A Coruña

<p>A Coruña  is a city and <a href="/facts/Municipality/S0bUz6jW">municipality</a> in <a href="/facts/Galicia_(Spain)/9gQqlueg">Galicia</a>, Spain. It is Galicia's second largest city, behind <a href="/facts/Vigo/jXJrknvE">Vigo</a>. The city is the provincial capital of the province of <a href="/facts/A_Coru%25C3%25B1a_(province)/IDdhFNQR">A Coruña</a>, having also served as political capital of the <a href="/facts/Kingdom_of_Galicia/prll1FbQ">Kingdom of Galicia</a> from the 16th to the 19th centuries, and as a regional administrative centre between 1833 and 1982.
</p><p>A Coruña is located on a <a href="/facts/Promontory/b5SeWu2Y">promontory</a> in the <a href="/facts/Golfo_%25C3%2581rtabro/jqFRPAzb">Golfo Ártabro</a>, a large gulf on the Atlantic Ocean. It is the main industrial and <a href="/facts/Financial/fLh1GgN8">financial</a> centre of northern Galicia, and holds the headquarters of the <a href="/facts/Universidade_da_Coru%25C3%25B1a/ulbDLqNT">Universidade da Coruña</a>. A Coruña is the Spanish city featuring the tallest mean-height of buildings, also featuring a population density of 21,972 inhabitants per square kilometre (56,910/sq mi) of built land area.
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A Coruña