A Coruña
A Coruña
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City hall Glass galleries | |
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Seal Coat of arms | |
| Nickname: A Cidade de Cristal (The Glass City) | |
| Motto: A Coruña, a cidade onde ninguén é forasteiro (A Coruña, the city where nobody is an outsider) | |
Interactive map of A Coruña | |
A Coruña Interactive map of A Coruña A Coruña A Coruña (Spain) | |
| Coordinates: 43°21′54″N 8°24′36″W / 43.365°N 8.410°W | |
| Country | Spain |
| Autonomous community | Galicia |
| Province | A Coruña |
| Comarca | A Coruña |
| Parishes | A Coruña, As Viñas, Elviña, Oza, Visma |
| Government | |
| • Type | Ayuntamiento |
| • Body | Concello da Coruña |
| • Mayor | Inés Rey (PSdeG-PSOE) |
| Area | |
| 38.64 km2 (14.92 sq mi) | |
| Highest elevation (Monte das Arcas) | 291 m (955 ft) |
| Lowest elevation | 0 m (0 ft) |
| Population (2024) | |
| 249,255 | |
| • Rank | 18th in Spain 2nd in Galicia |
| • Density | 6,451/km2 (16,710/sq mi) |
| • Metro | 452,114 |
| Demonyms | corunnan (en) coruñés, coruñesa (gl / es) |
| GDP | |
| • Metro | €25.231 billion (2020) |
| Time zone | CET (GMT +1) |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (GMT +2) |
| Postcode | 15001-15011 |
| Area codes | +34 981 and +34 881 |
| INE code | 15074 |
| Website | www |
A Coruña (Galician pronunciation: [ɐ koˈɾuɲɐ] ⓘ; in Spanish: La Coruña [la koˈɾuɲa] ⓘ; also informally called just Coruña; historical English: Corunna or The Groyne) is a city and municipality in Galicia, Spain. With a population of 249,255, it is the 2nd-largest city in Galicia behind Vigo. The city is the provincial capital of the province of A Coruña, 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.
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 the city with the tallest mean-height of buildings in Spain, also featuring a population density of 21,972 inhabitants per square kilometre (56,910/sq mi) of built land area.