Practice question · Numerical answer
How many autonomous communities does Spain have?
Hints
- Plus two autonomous cities.
- Seventeen.
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17
Why
Seventeen, plus the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla. The number is an outcome rather than a design: it emerged from which territories initiated the process and how they grouped themselves, which is why the map is not the one a constitutional convention would have drawn.
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