in Alicante province According to the 2009 population data, Alicante ranks as the 4th most populous province in Spain (after Madrid , Barcelona , and Valencia ), with 1,917,012 inhabitants. [1] Cities with more than 50,000 inhabitants in the province are Alicante (334,757 inhabitants), Elche (230,112), Torrevieja (101,792), Orihuela (86,164), Benidorm