L'Hospitalet de Llobregat

L'Hospitalet de Llobregat is a city and municipality in Catalonia, in north-eastern Spain, and forms part of the Barcelona metropolitan area, the province of Barcelona and the Barcelones comarca. Its Catalan name is often shortened to L'Hospitalet or L'H, and in Spanish it is called Hospitalet de Llobregat; the name literally means the little hospital of the Llobregat, and the river name was added to tell it apart from other towns with the same name. With 292,161 residents in 2025 it is the second largest city in Catalonia and the fifteenth largest in Spain, and it is counted among the most densely populated cities in the European Union. Its districts include Sanfeliu, Can Serra, Bellvitge and Sant Josep.