Gironès (; ) is a
comarca (county) in eastern
Catalonia
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,
Spain
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, bordering
Selva
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*Selva (comarca), a coastal comarca (county) in Catalonia, Spain
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Baix Empordà
Baix Empordà (; ; "Lower Empordà") is a comarca (county) in the Girona region, Catalonia, in Spain. It is one of the two comarques into which Empordà was divided in the comarcal division of 1936, the other one being Alt Empordà. It is popula ...
,
Alt Empordà
Alt Empordà (; ; "Upper Empordà") is a Comarques of Catalonia, comarca (county) located in the Comarques Gironines, Girona region, in Catalonia, Spain. It is one of two comarques into which Empordà was divided by the comarca division of Catalo ...
,
Pla de l'Estany
Pla de l'Estany () is a Comarques of Catalonia, comarca (county) in the Comarques Gironines, Girona region in Catalonia, Spain. Its name means "plain of the lake", the lake in question being the Lake of Banyoles. Banyoles is also the name of the ...
and
Garrotxa. , more than half of the comarca's 175,148 inhabitants live in the capital,
Girona
Girona (; ) is the capital city of the Province of Girona in the autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain, at the confluence of the Ter, Onyar, Galligants, and Güell rivers. The city had an official population of 106,476 in 2024, but the p ...
, which is also the capital of the Girona
region
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and
Spanish province.
Municipalities
References and notes
External links
Official comarcal web site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Girones
Comarques of the Province of Girona