Madrid city

Madrid continued to call it an Islamic Arabic -mejry Algeled- and then turning to -mejrat the capital of the Kingdom of Spain and its largest city has a population of 3.2 million inhabitants (January 2011), and up the population to the suburbs with 6.54 million people. The area of ​​the city's 607 square kilometers (234 sq mi). The city is located on the banks of the Manzanares River in the center of Spain, Madrid is the third largest city in the European Union after London and Berlin. The seat of the Spanish government and the royal family and the country's most important companies and 6 public universities and several institutes of higher education. Madrid is considered one of the most important cities of Europe strategically, culturally and economically. It is the fourth largest city in terms of the number of tourists in Europe and the first in Spain and the total number of tourists who host city of nearly seven million tourists in 2006, which is the headquarters of the World Tourism Organization and the International Tourism Fair (FITUR).