La Sagra is a region in central Spain lying between the cities of

Madrid Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It i ...

and Toledo. In a wider sense, it includes municipalities belonging to both the south of the

Community of Madrid The Community of Madrid (; ) is one of the seventeen autonomous communities and 50 provinces of Spain, provinces of Spain. It is located at the heart of the Iberian Peninsula and Meseta Central, Central Plateau (); its capital and largest munici ...

and the north of the

province of Toledo Toledo () is a Province (Spain), province of central Spain, in the western part of the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Castile–La Mancha. It is bordered by the provinces of Madrid Province, Madrid, Cuenca Province (Spai ...

. In a more restricted sense, concerning the municipalities in Castilla−La Mancha, the Toledan Sagra includes municipalities in the right (north) bank of the

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up to the northern provincial border with the Madrid region, whilst its Western limits are moot. The placename comes from the Arabic ''Al-Saqra'', 'cultivated field'. Extending across roughly 1,100 km², the Toledan Sagra features a generally flat landscape. In the 21st-century, the area has experienced robust demographic growth and a boom of

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Comarca de La Sagra, según la Diputación de Toledo
(Spanish) {{coord, 40, 03, 41, N, 3, 54, 10, W, region:ES_type:adm3rd_source:kolossus-cawiki, display=title Comarcas of Castilla–La Mancha Comarcas of the Community of Madrid Geography of the Province of Toledo