# Provinces of Spain by population, 2025

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

- Indicator id: `population`
- Unit: persons
- Definition: Resident population. Spain and the EU: 1 January, with Spanish figures from the official municipal register (Padrón). United States: Census Bureau population estimates for 1 July. Other countries and the World: World Bank mid-year estimates, which count all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship.
- Source: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Cifras oficiales de población de los municipios españoles: Revisión del Padrón municipal (tabla 29005) (https://www.ine.es/jaxiT3/Tabla.htm?t=29005)
- Retrieved: 2026-10-07
- Citation: Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE). Cifras oficiales de población de los municipios españoles: Revisión del Padrón municipal (tabla 29005). https://www.ine.es/jaxiT3/Tabla.htm?t=29005. Retrieved 2026-10-07.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/population/spain-provinces
- CSV: https://invokely.ai/download/rankings/population/spain-provinces.csv

| Rank | Place | persons |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Madrid province | 7,137,031 |
| 2 | Barcelona province | 5,983,325 |
| 3 | Valencia province | 2,758,633 |
| 4 | Alicante province | 2,030,037 |
| 5 | Seville province | 1,976,624 |
| 6 | Málaga province | 1,791,092 |
| 7 | Murcia province | 1,589,138 |
| 8 | Cádiz province | 1,257,041 |
| 9 | Balearic Islands province | 1,237,480 |
| 10 | Las Palmas province | 1,167,555 |
| 11 | Biscay province | 1,166,816 |
| 12 | A Coruña province | 1,135,612 |
| 13 | Santa Cruz de Tenerife province | 1,082,421 |
| 14 | Asturias province | 1,013,529 |
| 15 | Zaragoza province | 991,991 |
| 16 | Pontevedra province | 946,225 |
| 17 | Granada province | 942,618 |
| 18 | Tarragona province | 874,808 |
| 19 | Girona province | 832,026 |
| 20 | Almería province | 773,577 |
| 21 | Córdoba province | 772,153 |
| 22 | Toledo province | 750,815 |
| 23 | Gipuzkoa province | 733,365 |
| 24 | Navarre province | 683,500 |
| 25 | Badajoz province | 663,886 |
| 26 | Castellón province | 627,173 |
| 27 | Jaén province | 617,604 |
| 28 | Cantabria province | 593,964 |
| 29 | Huelva province | 535,703 |
| 30 | Valladolid province | 528,841 |
| 31 | Ciudad Real province | 494,407 |
| 32 | Lleida province | 456,106 |
| 33 | León province | 446,771 |
| 34 | Albacete province | 390,406 |
| 35 | Cáceres province | 387,752 |
| 36 | Burgos province | 361,556 |
| 37 | Álava province | 342,161 |
| 38 | Salamanca province | 328,779 |
| 39 | La Rioja province | 327,286 |
| 40 | Lugo province | 325,759 |
| 41 | Ourense province | 305,573 |
| 42 | Guadalajara province | 285,390 |
| 43 | Huesca province | 230,624 |
| 44 | Cuenca province | 198,216 |
| 45 | Zamora province | 165,275 |
| 46 | Ávila province | 159,887 |
| 47 | Palencia province | 158,687 |
| 48 | Segovia province | 158,470 |
| 49 | Teruel province | 136,197 |
| 50 | Soria province | 90,234 |
| 51 | Melilla province | 86,780 |
| 52 | Ceuta province | 83,595 |