A Coruña
A Coruña (Galician: [ɐ koˈɾuɲɐ] (listen); Spanish: La Coruña [la koˈɾuɲa]; historical English: Corunna or The Groyne) is a city and municipality of Galicia, Spain. A Coruña is the most populated city in Galicia and the second most populated municipality in the autonomous community and seventeenth overall in the country. The city is the provincial capital of the province of the same name, having also served as political capital of the Kingdom of Galicia from the 16th to the 19th centuries, and as a regional administrative centre between 1833 and 1982, before being replaced by Santiago de Compostela. A Coruña is located on a promontory in the Golfo Ártabro, a large gulf on the Atlantic Ocean. It is the main industrial and financial centre of northern Galicia, and holds the headquarters of the Universidade da Coruña. A Coruña is a packed city, the Spanish city featuring the tallest mean-height of buildings, also featuring a population density of 21,972 inhabitants per square km of built land area.
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Rúa Maxistrado Manuel Artime, A Coruña Juan Flórez
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N 43.365 ° | E -8.41 ° |
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Rúa Maxistrado Manuel Artime 16
15004 A Coruña, Juan Flórez
Galicia, Spain
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