Teruel is a province of Aragon, in the northeast of Spain.
It is bordered by the provinces of Tarragona, Castellón, Valencia (including its exclave Rincón de Ademuz), Cuenca, Guadalajara, and Zaragoza.
The capital is Teruel.
The area of the province is 14,809 km². Its population is 138,686 (2003), of whom about a quarter live in the capital, and its population density is 9.36/km². It contains 236 municipalities, of which more than half are villages of under 200 people. See List of municipalities in Teruel.
See also List of Aragonese comarcas.
Famous people
- Luis Buñuel, film director from Calanda
- Antón García Abril, music composer
- Pablo Serrano, sculptor from Crivillén
- Luis Milla, retired footballer who played for CD Teruel, FC Barcelona and R. Madrid
- David Civera, light music singer
- Francisco Mariano Nifo, pioneer of journalism, from Alcañiz.
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