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Canary Islands

Location N Atlantic Ocean, W of Morocco
Latitude and longitude  28 00 N, 16 00 W
Sovereignty Spain
Political status notes Officially, "Autonomous Community of the Canaries"; one of the seven Ultra Peripheral Regions of the European Union
Population  1,915,540
Census notes January 1, 2004
Land area in square kilometers 43
Capital  Las Palmas de Gran Canarias and Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Fundamental legal document(s) online
Estatuto de Autonomía (1982) (Spanish), from the Government of the Canary Islands (PDF)

Other legal documents online
Leyes y Reglamentos de la Comunidad Autónoma de Canarias (Spanish)
Boletín Oficial de Canarias (Spanish); also at this site  

Sources and other useful websites
Canarias.org
Government of the Canary Islands (Spanish)
Instituto Canarias de Estadístico (Spanish)
United Nations System-Wide Earthwatch Island Directory

Selected articles on law and political status
Les Canaries dans la Perspective d l’an 2000 (French), by Román Rodriguez Rodriguez, Presidente del Gobierno de Canarias, in Jean-Didier Hache (editor), What Status for Europe's Islands? (Quel Statut pour les Îles d'Europe?) (2000); an abstract in English (The Canary Islands in the Prospect of the Year 2000) is included.  This volume is no longer available online.   Interested readers may be able to purchase it through Alibris or other booksellers.

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