Barcelona is the capital of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain after Madrid . It is located on the Mediterranean , approximately 120 kilometers south of the Pyrenees and the border with France. Barcelona is the administrative seat of the province of the same name and the comarca Barcelonès .
Around 1.63 million people live within the urban area. This makes Barcelona the tenth largest municipality in the European Union , the second largest after Hamburg that is not the capital of a member state, and the second most densely populated city in Europe after Paris . Together with the municipalities in the Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona, the agglomeration has a population of 3.16 million. A total of 4.86 million people live in the wider catchment area of the metropolitan region ( Àmbit Metropolità de Barcelona ). With more than seven million tourists from abroad every year (as of 2015), Barcelona is also one of the three most visited cities in Europe.
In a ranking of cities based on their quality of life , Barcelona took 43rd place out of 231 cities surveyed worldwide in 2018. According to the Global Wealth and Lifestyle Report 2020 , Barcelona is a European leader in terms of value for money for luxury living.
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