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Asturias is located on the north-west Iberian peninsula, at the very heart of Green Spain
Asturias in figures
Land area and climate
Land area: 10,604 km2
Average temperature:
max: 18.1 ºC; min: 9.5 ºC
Infrastructures
Roads, dual carriageways and
motorways: 5,044 km
International airport: 1,417,400
passengers (2019)
Industrial ports: Gijon and Aviles
broadband network across the entire region
Population and human resources (2019)
Population: 1,022,800
Active population: 451,100
Working population: 387,000
Unemployment rate: 14.19%
Students (2018/2019):
21,002 university
17,627 vocational training
Economic information (2019)
GDP: 23,924 million €
GDP per capita: 23,299 €
Regional GVA Distribution:
Primary sector: 1.41 %
Industrial sector: 13.80 %
Construction: 7.43 %
Services sector: 71.47 %
Foreign commerce (2019)
Exports:
3,912 million €
Imports:
3,082 million €
Coverage rate: 126.95%
foreign commerce
Asturian exports have traditionally been characterised for their heavy concentration of metallic products (iron, steel and zinc), in keeping with the iron and steel works sector in the regional economy.
In fact, in 2017, the export of zinc and its manufacturing, iron and steel smelting and its manufacturing contributed 44 % of all exported products from Asturias.
GVA distribution by sector 2019


There are three branches of activity that produce around 85 % of the turnover in Asturias and 81 % of industrial employment: