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Random city in Spain

Press once and you get a Spanish town or city, its autonomous community and about how many people live there. Keep the draw to one region, to cities above 100,000 or to small towns, and take up to ten at a time.

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    A drawn place stays out until you press Start over. Switched off, any place can come up again, but never twice in the same draw.

    734 places in the draw

    City data: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), names in each language from Wikidata. Populations are GeoNames figures and can be a few years old.

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    Random city generator Random city in Spain

    From Madrid to Nazaret: 734 Spanish places

    The Spain list has every place GeoNames records with at least 10,000 inhabitants, 734 in total, spread over the 17 autonomous communities plus Ceuta and Melilla. Only Madrid and Barcelona go past a million. 64 places are above 100,000, and 341, almost half, have fewer than 20,000, so expect names like Bembibre or Caldas de Reis as often as Seville.

    The south and the east hold most of it. Andalusia alone brings 151 places, Catalonia 118 and the Valencian Community 96, while La Rioja has four and Navarre nine. Because a small town counts exactly as much as a capital, a draw from the whole country lands in Andalusia about one time in five. Set Region to the Canary Islands (49 places) or the Balearics (21) if you are planning a trip to the islands.

    Names appear as they are written locally, so A Coruña, Donostia-San Sebastián and Vitoria-Gasteiz keep their Galician and Basque forms.

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    How to get a random Spanish town

    1. Press Draw a city. You see the town, its community and a rounded population.
    2. In Filters, choose one community or a size. The button shows how many places remain.
    3. Need a list, say for a Spanish class where everyone presents a town? Turn How many up to ten and copy the result from History.

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    Questions about random cities in Spain

    Are the Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla included?

    Yes. Each island group is its own region in the menu, and Ceuta and Melilla appear once each. A draw from all of Spain can land in Las Palmas as easily as in Burgos.

    Why do I get so many small towns?

    Because Spain has far more of them. Fewer than one place in eleven passes 100,000. Choose big cities under Filters and you only get those 64.

    How current are the populations?

    They come from GeoNames and can be several years old; some count the town, others the whole municipality. They are good for telling a village from a city, not for official use, where the INE is the source.

    Is there a version in Spanish?

    Yes, the Spanish edition of this site has its own page for random cities in Spain, with the same list and Spanish names for the regions. Use the language menu to switch.

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