Provinces of Spain by population

Name: Provinces of Spain by population, 2015
Creator: Instituto Nacional de Estadística
License: INE reuse terms (attribution required)

Madrid province had the highest population of 52 provinces in 2015, at 6.44 million. Ceuta province had the lowest, at 84,263. The median was 612,828 and the figure for Spain was 46.62 million. Source: the Instituto Nacional de Estadística.

Highest6,436,996Madrid province

Lowest84,263Ceuta province

Median612,82852 provinces

Spain46,624,382History

All provinces, 2015

CSV Chart (SVG)

persons. Source: INE. Retrieved 2026-10-07.

Full ranking

Rank	Provinces	2015 persons	Change on 2014
1	Madrid province	6,436,996	-0.3%
2	Barcelona province	5,523,922	0%
3	Valencia province	2,543,315	-0.2%
4	Seville province	1,941,480	0%
5	Alicante province	1,855,047	-0.7%
6	Málaga province	1,628,973	+0.4%
7	Murcia province	1,467,288	0%
8	Cádiz province	1,240,284	0%
9	Biscay province	1,148,775	-0.3%
10	A Coruña province	1,127,196	-0.5%
11	Balearic Islands province	1,104,479	+0.1%
12	Las Palmas province	1,098,406	-0.1%
13	Asturias province	1,051,229	-1%
14	Santa Cruz de Tenerife province	1,001,900	-0.3%
15	Zaragoza province	956,006	-0.4%
16	Pontevedra province	947,374	-0.4%
17	Granada province	917,297	-0.2%
18	Córdoba province	795,611	-0.5%
19	Tarragona province	795,101	-0.7%
20	Girona province	753,054	-0.4%
21	Gipuzkoa province	716,834	+0.2%
22	Almería province	701,211	-0.1%
23	Toledo province	693,371	-0.8%
24	Badajoz province	686,730	-0.6%
25	Jaén province	654,170	-0.7%
26	Navarre province	640,476	-0%
27	Cantabria province	585,179	-0.6%
28	Castellón province	582,327	-0.9%
29	Valladolid province	526,288	-0.5%
30	Huelva province	520,017	+0.2%
31	Ciudad Real province	513,713	-1.1%
32	León province	479,395	-1.1%
33	Lleida province	436,029	-0.5%
34	Cáceres province	406,267	-0.6%
35	Albacete province	394,580	-0.6%
36	Burgos province	364,002	-0.8%
37	Salamanca province	339,395	-0.9%
38	Lugo province	339,386	-1%
39	Álava province	323,648	+0.5%
40	Ourense province	318,391	-1.2%
41	La Rioja province	317,053	-0.6%
42	Guadalajara province	253,686	-0.7%
43	Huesca province	222,909	-0.9%
44	Cuenca province	203,841	-1.7%
45	Zamora province	183,436	-1.1%
46	Palencia province	166,035	-0.9%
47	Ávila province	164,925	-1.3%
48	Segovia province	157,570	-1.1%
49	Teruel province	138,932	-1%
50	Soria province	91,006	-1.3%
51	Melilla province	85,584	+1.3%
52	Ceuta province	84,263	-0.8%

Other periods

About this ranking

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.

For Denmark, Statistics Denmark counts the registered resident population on 1 January. Greenland and the Faroe Islands are excluded. The annual series selects the first-quarter reference date from FOLK1A. The World Bank series exists for every country, so use it (through compare) to rank countries on one basis.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the provinces are compared on one definition. Equal values share a rank.

How to cite

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.

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Questions

Which province has the highest population?

Madrid province, with 6.44 million in 2015, according to the Instituto Nacional de Estadística.

Which province has the lowest population?

Ceuta province, with 84,263 in 2015.

Where does this ranking come from?

Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Cifras oficiales de población de los municipios españoles: Revisión del Padrón municipal (tabla 29005). Retrieved 2026-10-07.