# Provinces of Spain by active companies, 2025

All 52 values come from Instituto Nacional de Estadística for 2025, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `active_companies`
- Unit: count
- Definition: Active companies on 1 January (INE Central Business Directory, DIRCE).
- Source: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Directorio central de empresas: empresas activas por provincia (tabla 302) (https://www.ine.es/jaxiT3/Tabla.htm?t=302)
- Retrieved: 2026-10-07
- Citation: Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE). Directorio central de empresas: empresas activas por provincia (tabla 302). https://www.ine.es/jaxiT3/Tabla.htm?t=302. Retrieved 2026-10-07.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/active-companies/spain-provinces
- CSV: https://invokely.ai/download/rankings/active-companies/spain-provinces.csv

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Madrid province | 526,588 |
| 2 | Barcelona province | 458,826 |
| 3 | Valencia province | 186,970 |
| 4 | Alicante province | 145,106 |
| 5 | Málaga province | 142,401 |
| 6 | Seville province | 121,706 |
| 7 | Balearic Islands province | 103,319 |
| 8 | Murcia province | 93,956 |
| 9 | A Coruña province | 77,760 |
| 10 | Las Palmas province | 74,168 |
| 11 | Santa Cruz de Tenerife province | 71,833 |
| 12 | Biscay province | 71,086 |
| 13 | Pontevedra province | 65,757 |
| 14 | Girona province | 65,302 |
| 15 | Cádiz province | 64,838 |
| 16 | Asturias province | 64,608 |
| 17 | Granada province | 61,067 |
| 18 | Zaragoza province | 60,739 |
| 19 | Tarragona province | 53,758 |
| 20 | Córdoba province | 46,820 |
| 21 | Gipuzkoa province | 46,310 |
| 22 | Almería province | 44,199 |
| 23 | Toledo province | 43,989 |
| 24 | Navarre province | 42,375 |
| 25 | Badajoz province | 40,074 |
| 26 | Castellón province | 40,045 |
| 27 | Cantabria province | 38,340 |
| 28 | Jaén province | 33,611 |
| 29 | Lleida province | 32,176 |
| 30 | Valladolid province | 31,317 |
| 31 | Ciudad Real province | 28,549 |
| 32 | León province | 27,811 |
| 33 | Huelva province | 25,820 |
| 34 | Albacete province | 24,853 |
| 35 | Cáceres province | 24,181 |
| 36 | Burgos province | 23,976 |
| 37 | Lugo province | 22,564 |
| 38 | La Rioja province | 21,481 |
| 39 | Ourense province | 20,870 |
| 40 | Salamanca province | 20,569 |
| 41 | Álava province | 17,557 |
| 42 | Huesca province | 15,627 |
| 43 | Guadalajara province | 13,670 |
| 44 | Cuenca province | 12,972 |
| 45 | Segovia province | 10,457 |
| 46 | Zamora province | 10,440 |
| 47 | Ávila province | 9,648 |
| 48 | Palencia province | 8,899 |
| 49 | Teruel province | 8,642 |
| 50 | Soria province | 5,562 |
| 51 | Melilla province | 4,396 |
| 52 | Ceuta province | 3,236 |