page_title: Basque Country (autonomous community)
section_title: Features
hierarchical_section_title: Basque Country (autonomous community) / Geography / Features
caption_attribution_description: English: View of Txindoki mountain from Lazkaomendi (Lazkao) Euskara: Txindoki mendiaren ikuspegia Lazkaomenditik (Lazkao)
context_page_description: The Basque Autonomous Community is an autonomous community in northern Spain. It has the Basque provinces of Álava, Biscay, and Gipuzkoa. It is also called the "Basque Country."
  The Basque Country or Basque Autonomous Community was called a nationality in Spain by the Spanish Constitution of 1978. Navarre decided not to be part of the Basque Country. Instead, it became a different autonomous community.
  There is no capital in the autonomous community right now, but the city of Vitoria-Gasteiz, in Álava, has the Basque Parliament, the Basque Government, and the house of the President of the Basque Autonomous Community. The High Court of Justice of the Basque Country is in Bilbao. Vitoria-Gasteiz is the city with the most land, with 277 km², Bilbao has the most people, with 353,187.
  People also say Basque Country when they talk about the larger cultural region, the home of the Basque people, which has the autonomous community in it.
context_section_description: The Basque Country touches Cantabria and the Burgos province to the west, the Bay of Biscay to the north, France (Nouvelle-Aquitaine) and Navarre to the east and La Rioja (the Ebro River) to the south. The territory has three parts, separated by the Basque Mountains. The main line of mountains makes the watershed between the Atlantic and Mediterranean basins. The highest place in the mountains is in the Aizkorri massif (1551 m). The three areas are:
caption: Txindoki mountain from Lazkaomendi
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