024
Density	229 people per km²
Capital	Valencia
Latitude range	38°N to 41°N
Type	Autonomous communityES-VC

What the numbers say about Valencian Community

Valencian Community covers 4.6% of the area of Spain and ranks 4th of 19 by population, against 8th by area.
It would take 21.8 autonomous communities and cities the size of Valencian Community to cover Spain.
The largest, Castile and León, is 4.07× the size of Valencian Community; the smallest, Melilla, is less than 0.1% of it.
Closest in size within Spain: Galicia (29,600 km², 1.27×) and Catalonia (32,000 km², 1.37×).
Counted as a country, Valencian Community would be larger than 90 of the 239 countries and territories listed on sizeversus, and would rank 150th by area, between Rwanda (25,300 km²) and Belize (22,300 km²).
With 5.3 million people it would rank 119th of 238 by population.
Valencian Community has 229 people per km², about the density of Nigeria, which has 233 per km².
That makes Valencian Community the 8th most densely populated of the 19 autonomous communities and cities, 2.39× the average for Spain (96 per km²).
On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 39°N is drawn about 1.7× too large in area, so Valencian Community looks bigger there than it is.
Laid out flat, Valencian Community stretches about 326 km north to south and 174 km east to west.
Wikidata's official figure of 23,300 km² agrees with our measured area of 23,300 km², to within 2%.

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Sources and method

Outline: Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 1 - States, Provinces, public domain: the 3 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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Where Valencian Community sits in Spain

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