Ibi

Ibi is a town located in the comarca of L'Alcoi?, in the province of Alicante, Spain. According to the 2002 census, Ibi has a total population of 22,140 inhabitants, an area of 62.5 km2 and a population density of 354.24 inhab/km2. The town, which is located 37 km from the city of Alicante, is surrounded by mountains and gorges.

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The economy of Ibi is chiefly based on the toy industry, the most important of this kind in Spain. As a result, many other related industries have also emerged in the last years: plastic, metal, machinery and so on. There are some factories of construction materials, ice creams and tiger nut milk, too. Some of the most important monuments in Ibi are the Catholic church of the Transfiguration and the monument to the Three Wise Men, the only one in the world.

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Comarca: In several regions of Iberian peninsula, comarca refers to a reduced extension of land characterized by a certain degree of unity because of some common natural or geographic conditions, history and neighborhood....

Alicante: Alicante (Castillian Spanish) or Alacant (Valencian Catalan) is the capital of the province of Alicante and of the comarca of the Alacant?, in the southern part of the Land of Valencia, Spain, a historic Mediterranean port. The population of the city of Alicante proper was 316,000, estimated as of ...

Spain: The Kingdom of Spain or Spain (Spanish and Galician: Reino de Espa?a or Espa?a; Catalan: Regne d'Espanya; Basque: Espainiako Erresuma; Asturian: Reinu d'Espa?a or Espa?a) is a country located in the southwest of Europe. It shares the Iberian Peninsula with Portugal, Gibraltar and Andorra. To the nor...