Northern Spain in the context of "Instituto Geográfico Nacional (Spain)"

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⭐ Core Definition: Northern Spain

Spain is a transcontinental country located in southwestern Europe and northern Africa, occupying about 84.6% of the Iberian Peninsula. Its territory includes a small exclave inside France called Llívia, the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea, the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean, and several territories on or near the North African coast, including the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla and the plazas de soberanía (Islas Chafarinas, Islas de Alhucemas, Isla Perejil, and Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera).

The Spanish mainland is bordered to the south and east almost entirely by the Mediterranean Sea (except for the small British territory of Gibraltar); to the north by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay; and to the west by the Atlantic Ocean and Portugal. With a land area of 504,782 square kilometres (194,897 mi) in the Iberian Peninsula, Spain is the largest country in Southern Europe, the second largest country in Western Europe (behind France), and the fourth largest country in the European continent (behind Russia, Ukraine, and France). It has an average altitude of 650 m.

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Northern Spain in the context of Green Spain

The Cantabrian Coast, often also Green Spain (Spanish: España Verde), is a lush natural region in Northern Spain, stretching along the Atlantic coast from the border with Portugal to the border with France. The region includes nearly all of Galicia, Asturias, and Cantabria, in addition to the northern parts of the Basque Country, as well as a small portion of Navarre.

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Northern Spain in the context of Blanket bog

Blanket bog or blanket mire, also known as featherbed bog, is an area of peatland, forming where there is a climate of high rainfall and a low level of evapotranspiration, allowing peat to develop not only in wet hollows but over large expanses of undulating ground. The blanketing of the ground with a variable depth of peat gives the habitat type its name.

The current distribution of blanket bogs globally remains unknown but they are found extensively throughout the Northern Hemisphere. Well-studied examples are found in Ireland and Scotland, but vast areas of North American tundra also qualify as blanket bogs. In Europe, the southernmost edge of range of this habitat has been recently mapped in the Cantabrian Mountains of northern Spain.

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Instituto Geográfico Nacional (Spain) → Spain → List of transcontinental countries → Europe → Africa → Iberian Peninsula → Exclave → Llívia → Balearic Islands → Mediterranean Sea → Canary Islands → Atlantic Ocean → North Africa → Autonomous cities of Spain → Ceuta → Melilla → Plazas de soberanía → Chafarinas Islands → Alhucemas Islands → Perejil Island → Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera → Gibraltar → France → Andorra → Bay of Biscay → Portugal → Southern Europe → Western Europe →