Geography of Spain Geography of Spain Spain is a country located in southwestern Europe occupying most (about 85 percent) of the Iberian Peninsula and includes a small exclave inside France called Llívia as well as the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean, the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean off northwest Africa, and five places of sovereignty ("plazas de soberanía") on and off the coast of North Africa: Ceuta, Melilla, Islas Chafarinas, Peñón de Alhucemas, and Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera. The Spanish mainland is bordered to the south and east almost entirely by the Mediterranean Sea (except for a small land boundary
Conquest of the Canary Islands coalesced with these expeditions. La Gomera and El Hierro are depicted in the 1367 portolan of the brothers Domenico and Francesco Pizzigano. The Catalan Atlas of 1375 shows the Canaries almost completely and accurately mapped (only La Palma is missing). The eleven islands are named in the Catalan Atlas (from east to west) as "Graciosa" (La Graciosa),"laregranza" (Alegranza), "rocho" (Roque), "Insula de lanzaroto maloxelo" (Lanzarote), "insula de li vegi marin" (Lobos), "forteventura" (Fuerteventura), "Insula de Canaria" (Gran Canaria), "Insula del infernio" (Tenerife), "insula de gomera" (La Gomera), "insula de lo fero" (El Hierro). The name 'tenerefiz' is first given alongside