id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4807 Spain - Wikipedia .html text/html 29512 3384 68 In the early modern period, Spain ruled one of the largest empires in history which was also one of the first global empires, spawning a large cultural and linguistic legacy that includes over 570 million Hispanophones,[14] making Spanish the world's second-most spoken native language, after Mandarin Chinese. It is a member of the United Nations (UN), the European Union (EU), the Eurozone, the Council of Europe (CoE), the Organization of Ibero-American States (OEI), the Union for the Mediterranean, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), the Schengen Area, the World Trade Organization (WTO) and many other international organisations. Spain is organisationally structured as a so-called Estado de las Autonomías ("State of Autonomies"); it is one of the most decentralised countries in Europe, along with Switzerland, Germany and Belgium;[127] for example, all autonomous communities have their own elected parliaments, governments, public administrations, budgets, and resources. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4807.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4807.txt