Spain is located on the Iberian Peninsula in southwestern Europe. It has a total area of 505,370 square kilometers and is bordered by Portugal, France, and the Mediterranean Sea. The country's terrain consists of mountainous central regions surrounded by coastal lowlands, with much of the population living in cities along the coast. Spain has a population of over 47 million people and its largest industries include tourism, agriculture, and manufacturing. Major environmental issues include pollution of the Mediterranean Sea and problems with water quality, supply, and pollution from various sources.

1. Presented By:
 Varsha Sharma

2. Location and Geography
Spain is located on the Iberian
Peninsula.
Its total area is : 505,370 sq km
It is in the southwest of Europe.
It is the Second largest Country
in Western Europe.
 Gibraltar is a waterway that
separates Spain from Africa.

3. Geography
Spain's boundaries: 88% of the Boundaries of Spain is
connected with Water(Mediterranean Sea and
Atlantic Ocean). The Cantabrian Sea is to the north,
the Mediterranean Sea to the south-southeast,
Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and
France and Andorra to the northeast.
Much of central Spain is covered by plateau
surrounded by mountain ranges.

4. Location
There are also some lowlands
located on the coast.
For most of the century, most
Spanish people lived in small
villages or towns.
Today, tourism and industry
are bringing many people to
the larger cities and coastal
areas.

5. People and Society
Nationality:
Noun: Spaniard(s)
Adjective: Spanish
Ethnic groups: Composite of Mediterranean and Nordic types.
Languages: Castilian Spanish (official) 74 percent, Catalan 17
percent, Galician 7 percent, and Basque 2 percent.
Religions: Roman Catholic 94 percent and other 6 percent.

6. Capital: Madrid
National day:, 12th October
Type of government: Parliamentary monarchy
Demography :
Population47,042,984 (July 2012 est.)
People and Society

7. Food and Daily life
 A traditional Spanish food, agriculture, animal husbandry and products
of society. Principal items of bread, rice, garden vegetables, cured pork
products, lamb and veal, made from grapes fruits, grapes and wine,
locally available wild plants, fish , and shellfish, olive oil.
 Home honey production scale used today by some of the poorest areas,
cane and beet products have been commercialized. Garden vegetables,
potatoes, peppers, tomatoes, carrots, cabbages and chard, green peas,
asparagus, artichokes and vegetables thistle, zucchini squash, and color
is the most important. The most important vine fruit, grapes and
melons, and in some areas of farming fun.

8. Basic Economy
 Spain is a pastoral, agricultural, and commercial nation. In the mid-
twentieth century as the country was predominantly rural. Today, more
highly developed industry, and Spain is a member of the European
Economic Community and participates in the global economy.
 Land base and agricultural mechanization, modern agriculture, farmers
in much of the United States voluntary restructuring, the development,
in rural areas lead to migration to the cities of Spain in the twentieth
century to increase significantly.
 Blue and white collar jobs offer farm families and descendants of other
industrial cities after the Second World War with the development of
the industry. Spanish countryside is largely self-sufficient.

9. Main Industries
 Heavy industry in Spain with investment, since the end of civil war
developed with the input of the United States is in the middle of the
twentieth century.
 Spain's weapons and ammunition manufacturing agricultural
machinery, vehicles, equipment and other types of production are still
important. North and East, Bilbao, Barcelona, Valencia, Madrid,
Zaragoza and the industry is concentrated around major cities.
 Since 1950, Spain's economy , the tourism industry is the most far-
reaching multidimensional development . The number of tourists who
visit Spain each year, Spain's resident population is almost the same.

10. Hotel, restaurant and tourism and regional formation of
Spain's most important industry -related services, and whose
influence is felt in every corner of the country.
 Some of the growing international demand for Spanish foods
and Spanish wines are growing introduces floodways. Spanish
leather goods, pottery and other crafts a higher and more and
more of the global market.
Main Industries

11. Business
 Spain, the European Economic Community (Common Market),
and there is a huge business relationships with United States &
Japan. The main export of leather and textile goods with Spain.
The first designated commercial food, ceramic, stone, and tile
commodities, metals, and various types of production equipment
 Perhaps the source of the crude oil and energy dependence at
the expense of Spain’s most important Spanish customers is
high.

12. Environmental
The Biggest problem in Spain is
pollution of the Mediterranean
Sea from raw sewage and
effluents from the offshore
production of oil and gas.
The other pollution are water
quality and quantity nationwide,
air pollution, deforestation.

13. Other environmental issues of Spain
Desertification
Forest fires in spain
Greenhouse expansion in
almeria
Drought in spain
Spain and asian Bird flu
Glaciers melting in the
Pyrenees

14. Activities of Spain
Spain has already ratified many agreements focused on marine
issues It has been particularly active in protecting the
Mediterranean Sea.
The Spanish coasts are in some of the world's main
hydrocarbon trade routes, but there is no surveillance system
in place to monitor and track ships that carry out illegal
dumping in Spanish waters.

15. The European Union (EU) Committee on Transport and
Energy has addressed the problem but no action has been put
into operation because the actions have not been approved.
A further strain has been imposed by the illegal digging of
boreholes which suck water out of the aquifers. There are
estimated to be over 500.000 boreholes in Spain, and every
effort to control them has met with fierce resistance.
Activities of Spain

16. India Spain
Capital city with
population
New Delhi -
294,149
Madrid -
2,947,228
Precipitation 2,168 mm 456 mm
tallest mountains Kanchenjunga Pico de Teide
GEPGRAPHY STATUS: INDIA VS SPAIN

17. GEPGRAPHY STATUS: INDIA VS SPAIN
India Spain
Total Area (Sq.
Km.)
3287260 505370
Population
Density
336.62 people per
Sq. Km.
78.43 people per
Sq. Km.
Largest City Mumbai Madrid
Forest Area (Sq.
Km.)
677598 185066
Rural Population
Density
488.84 people Sq.
Km.
73.81 people Sq.
Km.
Latitude 35’30’N 43’47’N

18. India Spain
Business
efficiency
59.053 59.43
Economic
importance
2.1 8.1
Income category Low income High income:
OECD
Economic
freedom
1.5 2.65
ENVIRONMENTAL STATUS: INDIA VS SPAIN

19. ENVIRONMENTAL STATUS: INDIA VS SPAIN
INDIA SPAIN
GDP(per capita) $3751.99 $25467.15
Gross National
Income(per $
GDP)
$14.37 per $100 $6271 per $100
Human
development Index
0.602 0.928
Technological
achievement
0.2 0.48
Income
Distribution(Poor)
3.5% 2.8%
Income
Distribution(Rich)
33.5% 25.2%