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Valencia (province)

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Valencia province.
Valencia province.

Valencia (Castilian Spanish: Valencia /ba'lenθja/; Valencian/Catalan: València /va'łεnsia/) is a province of Spain, in the central part of the Land of Valencia.

It is bordered by the provinces of Alicante, Albacete, Cuenca, Castellón, and the Mediterranean Sea. Part of its territory, the Rincón de Ademuz, is an exclave sandwiched between the provinces of Cuenca and Teruel.

Of the province's 2,267,503 people, one-third live in the capital, Valencia, which is also the capital of the autonomous community. There are 265 municipalities in the province. See List of municipalities in Valencia.

The province is historically subdivided in comarcas/comarques (shires):

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ast:Provincia de Valencia ca:Província de València cs:Provincia de Valencia de:Valencia (Provinz) es:Provincia de Valencia eu:Valentziako probintzia fr:Province de Valence it:Provincia di Valencia lb:Provënz Valencia nl:Valencia (provincie) ja:バレンシア県 pt:Província de Valência ru:Валенсия (провинция) fi:Valencia (maakunta) tl:Lalawigan ng València zh:巴倫西亞省

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