The parliamentary hereditary monarchy of Spain (officially the Kingdom of Spain) with its capital Madrid is a state on the Iberian Peninsula in south-west Europe. The national territory covers 505,970 km² and is divided into 17 autonomous regions, most of which are identical to the wine-growing regions. There are borders with Portugal in the west and with France in the north-east, separated by the 430 km long mountain range of the Pyrenees (with the dwarf state of Andorra).
Spain also includes the large archipelagos of the Balearic Islands (with the main island of Mallorca) in the Mediterranean and the Canary Islands (including Tenerife and Lanzarote) in the Atlantic, as well as the two autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla on the North African coast as enclaves in or with a border with Morocco. Several islands located directly off the Moroccan coast also belong to Spain. Viticulture is practised in all regions of the country and also to a greater extent on the Balearic and Canary Islands.
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