Jaén () is a

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of southern

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, in the eastern part of the

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Andalusia Andalusia (, ; es, Andalucía ) is the southernmost autonomous community in Peninsular Spain. It is the most populous and the second-largest autonomous community in the country. It is officially recognised as a "historical nationality". The t ...

. It is bordered by the provinces of Ciudad Real,

Albacete Albacete (, also , ; ar, ﭐَلبَسِيط, Al-Basīṭ) is a city and municipality in the Spanish autonomous community of Castilla–La Mancha, and capital of the province of Albacete. Lying in the south-east of the Iberian Peninsula, the ...

, Granada and Córdoba. Its capital is Jaén city. Its area is 13,484 km². Its population is 657,387 (2003), about one sixth of whom living in the capital. It contains 97 municipalities. The highest point of the province is Pico Mágina (2165 m). One of the less-known provinces of Spain, compared to the tourist-oriented coast, it has four national parks and many other protected natural areas. The province also contains two

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cities,

Úbeda Úbeda (; from Iberian ''Ibiut'') is a town in the province of Jaén in Spain's autonomous community of Andalusia, with 34,733 (data 2017) inhabitants. Both this city and the neighbouring city of Baeza benefited from extensive patronage in the ...

and Baeza, both recently declared

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s by UNESCO. The province has among the highest concentration of castles in the world outside

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, thanks to its strategic position during the ''

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''. The annual

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, held until 2010 in Linares, attracted many of the world's best players. The province is the largest producer of olive oil in the world. It produces around 45% of all Spanish olive oil and 20% of the world's production. For this reason the province is also known as ''World Capital of Olive Oil''. There are more than 66 million olive trees, spread over a surface of 550,000

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s. The province alone produces more olive oil than the entire country of Italy. The province's production in 2013 was 749.387

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of olive oil.

Symbols

Flag

The flag of the province of Jaén was approved by the Provincial Council of Jaén, in the plenary session held on March 3, 2014 and registered in the Andalusian Registry of Local Entities, complying with Law 6/2003, of October 9 of Symbols, Processing and Registration of Andalusian Local Entities. The flag is arranged in a rectangular cloth with a proportion of 1/1.5, being longer than it is wide. It has an area of 10x15 sectors, with the shield being three sectors high and eight sectors wide; and occupying six sectors high and five sectors wide. The flag is green pantone color 377, in reference to the natural heritage of the province. Panorámica olivar Jaén01

Population

The historical population is given in the following chart: Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.7) id:sfondo value:rgb(1,1,1) ImageSize = width:600 height:auto barincrement:30 PlotArea = left:40 bottom:40 top:20 right:20 DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:800 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal AlignBars = late ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:100 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:50 start:0 BackgroundColors = canvas:sfondo PlotData= color:skyblue width:20 shift:(-50,-5) fontsize:M anchor:till bar:1877 from:0 till:403 text:403,441 bar:1887 from:0 till:428 text:428,152 bar:1900 from:0 till:470 text:469,881 bar:1910 from:0 till:525 text:524,516 bar:1920 from:0 till:591 text:590,570 bar:1930 from:0 till:674 text:674,345 bar:1940 from:0 till:761 text:760,847 bar:1950 from:0 till:782 text:781,228 bar:1960 from:0 till:747 text:746,941 bar:1970 from:0 till:668 text:668,206 bar:1980 from:0 till:640 text:639,821 bar:1990 from:0 till:638 text:637,633 bar:2000 from:0 till:644 text:643,820 bar:2010 from:0 till:668 text:667,484 bar:2020 from:0 till:631 text:631,381 TextData= pos:(35,20) fontsize:M text:"Source: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, INE"

Symbols

Flag

Population

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