A Coruña
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Corunna A Coruña (in Galicie) La Coruña (in Spaingie) | ||
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 Top: Hercules Touer. 2nd: tramwey (left), Ceety Haw (richt). 3rd: Dársena Deportiva yacht marina. 4t row: A Coruña Marine Control Touer (left) San Antón Paseo watterfront aurie (richt). 5t: Panorama o A Coruña ceety centre an Orzán Beach. Bottom: Estadio Riazor . | ||
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| Nickname(s): A cidade de cristal (The Glass Ceety) | ||
| Motto(s): A Coruña, a cidade onde ninguén é forasteiro (A Coruña, the ceety whaur naebouk is a stranger) | ||
  Corunna Location o A Coruña athin Spain | ||
| Coordinates: 43°21′54″N 8°24′36″W / 43.365°N 8.410°WCoordinates: 43°21′54″N 8°24′36″W / 43.365°N 8.410°W | ||
| Kintra | Spain | |
| Autonomous commonty | Galicie | |
| Province | A Coruña | |
| Comarca | A Coruña | |
| Parishes | A Coruña, Elviña, Oza, San Cristovo das Viñas, Visma | |
| Govrenment | ||
| • Teep | Mayor-cooncil | |
| • Bodi | Concello de A Coruña (Cooncil o A Coruña) | |
| • Mayor | Xulio Ferreiro (Marea Atlántica) | |
| Area | ||
| • Municipality | 37.83 km2 (14.61 sq mi) | |
| Population (2008)INE | ||
| • Municipality | 246,056 | |
| • Density | 6,613/km2 (17,130/sq mi) | |
| • Metro | 419,800 | |
| Demonym(s) | Corunnan coruñés, coruñesa (gl/es) | |
| Time zone | CET (GMT +1) | |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (GMT +2) | |
| Postcode | 15001-15011 | |
| Aurie code(s) | +34 981 | |
| Wabsteid | www | |
A Coruña (Inglis /ə koʊˈruːn.jə/; Galician: [a koˈɾuɲa] (offeecial name); Spaingie: La Coruña [la koˈɾuɲa]; still whiles kent as Corunna /kəˈrʌnə/ in Inglis, an archaically as The Groyne) is a ceety an municipality o Galicie, Spain. It is the seicont-lairgest ceety in the autonomous commonty an seiventeent oweraw in the kintra. The ceety is the provincial caipital o the province o the same name, haein servit as poleetical caipital o the Kinrick o Galicie[1][2] frae the 16t tae the 19t hunderyears, an as a regional admeenistrative centre atween 1833 an 1982, afore bein replacit bi Santiago de Compostela.
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Internaitional relations[eedit | eedit soorce]
See an aa: Leet o twin touns an sister ceeties in Spain
Twin touns – Sister ceeties[eedit | eedit soorce]
A Coruña is twinned wi:
References[eedit | eedit soorce]
- ↑ "La Coruña, capital militar y administrativa del Reino..." de Artaza, Manuel María (1998). Rey, reino y representación: la Junta General del Reino de Galicia (1599–1834). Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. p. 71. ISBN 978-84-00-07779-2.
- ↑ "The city of Corunna, Armory, Capital, and Head of the Kingdom of Galicia..." (1748), in Vigo Trasancos, Alfredo (1998). "El capitán general Pedro Martín Cermeño y el Reino de Galicia". Semata Ciencias Socias e Humanidades. 10: 177. Retrieved 9 October 2011.
Freemit airtins[eedit | eedit soorce]
Travel guide tae A Coruña frae Wikivoyage
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