Accessible Political Map of Spain for Blind and Visually Impaired People – ONCE Social Group

Los accessible maps for blind and visually impaired people are a priority in the design, creation and constant improvement of adapted materials and for an inclusive education that we seek from the ONCE Social Group, with areas such as the ONCE Bibliographic Service or the Spanish Braille Commission. This is the Political map of Spain, with all the updated data:

Spain, also called the Kingdom of Spain, is a country that has an extension of 505,944 square kilometers and which is located in the Iberian Peninsula, the Canary Islands, the Balearic Islands and North Africa in the cities of Ceuta and Melilla, as can be seen on this political map. This fact gives the territory the status of a transcontinental country, as it is present on more than one continent. The capital of Spain is Madridand the country is made up of 17 autonomous communities y 2 autonomous cities which are divided, in turn, into 52 provinces in total.

Spain has been a member country of the European Union since 1986 and is constituted as a social and democratic State of law whose system of government is the parliamentary monarchy. It has a total population of 47,450,795 inhabitantsa figure that makes it eThe fourth most populous country in the European Unionbehind Germany, France and Italy.

On this page we offer you the representation of the territory in the form of a political map of Spain. The particularity of this map and what makes it unique is that, in addition to performing its usual function, it is fully prepared so that it can be used by blind and visually impaired people.

Political map of Spain: Materials for the accessibility of blind people

From the ONCE Social Group We are actively working to make life easier for blind people with maps like the ones you can find here. This political map of Spain is designed so that everything can be touched and heard, and so that all people can understand and understand the particularities of the Spanish territory in full.

He ONCE Bibliographic Service (SBO) is responsible for building these maps with very specific procedures. First, the map matrix is ​​designed and, with it, all the physical and braille elements necessary so that, from that moment on, all the copies that are required can be made. Subsequently, the maps are printed on a large format printer on a sheet of plastic material and, with heat and suction, the map is glued perfectly to the relief of the plastic. This manufacturing method is similar to that used for tourist relief maps of countries or of specific mountainous areas.

This process is applied to the creation of the map of Spain and the rest of the maps produced by Grupo Social ONCE.

Besides, the ONCE Bibliographic Service and the Spanish Braille Commission have recently prepared and published a new edition of the physical map of Spain which includes an explanatory guide.

It is a didactic material aimed at students and the general public. It is mainly intended for exploration through touch, but combining the shapes of the relief with a visual representation in well-contrasted colors. In this way, in addition to providing an additional means of perception to people with different visual disabilities, the aim is also to encourage the participation of those who do not have any visual disability, in order to promote mutual inclusion between groups and publicize our materials. educational beyond its usual circle of users.

However, the priority is the purely tactile experience, so prior adaptation work is necessary so that the exploration of the map allows a good spatial understanding of each element separately and of all of them, something that also happens with the political map and all its lines and borders.

This map and the rest of the collection are the result of joint work over the years between the Spanish Braille Commission and the ONCE Bibliographic Service. Following the initial pedagogical criteria established by the ONCE Education Department, a team of professionals has been in charge of preparing the guidelines for manufacturing these materials. Their accumulated experience and the information provided by users on the understanding and usefulness of the maps have been very useful for reviewing and updating the elaboration criteria that will allow the final product to be improved.

Download or print the political map of Spain

You can then download and then print the political map of Spain accessible through this link (5,29 MB).

In this PDF file you will also find the code guide of all the autonomous communities with their respective provinces (4,61 MB).

In addition, you can also get the key guide separately and the necessary audios to identify the particularities of the map of Spain accessible (7,11 MB).

In this table you can see the list of autonomous communities, their respective capitals, all their provinces and the total number of inhabitants in each region. The necessary and very useful information to complete the political map of Spain.

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