Province o Lugo

Lugo
Lugo; Provincia de Lugo
	Province
	Province o Lugo
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Kintra	Spain
Autonomous commonty	Galicia
Caipital	Lugo
Govrenment
• Bodi	Diputación de Lugo
• Preses	José Ramón Gómez Besteiro (Socialist Pairty o Galicie)
Area
• Total	9,856 km2 (3,805 sq mi)
Area rank	25th
Population (2008)
• Total	355,549
• Rank	37t
Demonym(s)	Lugués (m), Luguesa (f); Lucense
Postal code	27---
ISO 3166 code	ES-LU
Pairlament	15 deputies (oot o 75)
Congress	4 deputies (oot o 350)
Senate	4 senators (oot o 264)
Website	http://www.deputacionlugo.org/

Lugo is a province o northwastren Spain, in the northeastren pairt o the autonomous commonty o Galicie. It is bordered bi the provinces o Ourense, Pontevedra, an A Coruña, the principality o Asturias, the State o León, an in the north bi the Cantabrie Sea (Bay o Biscay).

The population is 356,595 (2006), o whom a quairter live in the caipital Lugo. The caipital ceety wis a auncient Celtic dounset namit in honour o the god Lugh (see Lyon), later Laitinisit as Lucus Augusti, an which became ane o the three main important Galicie-Roman centres alangside Braccara Augusta an Asturica Augusta (modren Braga an Astorga respectively). The province haes 67 municipalities.

Leids

The vast majority o fowk hae a common leid which is Galicie. Some fowk, especially the aulder generation, are monolingual an anerly speak Galicie. Thare are anerly a few fowk bilingual in Galicie an Castilian o the little ower 10,000 inhabitants. Even in the caipital, the vitality o the Galicie leid in conversation is vera strang.

They speak several variants o Galicie in the province o Lugo. They hae the characteristics o being the closest tae León isoglosses an tharefore the Castilian leid an aw. So they hae some grammatical an phonetic signs that are mistakenly considered influences o the Castilian or Leonese leids. Housomeivver, the leid o Galicie in Lugo, especially in nan-coastal auries, is probably the maist genuine in Galicia, due tae amaist no historic pressur o Castilian exercisit on the landwart population.