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León province
León province

León (Llión in Asturian-leonese language) is a province of northwestern Spain, in the northwestern part of the autonomous community of Castile and León. The historic leonese country is integrated by the provinces of León/Llión, Zamora and Salamanca . It is bordered by the provinces of Zamora, Ourense, Lugo, Asturias, Cantabria, Palencia, and Valladolid.

The Palacio de los Guzmanes, the provincial parliament (Diputación) in the capital
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The Palacio de los Guzmanes, the provincial parliament (Diputación) in the capital
About one quarter of its population of 496,655 (2002) live in the capital, León.

See List of municipalities in León.

There are Roman Catholic cathedrals at León and Astorga.

Regions:

There is a movement that believes that León should become its own autonomous community.

The province shares the Parque Nacional Picos de Europa (in the Picos de Europa mountain range) with Cantabria and Asturias.

See Kingdom of León.

Provinces of Spain

Álava / Araba | Albacete | Alicante / Alacant | Almería | Asturias | Ávila | Badajoz | Islas Baleares / Illes Balears | Barcelona | Burgos | Cáceres | Cádiz | Cantabria | Castellón / Castelló | Ceuta | Ciudad Real | Córdoba | A Coruña | Cuenca | Gerona / Girona | Granada | Guadalajara | Guipúzcoa / Gipuzkoa | Huelva | Huesca | Jaén | León | Lérida / Lleida | Lugo | Madrid | Málaga | Melilla | Murcia | Navarra / Nafarroa | Ourense | Palencia | Las Palmas | Pontevedra | La Rioja | Salamanca | Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Segovia | Sevilla | Soria | Tarragona | Teruel | Toledo | Valencia / València | Valladolid | Vizcaya / Bizkaia | Zamora | Zaragoza

 


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