Madrid, capital of Spain as well as of the Autonomous region of Madrid, is located in the center of the Iberian Peninsula, on the south-eastern tip of Europe. Its area of 8.028 km2 is surrounded by two other autonomous regions: Castilla y León , in the north-west, and Castilla-La Mancha, in the south-east.
Madrid has both a mountain chain, "Sistema Central", and a river valley, that of the "Tajo" river. The city of Madrid is on the "Manzanares" river, a tributary of the "Jarama" that flows into the "Tajo".
Madrid is 1981.2 ft (650 meters) above sea level, though there are areas which are over 2133 ft (700 m). Its temperature ranges from 32º F (0º C), or slightly lower in the winter, to 104º F (40º C) in the summer.
- A Coruña 609
Amsterdam 1.735
Athens 4.029
Barcelona 621
Berlín 2.360
Bilbao 395
Brussels 1.556 - Cádiz 663
Copenhagen 2.539
Stockholm 3.163
Lisboa 644
London 1.725
Oslo 3.133
París 1.260 - Rome 2.086
Sevilla 538
Valencia 352
Valladolid 193
Vienna 2.444
Zaragoza 325
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Brussels 0 h
Copenhagen 0 h
Stockholm 0 h
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Moscow +2 h
Nueva York -6 h
Oslo 0 h
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Tokyo +7 h
Beijing +6 h
Shanghai +6 h
Buenos Aires -5 h
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Spain is one of the 12 countries in the European Union that adhered to the Economic and Monetary Union, accepting the euro as its currency on January 1 2002. Of the now 25 European Union countries, those which use the euro besides Spain are Germany, Austria, Belgium, Greece, Finland, France, Netherlands, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg and Portugal.
