A Coruña

A Coruña, known in Spanish as La Coruña, is a port city and municipality on the Atlantic coast of Galicia in northwestern Spain. It sits on a promontory in the Golfo Ártabro and, with 251,277 residents, is the second-largest city in Galicia after Vigo. It is the capital of the Province of A Coruña, served as the political capital of the Kingdom of Galicia from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, and was a regional administrative centre between 1833 and 1982. Today it is the main industrial and financial centre of northern Galicia and the home of the Universidade da Coruña. Its built-up area is dense, and it has the tallest mean height of buildings of any city in Spain.