Jaén (province)

the province Jaén (Spanish Provincia de Jaén) is one of the eight provinces of the autonomous region Andalusien in south Spain. The capital is Jaén.

It lies in the northeast Andalusiens and borders on thoselikewise Andalusian provinces Córdoba and Granada as well as to the provinces Ciudad material and Albacete.

The province extends over 13.484 km ², their number of inhabitants amounts to 660.284 persons (2005), on whom approximately 18% in the capital live. The population density amounts to 49 inhabitants per km ².

Although Jaén regards routistic one of the fewer well-known provinces of Spain is, the province has to offer some interesting objects of interest: It possesses four nature parks: the Sierra de Andújar, Despeñaperros, who read Sierras de Cazorla, Segura y much-read (it has the size of the region La Rioja) and the Sierra Mágina as well as further protected areas. In addition are in Jaén two important Renaissance - cities, i.e. Úbeda and Baeza.

Likewise annual chess tightens - tournament in Linares regularly the world-best players.

The province Jaén is the world largestProducer of olive oil.

largest ones of places

(conditions: 1. January 2005)

Municipality	inhabitant
Jaén	116,540
Linares	60,807
Andújar	38,539
Úbeda	33,993
Martos	23,804
Alcalá la material	22,038
Bailén	18,202
Baeza	15,880
La Carolina	15,545
Torre del Campo	13,961
Torredonjimeno	13,957
Jódar	12,153
Alcaudete	11,143
Villacarrillo	10,902
Mancha material	10,187

see also: List of the municipalities in the province Jaén

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