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The '''Community of Madrid''' ({{langx|es|Comunidad de Madrid}} {{IPA|es|komuniˈðað ðe maˈðɾið||ES-pe - Comunidad de madrid.ogg}}) is one of the seventeen [[autonomous communities]]<!--Ceuta and Melilla are autonomous cities but do not have autonomous parliaments, so counted separately--> and 50 [[provinces of Spain|provinces]] of [[Spain]]. It is located in the centre of the [[Iberian Peninsula]], and of the [[Meseta Central|Central Plateau]] ({{lang|es|Meseta Central}}). Its capital and largest municipality is
The Community of Madrid is the third most populous in Spain with 7,058,041 (2024) inhabitants, roughly a seventh of the national total, mostly concentrated in the [[metropolitan area of Madrid]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://club.telepolis.com/geografo/regional/espa/madter.htm |title=La economía de la Comunidad de Madrid, una de las más potentes y dinámicas del país |access-date=2008-04-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091217141302/http://club.telepolis.com/geografo/regional/espa/madter.htm |archive-date=2009-12-17 |url-status=dead }}</ref> It is also the most densely populated autonomous community. Madrid has both the largest nominal [[Gross domestic product|GDP]], slightly ahead of that of [[Catalonia]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=Madrid supera a Catalunya como comunidad con más PIB|url=https://www.lavanguardia.com/economia/20191220/472368056596/madrid-catalunya-pib-economia-sorpasso.html|date=2019-12-20|website=La Vanguardia|language=es|access-date=2020-05-15}}</ref> and the highest GDP per capita in the country.<ref>{{Cite web |title=INEbase / Economía /Cuentas económicas /Contabilidad regional de España / Resultados |url=https://www.ine.es/dyngs/INEbase/es/operacion.htm?c=Estadistica_C&cid=1254736167628&menu=resultados&idp=1254735576581 |access-date=2023-11-16 |website=INE |language=es}}</ref> Madrid's economy is highly [[Tertiary sector of the economy|tertiarised]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ocupados por sector económico, sexo y comunidad autónoma. Porcentajes respecto del total de cada comunidad(4949) |url=https://www.ine.es/jaxiT3/Tabla.htm?t=4949&L=0 |access-date=2023-11-16 |website=INE |language=es}}</ref> having a leading role in Spain's logistics and transportation.
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