Editing Aragon (section)

==Demographics==

===Population===
{{Historical populations
|type =
|footnote = Source: [[Instituto Nacional de Estadística (Spain)|INE]]
|1787| 623055
|1857| 880643
|1900| 912711
|1910| 952743
|1920| 997154
|1930| 1031559
|1940| 1058806
|1950| 1094002
|1960| 1105498
|1970| 1152708
|1981| 1213099
|1991| 1221546
|2001| 1204215
|2011| 1344509
|2021| 1331938
}}

{{As of|2015}}, half of Aragon's population, 50.45%, live in the capital city of [[Zaragoza]]. [[Huesca]] is the only other city in the region with a population greater than {{val|50000}}.

The majority of Aragonese citizens, 71.8%, live in the province of Zaragoza. 17.1% live in the province of Huesca, and 11.1% in the province of Teruel.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ine.es/pob06/pob06menu.htm |title=Cifras completas |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070203100553/http://www.ine.es/pob06/pob06menu.htm |archive-date=2007-02-03}}</ref> The population density of the region is the second lowest in Spain after [[Castilla-La Mancha]]: only 26.8/km<sup>2</sup>. 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 Teruel.

Only four cities have a population of more than {{val|20000}}: Zaragoza {{val|700000}}, Huesca {{val|50000}}, [[Teruel]] {{val|35000}}, and [[Calatayud]] {{val|20000}}.

=== Languages ===
[[File:Aragon languages.svg|thumb|left|Distribution of local languages in Aragon. Red: Aragonese, purple: Catalan, yellow: Spanish. Spanish is spoken in all of Aragon, and is the only official language.]]

[[Spanish language|Spanish]] is the native language in most of Aragon, and it is the only official language, understood and spoken by virtually everyone in the region. In addition to it, the [[Aragonese language]] continues to be spoken in several local varieties in the mountainous northern counties of the [[Pyrenees]], particularly in western [[Ribagorza (comarca)|Ribagorza]], [[Sobrarbe]], [[Jacetania]] and [[Somontano de Barbastro|Somontano]]; it is enjoying a resurgence of popularity as a tool for regional identity. In the easternmost areas of Aragon, along the border with [[Catalonia]], varieties of the [[Catalan language]] are spoken, including the comarcas of eastern Ribagorza, [[La Litera]], [[Bajo Cinca]], [[Bajo Aragón-Caspe]], [[Bajo Aragón]] and [[Matarraña]]. The strip-shaped Catalan-speaking area in Aragon is often called ''[[La Franja]]''.

The Declaration of Mequinenza (Declaració de Mequinensa in Catalan) was a document signed on February 1, 1984, in [[Mequinenza]] by the mayors of 17 municipalities of the Aragonese Catalan-speaking area together with José Bada Paniello (Minister of Culture of Government of Aragon at the time). Following the declaration, and complying with one of the proposals contained therein, on October 1, 1985, an agreement between the Government of Aragon and the Ministry of Education and Science was implemented for the teaching of the Catalan language as a voluntary and assessable subject in schools in the area.

The [[Languages Acts of Aragon]] of 2009 and 2013 have been passed to try to regulate the languages in this autonomous community. An update of these laws was announced but as of 2019 it has not been carried out.