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Comarques of Catalonia

This is a list of the comarques (counties, singular "comarca") of Catalonia.

The current division of Catalonia into comarques originates in an order of the the semi-autonomous Catalan government under the Spanish Republic in 1936. It was superseded after the 1939 victory of Francisco Franco's forces in the Spanish Civil War, but restored in 1987 by the re-established Generalitat de Catalunya, with minor revisions in 1988 (adding Pla de l'Estany, Pla d'Urgell and Alta Ribagorça) and 1990, when some borders were adjusted.

See also lists of municipalities for the Catalan provinces of Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, Tarragona.

Because the Catalan language has a relatively complex set of rules for the form of the definite article, and because (in Catalan) the names of comarques (except for Osona) typically take the definite article in any position except as the subject of a sentence, the following list indicates the appropriate form of the definite article for each comarca. Because Vall d'Aran is an Aranese-speaking area, it is often written as "era Vall d'Aran", using the Aranese definite article.

Comarca	Capital	Population	Area (km2)
l'Alt Camp	Valls	35,635	544.7
l'Alt EmpordÃÂÂ	Figueres	99,321	74
l'Alt Penedès	Vilafranca del Penedès	80,976	592.4
l'Alt Urgell	La Seu d'Urgell	19,105	1,446.9
l'Alta Ribagorça	Pont de Suert	3,477	426,8
l'Anoia	Igualada	93,529	866.6
el Bages	Manresa	155,112	1,295.2
el Baix Camp	Reus	145,675	695.3
el Baix Ebre	Tortosa	66,369	987.9
el Baix EmpordÃÂÂ	La Bisbal d'EmpordÃÂÂ	102,566	700.5
el Baix Llobregat	Sant Feliu de Llobregat	692,892	486.5
el Baix Penedès	El Vendrell	61,256	295.5
la Baixa Cerdanya	PuigcerdÃÂÂ	14,158	546.4
el Barcelonès	Barcelona	2,093,670	143.1
el BerguedÃÂÂ	Berga	37,995	1,182.5
la Conca de BarberÃÂÂ	Montblanc	18,766	648.9
el Garraf	Vilanova i la Geltrú	108,194	184.1
les Garrigues	Les Borges Blanques	18,999	799.7
la Garrotxa	Olot	47,747	734.2
el Gironès	Girona	136,543	575.5
el Maresme	Mataró	356,545	396.9
el MontsiÃÂÂ	Amposta	57,550	708.7
Noguera	Balaguer	34,744	1,733.0
Osona	Vic	129,543	1,263.8
el Pallars JussÃÂÂ	Tremp	12,057	1,290.0
el Pallars SobirÃÂÂ	Sort	6,174	1,355.2
el Pla de l'Estany	Banyoles	24.347	262.7
el Pla d'Urgell	Mollerussa	29,723	304.5
el Priorat	Falset	9,196	496.2
la Ribera d'Ebre	Mora d'Ebre	21,656	825.3
el Ripollès	Ripoll	25,744	958.7
la Segarra	Cervera	18,497	721.2
el SegriÃÂÂ	Lleida	166,090	1,393.7
la Selva	Santa Coloma de Farners	117,393	995.5
el Solsonès	Solsona	11,466	998.6
el Tarragonès	Tarragona	181,374	317.1
la Terra Alta	Gandesa	12,196	740.0
Urgell	Tàrrega	31,026	586.2
el Val d'Aran	Vielha	7,691	620.5
el Vallès Occidental	Sabadell, Terrassa	736,682	580.7
el Vallès Oriental	Granollers	321,431	851.9

Other historical comarques:

Comarca	Capital	Current status
el Rosselló (Roussillon)	Perpinyà (Perpignan)	Part of France
l'Alta Cerdanya	Fontromeu	Part of France
el Capcir	Angles (Les Angles)	Part of France
el Vallespir	Ceret	Part of France
el Conflent	Prada de Conflent (Prades)	Part of France
la Baixa Ribagorça	Benavarri (Benabarre)	Part of Aragon
la Llitera	Tamarit de Llitera (Tamarite de Litera)	Part of Aragon
el Baix Cinca	Fraga	Part of Aragon
la Matarranya	Vall-de-roures (Valderrobres)	Part of Aragon

See also

• Cerdanya
• Urgell

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