Practice question · Numerical answer
Approximately how many municipalities does Spain have, to the nearest hundred?
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- More than eight thousand.
- About 8,100.
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8100 (answers within ±300 count)
Why
About 8,100, an unusually fragmented map for a country of Spain's population. More than four fifths have fewer than 5,000 inhabitants, and that single distributional fact drives the provincial councils, the recurring merger proposals and most of the competence problems in the lesson.
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