A Coruna

A Coruña,La Coruña(Spanish:[la koˈɾuɲa], previously official name), inEnglish:Corunnais a city and municipality of Galicia,Spain. It is the second-largest city in theautonomous communityandseventeenthoverall in the country. The city is the provincial capital of the province of the samename, having also served as political capital of theKingdom of Galiciafrom the 16th to the 19th centuries, and as a regional administrative centre between 1833 and 1982, before being replaced by Santiago de Compostela.

A Coruña is a busy port located on apromontoryin the entrance of an estuary in a large gulf (thePortus Magnus Artabrorumof the classical geographers) on the Atlantic Ocean. It provides a distribution point for agricultural goods from the region.