It is a nation constituted in a social and democratic state of law whose form of government is the parliamentary monarchy. It occupies most of the Iberian Peninsula in addition to other territories such as the archipelagos of the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea, the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean near Africa, as well as other territories such as Melilla and Ceuta in North Africa.

Founding member of the European Union, in territorial extension is the third largest country in Europe (not counting Russia). It shares land borders with France and with the Principality of Andorra to the north, with Portugal to the west and with the British colony of Gibraltar to the south. In its African territories, it shares land and sea borders with Morocco.

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