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A Coruña ( Galician: [a koˈɾuɲa] official name, Spanish : La Coruña pronounced: [la koˈɾuɲa] , English : Corunna ) is a city and municipality of Galicia , Spain. It is the second-largest city in the autonomous community and seventeenth overall in the country. The city is the provincial capital of the province of the same name , having also served as political capital of the Kingdom of Galicia from the 16th to the 19th centuries, and as a regional administrative centre between 1833 and 1982, before being
A Coruña is a busy port located on a promontory in the entrance of an estuary in a large gulf (the Portus Magnus Artabrorum of the classical geographers) on the Atlantic Ocean. It provides a distribution point for agricultural goods from the region.
In English, use of the Spanish or Galician forms now predominates. However, the traditional form Corunna / k ə ˈ r ʌ n ə / can still be found, particularly in reference to the Battle of Corunna in the Peninsular War . Archaically, the city was known as The Groyne, probably from French "La Corogne", although this name could also be as much a geographical description given the city occupies a small peninsula protruding out into the Atlantic. In Spain, currently the only official form of the name is the Galici