Some data

• Area : 10 565 km²
• Population : 1 117 370 inhabitants (1995)
• Languages : Spanish; Asturian (90% can understand it, 72% can speak it, 57% can read it, and 38% can write it); Galician in the west (50 000 speakers).
  Asturian, AKA Astur-Leonese, is also spoken in the Spanish autonomous community of Castilla y León in two places : in León it is still spoken in Alto Bierzo, but not in Bajo Bierzo (where Galician is spoken), Sanabria (Zamora), but Galician is already spoken more in the West (area of As Portelas), although Asturian-Leonese is also spoken in the Portuguese region of Miranda do Douro and in some villages of the Northern border of Portugal in Trás-os-Montes district, such as Ridonor and Guadramil. Galician is also spoken in three villages of the Spanish autonomous community of Extremadura, in the area known as Serra de Xalma, and Portuguese is spoken on some places of the Spanish border, (Alamedilla, Salamanca; Ferreira de Alcântara, Cáceres; Olivença, Badajoz).
• Capital : Oviedo (in Asturian: Uviéu)

• Political status : Autonomous Community of Spain since 30-DEC-1981