Toledo is a

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of central

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, in the western part of the

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of Castile–La Mancha. It is bordered by the provinces of

Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and ...

, Cuenca,

Ciudad Real Ciudad Real (, ; en, "Royal City") is a municipality of Spain located in the autonomous community of Castile–La Mancha, capital of the province of Ciudad Real. It is the 5th most populated municipality in the region. History It was founde ...

Badajoz Badajoz (; formerly written ''Badajos'' in English) is the capital of the Province of Badajoz in the autonomous community of Extremadura, Spain. It is situated close to the Portuguese border, on the left bank of the river Guadiana. The population ...

, Cáceres, and

Ávila Ávila (, , ) is a city of Spain located in the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is the capital and most populated municipality of the Province of Ávila. It lies on the right bank of the Adaja river. Located more than 1,130 m abov ...

. Its capital is the city of Toledo.

Demography

Of the province's 711,228 people (2012), only about 1/9 live in the capital, Toledo, which is also the capital of the autonomous community. The most populated municipalities in the province are Toledo and

Talavera de la Reina Talavera de la Reina () is a city and municipality of Spain, part of the autonomous community of Castile–La Mancha. Its population of 83,303 makes it the second most populated municipality of the province of Toledo and the fourth largest in th ...

with 83,741 and 83,303 inhabitants each (INE, 2017). The province contains 204 municipalities. The smallest municipality in Spain,

Illán de Vacas Illán de Vacas is a town in the province of Toledo, in Castile–La Mancha, Spain. The surface area of the municipality is 9 km², it has a total population of 1 inhabitant,http://www.ine.es/pob_xls/pobmun13.xls making it the least popula ...

, with a population of 8, is in Toledo province. See

List of municipalities in Toledo This is a list of the municipalities in the province of Toledo in the autonomous community of Castile–La Mancha, Spain. See also *Geography of Spain Spain is a country located in southwestern Europe occupying most (about 82 percen ...

Population development

The historical population is given in the following chart: Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.7) id:sfondo value:rgb(1,1,1) ImageSize = width:600 height:auto barincrement:30 PlotArea = left:40 bottom:40 top:20 right:20 DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:720 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal AlignBars = late ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:100 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:20 start:0 BackgroundColors = canvas:sfondo PlotData= color:skyblue width:20 shift:(-50,-5) fontsize:M anchor:till bar:1877 from:0 till:334 text:333,971 bar:1887 from:0 till:356 text:356,398 bar:1900 from:0 till:380 text:380,025 bar:1910 from:0 till:418 text:417,921 bar:1920 from:0 till:451 text:450,601 bar:1930 from:0 till:497 text:496,510 bar:1940 from:0 till:490 text:490,385 bar:1950 from:0 till:534 text:533,654 bar:1960 from:0 till:533 text:532,583 bar:1970 from:0 till:478 text:477,732 bar:1980 from:0 till:475 text:474,634 bar:1990 from:0 till:490 text:489,543 bar:2000 from:0 till:541 text:541,379 bar:2010 from:0 till:706 text:705,516 bar:2020 from:0 till:704 text:703,772 TextData= pos:(35,20) fontsize:M text:"Source: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, INE"

Politics and government

Provincial government and administration

The government body of the province is the Provincial Deputation of Toledo. Its seat is located at Toledo. The members of the plenary of the deputation (''diputación'') are indirectly elected from among the municipal councillors in the province based on the results of the municipal elections. In turn, the plenary elects the president of the deputation from among its members.

Representation of the Central Government

The

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appoints a Government Sub-delegate for the province, whose headquarters are located at Toledo. The Government Delegate charged with the representation in the whole autonomous community of Castile–La Mancha also has its seat in Toledo.

Coat of arms

Since 2013 the province of Toledo uses the arms of the city, the imperial

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'' bearing an escutcheon with the arms of Castile and

Leon Leon, Léon (French) or León (Spanish) may refer to: Places Europe * León, Spain, capital city of the Province of León * Province of León, Spain * Kingdom of León, an independent state in the Iberian Peninsula from 910 to 1230 and again f ...

, ''

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'' with the arms of the former

Kingdom of Toledo The Kingdom of Toledo ( es, Reino de Toledo) was a realm in the central Iberian Peninsula, created after the capture of Toledo by Alfonso VI of León in 1085. It continued in existence until 1833; its region is currently within Spain. Bac ...

. The eagle is flanked by the

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Geography

The province shares the Parque Nacional de Cabañeros with the

province of Ciudad Real The province of Ciudad Real () is a province in the southwestern part of the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha, Spain. It is bordered by the provinces of Cuenca, Albacete, Jaén, Province of Córdoba (Spain), Córdoba, Province of Bada ...

. The Corocho de Rocigalgo, located in the

Montes de Toledo The Montes de Toledo are one of the main systems of mountain ranges in the Iberian Peninsula. They divide the drainage basin of the Tagus from the basin of the Guadiana. The highest peak is high La Villuerca. Description The Montes de Toledo are ...

, is the highest point of the province (1,448 m). The

Tagus The Tagus ( ; es, Tajo ; pt, Tejo ; see #Name, below) is the longest river in the Iberian Peninsula. The river rises in the Montes Universales near Teruel, in mid-eastern Spain, flows , generally west with two main south-westward sections ...

crosses the province from the northeast to the west. Some right-bank tributaries are the

Guadarrama Guadarrama is a town and municipality in the Cuenca del Guadarrama comarca, in the Community of Madrid, Spain. Its population is 13,032 (winter, according to a 2006 census); the population swells to approximately 60,000 in summer. Its name co ...

, the Alberche or the Tiétar. File:Barrancas de Burujón - Toledo - Spain.jpg, The Barrancas de Burujón on a meander of the Tagus File:Garganta Torinas 003.JPG, The garganta Torinas File:20070513 Almonacid castle- view of countryside (3262060452).jpg, Countryside near Almonacid de Toledo File:Pico Rocigalgo Los Navalucillos.jpg, View from the Corocho de Rocigalgos

References

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