When you think of the word Hispanic what comes to mind perhaps you might think beauty elegance or perhaps maybe
sexiness romance and dance today year on FTD facts
We are diving into a country with a unique origin and story
The country of Spain a place with much history that has led to the discovery of the new world
And much more a country where Latin got its origins welcome to the beautiful and elegant country of Spain
Hey, everybody what's going on Dave waffle here and welcome to FTD facts now for this episode
Yes, we're talking about Spain, and I gotta say. I'm really
excited for it because
Well first of all this is one that people have recommended way back in the past for us to do
And we just never got around to it, but consider when we're doing European countries
We figured now is the proper time to do this and of course for me
I'm just really excited to talk about this not because everybody recommended it, but I just really love Spain
I think it's a really beautiful country
And it's got beautiful people in it now before you get in this video letting you guys know about grammar
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I want to know what is your favorite favorite thing about Spain so far if you guys don't know much about Spain well guess what?
Let's get into it and let's start learning about this great country so first thing
We got to mention that its proper name is actually the kingdom of Spain now the thing about Spain is it is pretty big when?
it comes to its population and its size when you compare it to the rest of the European countries for example Spain has a
population estimate of over
46 million four hundred sixty-eight thousand one hundred people and it ranks at the thirtieth largest country in the entire world
Now if you were to combine all these people and stretch it over the land
They have a density of 92 people per square kilometer
But how big is Spain like I said it is one of the biggest countries in all of Europe well for its land size it
Sits at roughly 51st in the world equaling
505 thousand nine hundred ninety kilometers square
And if you were to compare this to the rest of the European continent it sits at fourth largest however
It is second largest in Western Europe, but it is the largest in southern
but this is the thing when it comes to its land Spain is what you like to call a
Transcontinental country meaning it has lands in other parts of the world instead of just its mainland however with that in mind
It's interesting to know that while we are talking about Spain during this time the country is recently dealing with a referendum
Known as the Catalonian independence
Now although the region of Catalonia is really pagan for its own independence in the modern world this kind of happened back in
2006 but throughout history it's always kind of fought for its independence
and one of the reasons for this is because it was actually an independent region until about
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and when it comes to Catalonia it's pretty much already its own self governed region with its own president police force government and
broadcaster and one of the problems right now is Spain wants to control its police force because currently it controls the military force and
foreign affairs for Catalonia now speaking of these regions
There is approximately 18 divisions within the country however. They do have provinces and including islands it has approximately
52 of them although somewhere I read strangely that Spain has 50 provinces
So I wasn't quite sure how that translated maybe one place
I read had an incorrect or maybe there was an update or something like that in the last couple of years
I don't know but from what I've mostly read it has 52
provinces but jumping back to the Catalonia issue
Catalonia the region has four of these provinces
And they are Lolita Girona Tarragona and Barcelona, but out of these provinces
let's take a look at which ones are the biggest when it comes to population that one has to go to Madrid because as of
2013 they have over a population size of six point four nine five million people and as for land size well
That's got to go to bed a house with a land equaling twenty one thousand seven hundred and sixty six
Kilometres square now when we're talking about the land of Spain we cannot forget about talking about the coast
Because the coastlines in all of Spain are so famous
They are just amazingly beautiful and throughout its coastline of over one thousand six hundred and sixty kilometers
They have small coastline towns. Which are world renowned such as places like Barcelona, San Sebastian, Ibiza
Valencia Marbella and many more and as a matter of fact these towns are so popular that a lot of musicians have put the names
Of these towns in their songs for example David Bowie talked about Ibiza in life on Mars
I think that's the name of the song
But let's talk about money of Spain well first of all they actually use the euro they adopted this form of currency on
January 1st of 2002
But however breaking down its economy when it comes to its nominal gross domestic product
It ranks at 12th in the world with a total of 1.2 3 2 trillion dollars with a per capita of 20
6643 ranking it's GDP per capita at 30th in the world now with that in mind one downside to
Spain and like I say here on if TV facts we talk about the good and the bad because it's all one big broad story
Is that Spain has the largest wealth gap in all the European countries?
However when it does come to money the country is a very balanced amount of imports versus exports and although they focused more on
importing with 299 billion dollars in imports ranking 15th in the world the exports actually ranked 17th in the world equaling
275 billion dollars
So how is this broken down?
How do they make so much money in imports and exports?
For exports about 13% of this is cars with
21 percent of them going to Germany 18 percent of cars going to France and 13 percent going to the UK as well as other
Countries and of course with cars being exported you can't forget about vehicle parts that comes in second with 3.6
Percent but as for imports oddly enough cars come in as 6.1. Percent and oddly enough
I found it strange that 32 percent of those cars are coming from Germany
So it's kind of weird that they're just trading cars back and forth to me
It seems probably more logical that you would just sell the cars in your own country
But I don't know however coming in second 6.3
Percent of its imports is crude petroleum with 14 12 and 11 percent coming from Nigeria Mexico and Saudi Arabia
However jumping back to exports one thing that this country is famous for is olive oil as matter of fact
It's been recorded that the country has provided the world with over half of the olive oil demands it produces a minimum of 1.5
million tonnes of the stuff a year and in
2016 the amount of olive oil came in to equal three point four nine billion dollars in revenue as well
Let's not forget that in Spain. They are very popular for their wines
Mm-hmm because in the same year they exported about two point four nine billion dollars in bottles of the alcoholic grape
So one other thing that's really fascinating about Spain
And this is probably one of the best things that I love about it is it has a lot of
UNESCO zones as a matter of fact out of most of the countries that we've talked about it
Just defeats all the other countries not to say that that's any better
I just love the UNESCO zone and world preservation sort of thing, but this country has a lot of them currently in
2017 it has 40 cultural locations for natural and - mixed which makes it have
46
UNESCO zones
That's insane and what makes this country more unique is when in 1984 when it got its first inscribed locations
They actually had five of them, but overall when it comes to them having the most UNESCO locations
They are ranked at third highest in the world. That's one thing
I guess I love about the Spanish is that they are down for preserving their cultural history
And one we should definitely mention is the archeological site of a topeka now?
This is a cave system where some of the remains of the oldest human beings to be ever
discovered in Europe were found the bones date back to over 1 million years ago with these homonym fossils being found during a
1964 excavation with
archaeologist
Francisco jour de Serta and it's really quite an amazing thing guys to be able to look back in history and see where we came
From and I mean like yeah over a million years ago
That's pretty nuts
Now Spain is also a country that definitely has some interesting original and amazing features about it and one major point when it comes to
This is that it has the world's oldest restaurant the restaurant
Bohtan which is located in Madrid Spain has been running since
1725 and of course other restaurants may wish to claim this title but it is so famous that even Ernest 'we
Wrote about the conch, and hello asado dish
Which is basically roasted suckling pig and since then or maybe even?
Beforehand it became its most signature dish so one thing that we have not talked about yet when it comes to spain
Yeah, sure
We've talked about past cultural things
But we haven't talked about present cultural festivities
Because in spain they have a festival called la tomatina, and it is the craziest
Festival i've ever seen okay. Maybe not the craziest, but it is definitely unique. I've never seen this anywhere in the world it is
basically a giant tomato food fight festival that is
Awesome since 1945 this festival happens once a year in the Valencia town known as banal
And it happens on the last wednesday of every single August
and I love that because August is my birthday month and apparently this all started because
During a parade way back in the day some man fell from his viewing point and he got angry and started throwing Tomatoes
Making the whole town erupt in a vegetable throwing battle
I gotta say I've never been there
But I really want to check this place out and go to this festival because it just sounds like a lot of fun
But either way pretty interesting stuff about Spain
What a beautiful and amazing country however that wraps up this episode, but keep in mind guys
We might have forgotten much about this country, so if you guys know some facts that we missed
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but this is the country of Spain a country that is just rich with history and
Pride for its history where the people of this great
Nations stand out in their own unique way a place that we have only scratched the surface when we talk about its great
accomplishments a country of love Sport and growth
This is the people and culture and country of Spain for when we hear of them
And the name we are reminded that beauty chivalry and good times is just
around the corner
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