Provinces of Spain by population

Name: Provinces of Spain by population, 2019
Creator: Instituto Nacional de Estadística
License: INE reuse terms (attribution required)

Madrid province had the highest population of 52 provinces in 2019, at 6.66 million. Ceuta province had the lowest, at 84,777. The median was 607,321 and the figure for Spain was 47.03 million. Source: the Instituto Nacional de Estadística.

Highest6,663,394Madrid province

Lowest84,777Ceuta province

Median607,32152 provinces

Spain47,026,208History

All provinces, 2019

CSV Chart (SVG)

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

Full ranking

Rank	Provinces	2019 persons	Change on 2018
1	Madrid province	6,663,394	+1.3%
2	Barcelona province	5,664,579	+1%
3	Valencia province	2,565,124	+0.7%
4	Seville province	1,942,389	+0.1%
5	Alicante province	1,858,683	+1.1%
6	Málaga province	1,661,785	+1.3%
7	Murcia province	1,493,898	+1%
8	Cádiz province	1,240,155	+0.1%
9	Biscay province	1,152,651	+0.3%
10	Balearic Islands province	1,149,460	+1.8%
11	Las Palmas province	1,120,406	+1%
12	A Coruña province	1,119,596	0%
13	Santa Cruz de Tenerife province	1,032,983	+1.4%
14	Asturias province	1,022,800	-0.5%
15	Zaragoza province	964,693	+1%
16	Pontevedra province	942,665	+0.1%
17	Granada province	914,678	+0.3%
18	Tarragona province	804,664	+1.1%
19	Córdoba province	782,979	-0.3%
20	Girona province	771,044	+1.2%
21	Gipuzkoa province	723,576	+0.4%
22	Almería province	716,820	+1.1%
23	Toledo province	694,844	+1.1%
24	Badajoz province	673,559	-0.4%
25	Navarre province	654,214	+1%
26	Jaén province	633,564	-0.7%
27	Cantabria province	581,078	+0.1%
28	Castellón province	579,962	+0.5%
29	Huelva province	521,870	+0.4%
30	Valladolid province	519,546	-0.1%
31	Ciudad Real province	495,761	-0.7%
32	León province	460,001	-0.8%
33	Lleida province	434,930	+0.5%
34	Cáceres province	394,151	-0.6%
35	Albacete province	388,167	-0.2%
36	Burgos province	356,958	-0%
37	Álava province	331,549	+0.8%
38	Salamanca province	330,119	-0.4%
39	Lugo province	329,587	-0.5%
40	La Rioja province	316,798	+0.4%
41	Ourense province	307,651	-0.5%
42	Guadalajara province	257,762	+1.4%
43	Huesca province	220,461	+0.5%
44	Cuenca province	196,329	-0.5%
45	Zamora province	172,539	-1.2%
46	Palencia province	160,980	-0.7%
47	Ávila province	157,640	-0.5%
48	Segovia province	153,129	-0.1%
49	Teruel province	134,137	-0.3%
50	Soria province	88,636	0%
51	Melilla province	86,487	+0.1%
52	Ceuta province	84,777	-0.4%

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 6.66 million in 2019, according to the Instituto Nacional de Estadística.

Which province has the lowest population?

Ceuta province, with 84,777 in 2019.

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.