Aragon

This article is about the geographical region. For the poet, see Louis Aragon. For the Olympic medallist, see Aragon (horse).

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Aragon (Spanish and Aragonese: Arag?n; Catalan: Arag?) is an autonomous community of north-eastern Spain. It has an area of 47,719 km? with a population of 1,217,514 (2003).

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Aragon is bounded on the north by France, on the east by Catalonia, on the south by Valencia, and on the west by Castile-La Mancha, Castile-Leon, La Rioja, and Navarre (Spanish: Navarra). It comprises the provinces of Zaragoza (English: Saragossa or Caesaraugusta), Huesca, and Teruel. It is traversed by the Ebro, mountainous in the north; with beautiful fertile valleys, rather barren, in the south.

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Its capital is Zaragoza.

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In addition to its three provinces, Aragon is subdivided into 33 comarcas (counties).

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