Seville (province)

Seville (Spanish: "Sevilla") is a province of southern Spain, in the western part of the autonomous community of Andalusia. It is bordered by the provinces of Málaga, Cádiz, Huelva, Bajadoz, and Córdoba.

Its area is 14,042 km². Its population is 1,758,720 (2002), of whom 40% live in the capital, Seville, and its population density is 125.25/km² It contains 105 municipalities.

See List of municipalities in Seville.

The province shares the Parque Nacional de Doñana with Huelva province.

Seville has a warm oceanic climate with an annual average temperature of 18.5 ºC and average rainfall of 650 liters/year. Winters are generally mild and summers very warm. The maximum temperatures in summer often surpass 40ºc. The locality of Écija is popularly known as the “Frying pan of Andalusia” for its torrid summers.

Seville is the 4th most populated province in Spain and the 1st in Andalusia with 1.868.343 inhabitants in 2008 (INE). The province of Seville generates 1.92% of the Spanish hotel movement.

The city of Seville is without doubt in the forefront of tourism in Andalusia, situated only behind Barcelona and Madrid on a national level. In the rest of the province, tourism is not sufficiently developed.