Talk:Spain

There should be some discussion in the article about Spain's complicated relationship to Western Sahara, which by many accounts (e.g. the United Nations) is still technically a Spanish colony. Nosferattus (talk) 15:43, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

Spain officialy abandon that zone with the mouvment "La Marcha Verde" 1975. ~2026-10790-70 (talk) 19:44, 17 February 2026 (UTC)

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Question, is the inclusion of the Valencian "language" really appropriate here?
It's just a dialect of Catalan with no real differences orthography-wise
Quinoa ❤️ (talk) 13:22, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

Updated to say Catalan/Valencian instead of listing them separately Flopgui (talk) 17:41, 22 December 2025 (UTC)

It is not appropiate. ~2025-43166-39 (talk) 00:44, 27 December 2025 (UTC)

As there is a difference of opinion on whether Spain is (mostly) in "southwestern Europe" or "Southwestern Europe", there is a discussion at talk:Central Europe#Capitalising informal region names to which editors of this article may wish to contribute. 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 20:19, 9 January 2026 (UTC)

Hello. I'm Spaniard and I was shoked to read that Pedro Sanchez is the Prime Minister. Here in spain there is not a prime minister as in UK. However, Pedro Sanchez is officialy the President of the Government, usually named directly in a coloquial way as the President of Spain (there is any other president). I want to remind that here in spain, even though the king his the chief of the army among other functions, in real life is more like an honorific role that focus on the protection of the citizents and as institutional representation of spain in various events. ~2026-10790-70 (talk) 19:40, 17 February 2026 (UTC)

I was surprised that you picked up on a single mention of "prime minister" as though that were the only one in the article, but in fact the article consistently uses "prime minister". So I looked at Spanish Wikipedia and found that the corresponding article speaks of the position as "presidente del gobierno". Curious, I ran Google searches on "government of Spain" and "gobierno de españa pedro sanchez". I found that while Spanish sources consistently have "presidente" or "presidente del gobierno", as your comment would lead one to expect, English sources consistently refer to the role as "prime minister". This was surprising, so I looked a little further, but didn't have to look for as an explanation is offered here at Prime Minister of Spain#Official title. It turns out English does the same thing with the Prime Minister of Italy, the "Presidente del Consiglio dei ministri".

I'm trying to work out the reasoning, taking into account that we don't do that (or I don't think we do) consistently for all countries. Maybe it's a combination of "prime minister" being the basic English term for a government leader chosen in that manner and the fact that those roles aren't simply "the president" but "the president of the government" or "the president of the Council of Ministers", while English considers "prime minister" to be their role with respect to the countries. That's all speculation by me, unrelated to the fact that English Wikipedia is using the standard term applied in English to the leaders of the government from those countries. Largoplazo (talk) 21:50, 17 February 2026 (UTC)

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• remove "which spanned all continents". reason: Spain did not have colonies in Antarctica or Australia.

~2026-16359-70 (talk) 10:43, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

 Done. I thought perhaps the original writer meant for 'spanning continents' to refer to the circumnavigation earlier in the sentence, but this would be redundant anyway. Prolabelmaker (talk) 11:32, 15 March 2026 (UTC)