
Asturias
Asturias officially the Principality of Asturias, is an autonomous community in northwest Spain. It is coextensive with the province of Asturias and contains some of the territory that was... Wikipedia
- Country: Spain
- Formation: 722 (Kingdom of Asturias), 1230 (Comarca of the Asturias of Oviedo), 1833 (Province of Oviedo), 1982 (Autonomous Community)
- Statute of Autonomy: 1981
- Capital, Largest city: Oviedo, Gijón
- Type: Devolved government in a constitutional monarchy
- Body: Government of the Principality of Asturias
- President: Adrián Barbón (FSA–PSOE)
- Legislature: General Junta of the Principality of Asturias
- Congress of Deputies: 7 Deputies (of 350)
- Senate: 6 Senators (of 265)
- Area rank: 10th in Spain (2.1%)
- Population (2024): 1,009,599
- Rank: 14th in Spain (2.4%)
- Demonym(s): Asturian, asturiano -na (es, gl), asturianu -na (ast)
- Time zone: CET (UTC+1)
- Area code: +34 985
- ISO 3166 code: ES-AS (autonomous community), ES-O (province)
- HDI (2022): 0.906, very high · 10th
- Languages: Asturian, Galician, Spanish
- Patron saint: Our Lady of Covadonga
- Website: asturias.es
- Data source: DuckDuckGo