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Bilbao

Members of anti-military Basque group 'Kakitzat' perform a mock funeral during a protest against Spain's military budget during the International Day of Women Against War on May 24, 2013 in the Northern Spanish Basque city of Bilbao.

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About Bilbao

Bilbao, sometimes referred to as Bilbo (another Basque variant), in the North of Spain, is the largest city in the Basque Country and the capital of the province of Biscay (Basque: Bizkaia). The city has over 354,000 inhabitants (2006) and is the most economically and industrially active part of Greater Bilbao, the zone in which almost half of the Basque Country’s population lives. Greater Bilbao’s 946,829 inhabitants are spread along the length of the Nervion River, whose banks are home also to numerous business and factories, which during the industrial revolution brought heightened prosperity to the region.

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