Valencia (Spain)

pop (2000e) 3 881 000; area 23 260 km²/8978 sq mi. Autonomous region of E Spain, occupying a narrow coastal area from the Ebro delta to R Segura; a former Moorish kingdom, under Spanish rule from 1238; C plateau cut by several rivers; includes tourist resorts on the Costa Blanca and Costa del Azahar; chief town, Valencia, pop (2000e) 763 000, on R Turia; third largest city in Spain; archbishopric; airport; railway; car ferries to Balearics and Canary Is; university (1500); tourism, wine, fruit, chemicals, shipyards, textiles, vehicles, ironwork, silk; ceramics museum, fine arts museum, Serranos military towers (14th-c), cathedral (13th–15th-c); Fiesta of La Virgen de los Desamparados (May), St James fair (Jul).

Valencia is the name of two large cities in different parts of the world:

Spain: Valencia, capital of the Valencia Autonomous Community.

Other places in Spain named Valencia include:

Valencia de Alcántara Valencia de las Torres, province of Badajoz Valencia del Mombuey, province of Badajoz Valencia del Ventoso, province of Badajoz

Latin America and the Caribbean

Valencia, Los Ríos, in Ecuador (province of Los Ríos) Valencia de Fuentes, in Mexico (state of Guanajuato) Valencia, Trinidad and Tobago, (regional corporation of Sangre Grande)

Philippines

Valencia, Bohol Valencia City, Bukidnon Valencia, Negros Oriental

United States

Valencia, California Valencia, New Mexico Valencia, Pennsylvania Valencia County, New Mexico Valencia West, Arizona

Miscellaneous

The Valencian language, valencià Valencia orange Valencia peanut Circuit de Valencia, motor racing circuit in Spain Valencia CF, Spanish football club Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain) Universitat de València (Spain) Valencia Community College, in the U.S. state of Florida Lake Valencia, in Venezuela Valencia, a book by Michelle Tea SS Valencia, a steamship wrecked in 1906