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Spaini
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SpainCountry

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Area:
505,992 km2
Type:
Other Languages:
French:
Espagne
German:
Spanien
Italian:
Spagna
Russian:
Испания
Simplified Chinese:
西班牙
Spanish:
España
Abkhaz:
Еспаниа
Achinese:
Seupanyo
Adyghe:
Испание
Afrikaans:
Spanje
Akan:
Spain
Albanian:
Spanja
Alemannic:
Spanien
Amharic:
እስፓንያ
Anglo-Saxon:
Spēonland
Arabic:
إسبانيا
Aragonese:
Espanya
Aramaic:
ܐܣܦܢܝܐ
Armenian:
Իսպանիա
Aromanian:
Ispania
Asturian:
España
Avaric:
Испан
Aymara:
Ispaña
Azeri:
İspaniya
Bambara:
Esipaɲi
Bashkir:
Испания
Basque:
Espainia
Bavarian:
Spanien
Belarusian:
Іспанія
Belarusian (Tarashkevitsa):
Гішпанія
Bengali:
স্পেন
Bishnupriya Manipuri:
স্পেন
Bislama:
Spain
Bosnian:
Španija
Breton:
Spagn
Buginese:
Spanyol
Bulgarian:
Испания
Burmese:
စပိန်နိုင်ငံ
Catalan:
Espanya
Cebuano:
Espanya
Central Bikol:
Espanya
Central Kurdish/Sorani:
ئیسپانیا
Chamorro:
España
Chavacano:
España
Chechen:
Испани
Cherokee:
ᎠᏂᏍᏆᏂᏱ
Cheyenne:
Spain
Church Slavic:
Їспанїꙗ
Chuvash:
Испани
Classical Chinese:
西班牙
Cornish:
Spayn
Corsican:
Spagna
Crimean Tatar (Latin):
İspaniya
Croatian:
Španjolska
Czech:
Španělsko
Danish:
Spanien
Doteli:
स्पेन
Dutch:
Spanje
Dutch Low Saxon:
Spanje
Dzongkha:
སིཔཱེན་
Egyptian Arabic:
اسبانيا
Emilian-Romagnol:
Spaggna
Erzya:
Испания Мастор
Esperanto:
Hispanio
Estonian:
Hispaania
Ewe:
Spain
Extremaduran:
España
Faroese:
Spania
Farsi/Persian:
اسپانیا
Fiji Hindi:
Spain
Finnish:
Espanja
Franco-Provençal:
Èspagne
Friulian:
Spagne
Fula:
Hispaanya
Gagauz:
İspaniya
Galician:
España
Gan:
西班牙
Georgian:
ესპანეთი
Gilaki:
ائسپانيا
Greek:
Ισπανία
Greenlandic:
Spania
Guarani:
Epáña
Gujarati:
સ્પેન
Haitian:
Espay
Hakka:
Sî-pân-ngà
Hausa:
Hispania
Hawaiian:
Sepania
Hebrew:
ספרד
Hindi:
स्पेन
Hungarian:
Spanyolország
Icelandic:
Spánn
Ido:
Hispania
Igbo:
Spain
Iloko:
Espania
Indonesian:
Spanyol
Ingush:
ХIиспани
Interlingua:
Espania
Interlingue:
Hispania
Inuktitut:
ᓯᐸᐃᓐ
Inupiaq:
Spaña
Irish Gaelic:
An Spáinn
Jamaican Patois:
Spien
Japanese:
スペイン
Javanese:
Sepanyol
Judaeo-Spanish:
Espanya
Kabardian:
Эспаниэ
Kabiye:
Ɛsɩpaañɩ
Kabyle:
Spenyul
Kalmyk:
Эспанмудин Нутуг
Kannada:
ಸ್ಪೇನ್
Kapampangan:
Espanya
Karachay-Balkar:
Испания
Karakalpak:
İspaniya
Kashmiri:
سٕپین
Kashubian:
Szpańskô
Kazakh (Cyrillic Script):
Испания
Khmer:
អេស្ប៉ាញ
Kikuyu:
Hispania
Kinyarwanda:
Esipanye
Komi:
Испания
Komi-Permyak:
Эспання
Kongo:
Espania
Konkani:
स्पेन
Korean:
스페인
Kurdish (Latin Script):
Spanya
Kyrgyz:
Испания
Lao:
ປະເທດແອສະປາຍ
Latgalian:
Spaneja
Latin:
Hispania
Latvian:
Spānija
Lezghian:
Испания
Ligurian:
Spagna
Limburgian:
Spanje
Lingala:
Espania
Lingua Franca Nova:
Espania
Lithuanian:
Ispanija
Livvi-Karelian:
Ispuanii
Lojban:
sangu'e
Lombard:
Spagna
Low Saxon/Low German:
Spanien
Lower Sorbian:
Špańska
Luganda:
Sipeyini
Luri:
إسپانيا
Luxembourgish:
Spuenien
Macedonian:
Шпанија
Maithili:
स्पेन
Malagasy:
Espaina
Malay:
Sepanyol
Malayalam:
സ്പെയിൻ
Maltese:
Spanja
Manx:
Yn Spaainey
Maori:
Pāniora
Marathi:
स्पेन
Mazanderani:
ایسپانیا
Meadow Mari:
Испаний
Min Dong Chinese:
Să̤-băng-ngà
Minangkabau:
Spanyol
Mingrelian:
ესპანეთი
Minnan / Hokkien-Taiwanese:
Se-pan-gâ
Mirandese:
Spanha
Moksha:
Испания
Mongolian:
Испани
Nahuatl:
Caxtillan
Narom:
Espangne
Nauruan:
Pain
Navajo:
Dibé Diníí Bikéyah
Neapolitan:
Spagna
Nepali:
स्पेन
Newar / Nepal Bhasa:
स्पेन
Norfolk:
Spain
Northern Frisian:
Spaanien
Northern Sami:
Spánia
Northern Sotho:
Spain
Norwegian:
Spania
Norwegian (Nynorsk):
Spania
Novial:
Spania
Occitan:
Espanha
Odia:
ସ୍ପେନ
Ossetian:
Испани
Pali:
स्पेन
Pangasinan:
Espanya
Papiamento:
Spaña
Pashto:
اسپانیا
Pennsylvania German:
Schpaani
Pfaelzisch:
Spanien
Picard:
Espanne
Piedmontese:
Spagna
Polish:
Hiszpania
Pontic Greek:
Ισπανία
Portuguese:
Espanha
Punjabi:
ਸਪੇਨ
Quechua:
Ispaña
Ripuarian:
Schpaanije
Romanian:
Spania
Romansh:
Spagna
Rundi:
Esipanye
Russia Buriat:
Испани
Rusyn:
Іспанія
Samoan:
Sepa­nia
Samogitian:
Ispanėjė
Sango:
Espânye
Sanskrit:
स्पेन्
Sardinian:
Ispagna
Saterland Frisian:
Spanien
Scots:
Spain
Scottish Gaelic:
An Spàinn
Serbian:
Шпанија
Serbo-Croatian:
Španija
Sesotho:
Spain
Shona:
Spain
Sicilian:
Spagna
Silesian:
Szpańijo
Sindhi:
اسپين
Sinhalese:
ස්පාඤ්ඤය
Slovak:
Španielsko
Slovenian:
Španija
Somali:
Isbania
South Azerbaijani:
ایسپانیا
Sranan Tongo:
Spanyorokondre
Sundanese:
Spanyol
Swahili:
Hispania
Swati:
Sipeyini
Swedish:
Spanien
Tagalog:
Espanya
Tahitian:
Paniora
Tajik (Cyrillic Script):
Испания
Tamil:
எசுப்பானியா
Tarantino:
Spagne
Tatar:
Испания
Telugu:
స్పెయిన్
Tetum:
España
Thai:
ประเทศสเปน
Tibetan (Standard):
ཞི་པན་ཡ།
Tigrinya:
ስፔን
Tok Pisin:
Spen
Tongan:
Sepeni
Traditional Chinese:
西班牙
Tsonga:
Spaniya
Tumbuka:
Spain
Turkish:
İspanya
Turkmen:
Ispaniýa
Twi:
Spain
Udmurt:
Испания
Ukrainian:
Іспанія
Upper Sorbian:
Španiska
Urdu:
ہسپانیہ
Uyghur:
ئىسپانىيە
Uzbek (Latin Script):
Ispaniya
Venetian:
Spagna
Veps:
Ispanii
Vietnamese:
Tây Ban Nha
Vlax Romani:
Spaniya
Volapük:
Spanyän
Võro:
Hispaania
Walloon:
Espagne
Waray:
Espanya
Welsh:
Sbaen
West Flemish:
Spanje
West Frisian:
Spanje
Western Punjabi:
سپین
Wolof:
Ispaañ
Wu Chinese:
西班牙
Xhosa:
ISpain
Yakut:
Испания
Yiddish:
שפאניע
Yoruba:
Spéìn
Zazaki:
İspanya
Zeelandic:
Spanje
Zhuang:
Sihbanhyaz
Zulu:
ISpeyini


Southern country of Europe with quite mountainous topography and wide-ranging geology.

Note: Books on regional mineralogies are listed on the pages of the respective regions (e.g. Aragón etc.).

Commodity List

This is a list of exploitable or exploited mineral commodities recorded from this region.


Mineral List

Mineral list contains entries from the region specified including sub-localities

1378 valid minerals. 38 (TL) - type locality of valid minerals. 128 erroneous literature entries.

Rock Types Recorded


Rock list contains entries from the region specified including sub-localities

Select Rock List Type

Alphabetical List Tree Diagram

'Adamellite'

Agglomerate

'Albite dolerite'

'Albite-granite'

'Albitite'

Alkali basalt

'Alkali gabbro'

'Alkali olivine basalt'

Alvikite

Amphibolite

Anatexite

Andesite

'Ankaramite'

'Anomalous IVA iron meteorite'

Anorthosite

'Aplite'

'Arkose'

'Augen gneiss'

'Banded gneiss'

Basalt

Basaltic glass

Basaltoid

Basanite

Bauxite

Benmoreite

'Bentonite'

'Biotite Monzogranite'

'Biotite gneiss'

'Biotite granite'

'Biotite melteigite'

Black shale

'Blueschist'

Bonded aggregate

Breccia

'Brecciated andesite'

'Calc-schist'

'Calc-silicate hornfels'

Calc-silicate rock

Calcite-carbonatite

Calcrete

Caliche

'Californite'

'Cancarixite'

'Carbonate stromatolite'

Carbonatite

Chert

Chloritolite

Chromitite

Clay

Clinopyroxenite

Coarse-grained ("plutonic") crystalline igneous rock

Conglomerate

'Coral limestone'

'Coronite'

Dacite

Diatomite

Diogenite meteorite

Diorite

'Dolerite'

Dolomite-mudstone

Dolostone

Dunite

Eclogite

'Endoskarn'

'Epidosite'

'Epidote amphibolite'

'Epidotite'

'Episyenite'

'Eucrite breccia meteorite'

Evaporite

'Exogreisen'

'Exoskarn'

'Felsic tuff'

'Felsite'

Fenite

Ferricrete

'Fine-grained metamafic-rock'

'Flint'

'Flood basalt'

Foidite

Gabbro

Gabbronorite

'Garnet pyroxenite'

'Geyserite'

Glassy igneous rock

Gneiss

Gossan

Granite

'Granitic gneiss'

Granitoid

Granodiorite

'Granophyric granite'

Granules

Granulite

'Graphite schist'

'Greenschist'

Greisen

Greywacke

Gypsum-mudstone

Gypsum-stone

H4 chondrite meteorite

H5 chondrite meteorite

H6 chondrite meteorite

Harzburgite

Hawaiite

'Hornblende diorite'

Hornblendite

Hornfels

Humic coal series

'Hyalo-enstatite-phlogopite lamproite'

'Hyalo-olivine-diopside-phlogopite lamproite'

Hyaloclastite

'Hydrothermal breccia'

IIE iron meteorite

'Ignimbritic tuff'

Ijolite

'Ijolite-urtite'

'Intrusive breccia'

Ironstone

'Itabirite'

'Jasper'

'Jaspillite'

'Kaolin'

'L/LL6 chondrite meteorite'

L5 chondrite meteorite

L6 chondrite meteorite

LL5 chondrite meteorite

Lamproite

Lamprophyre

Lapilli-tuff

Lapillistone

Laterite

'Leucite nephelinite'

Leucitite

'Leucocratic nephelinolite'

'Leucogranite'

Lherzolite

Lignite

Limestone

'Limestone breccia'

'Loam'

'Mafic volcanic rock'

'Malignite'

Marble

'Marl'

Marlstone

'Melanocratic nephelinite'

'Melanocratic nephelinolite'

Melilitite

'Menilite'

Mesosiderite-A1 meteorite

Meta-evaporite

Metacarbonatite

Metaconglomerate

Metagabbro

Metagranite

Metagreywacke

Metaharzburgite

Metamudstone

Metaperidotite

Metarhyolite

Metasedimentary rock

Metatexite

Metatuff

Metavolcanic rock

'Mica schist'

'Microbialite'

'Microdiorite'

'Microgabbro'

'Microgranite'

Migmatite

Monomict impact breccia

Monzodiorite

Monzogranite

Monzonite

Mudstone

Mugearite

'Muscovite granite'

'Muscovite-biotite granite'

Mylonite

'Nepheline basanite'

Nepheline-syenite

Nephelinite

Norite

'Nummulitenkalk'

Obsidian

Olistostrome

'Olivine basalt'

'Olivine nephelinite'

'Olivine-diopside-richterite-madupitic lamproite'

Omphacitite

Ooid-limestone

Ooze

'Ophite'

Orthogneiss

Orthopyroxenite

'Pahoehoe'

Paragneiss

'Pegmatite'

'Pegmatitic Ijolite'

'Pegmatitic granite'

'Pegmatoid'

'Pelitic hornfels'

'Peralkaline syenite'

Peridotite

'Perlite'

Phonolite

Phonolitic-tephrite

Phosphorite

Phyllite

Phyllonite

Picrite

Picrobasalt

'Pillow lava'

Polymict impact breccia

'Porphyrite'

'Porphyritic granite'

'Porphyritic trachyte'

'Porphyry'

Protomylonite

'Psammite'

Pumice

Pyroclastic sediment

Pyroclastic-rock

Pyroxenite

'Quartz schist'

Quartzite

'Radiolarian chert'

'Red bed'

Regolith

'Rhizolite'

Rhyodacite

Rhyolite

'Riebeckite-quartz-feldspar gneiss'

Rodingite

'S-type granite'

Sand

Sandstone

Saprolite

Schist

Scoria

Sediment

Sedimentary breccia

Sedimentary rock

Serpentine skarn

Serpentinite

Shale

Shonkinite

Silicocarbonatite

Siltstone

Skarn

Slag

Slate

Spessartite (lamprophyre)

Spilite

'Spinel harzburgite'

'Spinel lherzolite'

'Stockscheider'

'Stromatolite'

Subalkali basalt

Syenite

'Sylvinite'

Søvite

'Tectonite'

Tephrite

Tephritic-phonolite

'Teschenite'

'Theralite'

'Tholeiitic basalt'

'Till'

'Tourmalinite'

Trachyandesite

Trachybasalt

Trachyte

Travertine

Tuff

Tuffaceous-sandstone

Tuffite

Ultramylonite

'Ungrouped IAB iron meteorite'

Volcanic ash

Volcanic breccia

Websterite

Wehrlite

'Zebra stone'

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Wikipedia:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain
Wikidata ID:Q29
GeoNames ID:2510769

Localities in this Region


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