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Valencia Province

map`of Valencia ProvinceValencia (Spanish) or València (Valenciano) is a province in the centre of the Valencian Community, Spain.

It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea and the provinces of Alicante, Albacete, Cuenca, Teruel and Castellón. The northwestern side of the province is in the mountainous Sistema Ibérico area.

Part of its territory, the Rincón de Ademuz, is an exclave sandwiched between the provinces of Cuenca and Teruel.

Of the province's near 3 million people, one-third live in the capital, Valencia, which is also the capital of the autonomous community. There are 265 municipalities in the province, all of which have entries in this website.

The province is historically subdivided into comarques (plural of 'comarca'):

Traditionally Valencia City was considered to be part of "Horta de Valencia" but today it is treated as a comarca.

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