Population
As of 2006, half of Aragon's population, 50.8%, live in the capital city of Zaragoza. Huesca is the only other city in the region with a population greater than 50,000.
The majority of Aragonese citizens, 71.8%, live in the province of Zaragoza; 17.1% in Huesca and 11.1% in Teruel. The population density of the region is the second lowest in Spain: only 26,8/km2; after Castilla La Mancha. The most densely populated areas are around the valley of the river Ebro, particularly around Zaragoza, and in the Pyrenean foothills, while the areas with the fewest inhabitants tend to be those that are higher up in the Pyrenean mountains, and in most of the southern province of TeruŠµl.
| Demographic evolution of Aragon and percentage of the total national population |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1857 | 1900 | 1910 | 1920 | 1930 | 1940 | 1950 | |||||||||||||
| Population | 880,643 | 912,711 | 952,743 | 997,154 | 1,031,559 | 1,058,806 | 1,094,002 | ||||||||||||
| Percentage | 5.69% | 4.90% | 4.77% | 4.66% | 4.36% | 4.07% | 3.89% | ||||||||||||
| 1960 | 1970 | 1981 | 1991 | 1996 | 2001 | 2006 | |||||||||||||
| Population | 1,105,498 | 1,152,708 | 1,213,099 | 1,221,546 | 1,187,546 | 1,199,753 | 1,277,471 | ||||||||||||
| Percentage | 3.61% | 3.39% | 3.21% | 3.10% | 2.99% | 2.92% | 2.86% | ||||||||||||
Only four cities have more than 20,000 inhabitants: Zaragoza 700,000; Huesca 50,000; Teruel 35,000 and Calatayud 20,000.
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