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Presented By: Varsha Sharma

GEOGRAPHY&

ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUEOF

SPAIN

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.

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.

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.

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.

Capital: Madrid National day:, 12th October Type of government:

Parliamentary monarchy Demography : Population47,042,984 (July 2012

est.)

People and Society

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 MadridForest 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

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

ENVIRONMENTAL STATUS: INDIA VS SPAIN

INDIA SPAIN

GDP(per capita) $3751.99 $25467.15Gross 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%