. "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 Ll\u00EDvia as well as the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean, the Canary Islands in the Western Atlantic Ocean 108 km (67 mi) off northwest Africa, and five places of sovereignty (plazas de soberan\u00EDa) on and off the coast of North Africa: Ceuta, Melilla, Islas Chafarinas, Pe\u00F1\u00F3n de Alhucemas, and Pe\u00F1\u00F3n de V\u00E9lez 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 with Gibraltar); to the north by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay; and to the west by the Atlantic Ocean and Portugal. "@en . . . .