martes, 24 de marzo de 2009

Spain

Spain


It’s Oficial name is “Reino de España”.It was founded during the 15th century, joining the European Union in 1986.
It has an estimate population of 46,157,822 people, being the official language Spanish, with Aranese, Basque and Valencian (Catalan) as secondary or regional Languages.
Ethnic groups living in Spain are 88.7% Spanish, and 11.3% are Romanian, Moroccan, Colombian and Ecuadorian.
Spain has a Parliamentary democracy and Constitutional monarchy, wich mean they have a democracy and at the same time, they have a “king”.
Spain uses the Euro as currency, for belonging to the European Union.
An Euro equals $1.3866,on january 2009. Unemployment stood at 7.6% in October 2006, a rate that compares favorably to many other European countries, and which is a marked improvement over rates that exceeded 20% in the early 1990s.
They export machinery, motor vehicles; foodstuffs, pharmaceuticals, medicines, other consumer goods mostly to France 18.8%, Germany 10.8%, Portugal 8.6%, Italy 8.5%, UK 7.6%, US 4.2%, in 2007.
Its imports are machinery and equipment, fuels, chemicals, semifinished goods, foodstuffs, consumer goods, measuring and medical control instruments. Spaniards have a literacy rate of 99.0%, standing at place 17 worldwide, Cuba being number 1.
One interesting fact about Spain: Spain still uses the monarchy, but the "king" has no real purpose or responsability related to the functions of burocracy in the country.

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