Provinces of Spain by population

Name: Provinces of Spain by population, 2020
Creator: Instituto Nacional de Estadística
License: INE reuse terms (attribution required)

Madrid province had the highest population of 52 provinces in 2020, at 6.78 million. Ceuta province had the lowest, at 84,202. The median was 608,486 and the figure for Spain was 47.45 million. Source: the Instituto Nacional de Estadística.

Highest6,779,888Madrid province

Lowest84,202Ceuta province

Median608,48652 provinces

Spain47,450,795History

All provinces, 2020

CSV Chart (SVG)

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

Full ranking

Rank	Provinces	2020 persons	Change on 2019
1	Madrid province	6,779,888	+1.7%
2	Barcelona province	5,743,402	+1.4%
3	Valencia province	2,591,875	+1%
4	Seville province	1,950,219	+0.4%
5	Alicante province	1,879,888	+1.1%
6	Málaga province	1,685,920	+1.5%
7	Murcia province	1,511,251	+1.2%
8	Cádiz province	1,244,049	+0.3%
9	Balearic Islands province	1,171,543	+1.9%
10	Biscay province	1,159,443	+0.6%
11	Las Palmas province	1,131,065	+1%
12	A Coruña province	1,121,815	+0.2%
13	Santa Cruz de Tenerife province	1,044,887	+1.2%
14	Asturias province	1,018,784	-0.4%
15	Zaragoza province	972,528	+0.8%
16	Pontevedra province	945,408	+0.3%
17	Granada province	919,168	+0.5%
18	Tarragona province	816,772	+1.5%
19	Girona province	781,788	+1.4%
20	Córdoba province	781,451	-0.2%
21	Almería province	727,945	+1.6%
22	Gipuzkoa province	727,121	+0.5%
23	Toledo province	703,772	+1.3%
24	Badajoz province	672,137	-0.2%
25	Navarre province	661,197	+1.1%
26	Jaén province	631,381	-0.3%
27	Castellón province	585,590	+1%
28	Cantabria province	582,905	+0.3%
29	Huelva province	524,278	+0.5%
30	Valladolid province	520,649	+0.2%
31	Ciudad Real province	495,045	-0.1%
32	León province	456,439	-0.8%
33	Lleida province	438,517	+0.8%
34	Cáceres province	391,850	-0.6%
35	Albacete province	388,270	0%
36	Burgos province	357,650	+0.2%
37	Álava province	333,940	+0.7%
38	Salamanca province	329,245	-0.3%
39	Lugo province	327,946	-0.5%
40	La Rioja province	319,914	+1%
41	Ourense province	306,650	-0.3%
42	Guadalajara province	261,995	+1.6%
43	Huesca province	222,687	+1%
44	Cuenca province	196,139	-0.1%
45	Zamora province	170,588	-1.1%
46	Palencia province	160,321	-0.4%
47	Ávila province	157,664	0%
48	Segovia province	153,478	+0.2%
49	Teruel province	134,176	0%
50	Soria province	88,884	+0.3%
51	Melilla province	87,076	+0.7%
52	Ceuta province	84,202	-0.7%

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 6.78 million in 2020, according to the Instituto Nacional de Estadística.

Which province has the lowest population?

Ceuta province, with 84,202 in 2020.

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.