Editing Castile and León (section)

===Territorial organization===
The community is the sum of nine provinces: [[Province of Ávila]], [[Province of Burgos]], [[Province of León]], [[Province of Palencia]], [[Province of Salamanca]], [[Province of Segovia]], [[Province of Soria]], [[Province of Valladolid]] and [[Province of Zamora]]. The provincial capitals fall in the homonymous cities to their corresponding provinces.

The concurrence of some peculiar geographical, social, historical and economic characteristics is legally recognized for [[El Bierzo]] (an area that was a province on its own in the [[1822 territorial division of Spain|project of initial provincial division]], though it disappeared in the [[1833 territorial division of Spain]]), and the [[Comarcas of Spain|comarca]] of ''El Bierzo'' was created in 1991, with its center in [[Ponferrada]].<ref>LAW 1/1991 of 14 March, by which is created and regulates the region of El Bierzo. Date of the B.O.C.Y.L .: 20 March 1991 No. Bulletin: 55/1991</ref> It is the only Castilian-Leonese territory recognized by law outside the normal provincial division, and it is administered by a Comarcal Council. Castile and León also includes the [[exclave of Treviño]], surrounded by the [[Basque Country (autonomous community)|Basque]] [[Álava|province of Araba/Álava]].
[[File:Provincias de Castilla y León.svg|thumb|left|300px|Provinces of Castile and León]]
{|class="wikitable"
!style="width:170px;"|Province
!style="width:85px;"|Capital
!style="width:85px;"|Area (km2)<ref>{{cite web |title=Población superficie y densidad por CCAA y provincias |publisher=Instituto Nacional de Estadística |url=http://www.ine.es/jaxi/tabla.do?path=/t43/a011/a1998/densidad/a2008/l0/&file=t10031.px&type=pcaxis&L=0 |access-date=18 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304081320/http://www.ine.es/jaxi/tabla.do?path=%2Ft43%2Fa011%2Fa1998%2Fdensidad%2Fa2008%2Fl0%2F&file=t10031.px&type=pcaxis&L=0 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
!style="width:85px;"|Population (2011)<ref>{{cite web |title=Censos de Población y Viviendas 2011. Resultados nacionales por Comunidades autónomas y provincias |publisher=Instituto Nacional de Estadística |url=http://www.ine.es/jaxi/tabla.do?path=%2Ft20%2Fe244%2Favance%2Fp01%2Fl0%2F&file=01001.px&type=pcaxis&L=0 |access-date=10 January 2018 |archive-date=24 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224155901/https://www.ine.es/jaxi/tabla.do?path=%2Ft20%2Fe244%2Favance%2Fp01%2Fl0%2F&file=01001.px&type=pcaxis&L=0 |url-status=live }}</ref>
!style="width:80px;"|Municipalities<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ine.es/pob_xls/pobmun11.xls |title=Cifras oficiales de población resultantes de la revisión del Padrón municipal a 1 de enero de 2011 |publisher=Instituto Nacional de Estadística |access-date=10 January 2018 |archive-date=17 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200917104840/https://www.ine.es/pob_xls/pobmun11.xls |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| [[File:Escudo de la provincia de Ávila.svg|13px]] [[Province of Ávila]] || [[Ávila, Spain|Ávila]] ||8 050.15||171 647 || [[List of municipalities in Ávila|248]]
|-
| [[File:Escudo de la Provincia de Burgos.svg|13px]] [[Province of Burgos]] || [[Burgos]] ||14 291.81||372 538|| [[List of municipalities in Burgos|371]]
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| [[File:Escudo de León.svg|13px]] [[Province of León]] || [[León, Spain|León]] ||15 580.83 ||493 312|| [[List of municipalities in León|211]]
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| [[File:Escudo de la Provincia de Palencia.svg|13px]] [[Province of Palencia]] || [[Palencia]] ||8 052.51||170 513|| [[List of municipalities in Palencia|191]]
|-
| [[File:Escudo de la Provincia de Salamanca.svg|13px]] [[Province of Salamanca]] || [[Salamanca]] ||12 349.95 ||350 018|| [[List of municipalities in Salamanca|362]]
|-
| [[File:Escudo de la provincia de Segovia.svg|13px]] [[Province of Segovia]] || [[Segovia]] ||6 922.75 ||163 171|| [[List of municipalities in Segovia|209]]
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| [[File:Escudo de la provicia de Soria.svg|13px]] [[Province of Soria]] || [[Soria]] ||10 306.42 ||94 610|| [[List of municipalities in Soria|183]]
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| [[File:Va-dip.svg|13px]] [[Province of Valladolid]] || [[Valladolid]] ||8 110.49 ||532 765|| [[List of municipalities in Valladolid|225]]
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| [[File:Escudo de la provincia de Zamora.svg|13px]] [[Province of Zamora]] || [[Zamora, Spain|Zamora]] ||10 561.26 ||191 613|| [[List of municipalities in Zamora|248]]
|}

====Provision of services====
[[File:Borrador de UBOST CyL (2015).svg|thumb|Draft of UBOST presented in September 2015.]]

The new territorial arrangement approved by Law 7/2013, on Planning, Services and Government of the Territory of the Community of Castile and León, establishes that the geographical spaces delimited for the provision of services are the [[Basic unit of territorial planning and services (Castile and León)|basic unit of territorial planning and services (UBOST)]] -urban or rural- and functional areas -[[Stable functional area (Castile and León)|stable]] or strategic-.<ref>{{citation |url=http://bocyl.jcyl.es/boletines/2013/10/01/pdf/BOCYL-D-01102013-2.pdf |title=Ley 7/2013, de 27 de septiembre, de Ordenación, Servicios y Gobierno del Territorio de la Comunidad de Castilla y León |work=[[Boletín Oficial de Castilla y León]] num. 189, of 1 October 2013 |publisher=[[Castile and León Regional Government|Junta de Castilla y León]] |pages=65222–65273 |issn=1989-8959 |access-date=10 January 2018 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304222455/http://bocyl.jcyl.es/boletines/2013/10/01/pdf/BOCYL-D-01102013-2.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> Also, the new ordination determines that the [[Mancommunity of common interest (Castile and León)|mancommunities of common interest]] are entities for the fulfillment of their specific purposes, which may be declared when their territorial scope substantially agrees with an UBOST or several contiguous ones.<ref>{{Cite web |title=DISPOSICIÓN EN HTML BOCYL-D-04052015-1&#124; BOLETÍN OFICIAL DE CASTILLA Y LEÓN |url=https://bocyl.jcyl.es/html/2015/05/04/html/BOCYL-D-04052015-1.do |access-date=2021-11-22 |website=bocyl.jcyl.es |archive-date=22 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211122181952/https://bocyl.jcyl.es/html/2015/05/04/html/BOCYL-D-04052015-1.do |url-status=live }}</ref>

This ordination is still in the implementation phase, and in September 2015 the draft map dividing the autonomous community was presented in 147 rural UBOST and 15 urban UBOST.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.comunicacion.jcyl.es/web/jcyl/Comunicacion/es/Plantilla100Detalle/1281372051501/_/1284483465801/Comunicacion |title=La Junta presenta el primer borrador de unidades básicas de ordenación del territorio, abierto a aportaciones previas a la propuesta inicial para su tramitación |first=Junta de Castilla y |last=León |website=www.comunicacion.jcyl.es |access-date=21 January 2018 |archive-date=11 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180111052723/http://comunicacion.jcyl.es/web/jcyl/Comunicacion/es/Plantilla100Detalle/1281372051501/_/1284483465801/Comunicacion |url-status=live }}</ref>