Madrid is the capital of Spain, and the greatest district of the Community of Madrid. The quantity of occupants in the city is ideal around 3.2 million with a metropolitan domain people of approximately 6.5 million. In the European Union, Madrid is the third-greatest city After Berlin and London and its metropolitan locale is the third-greatest in the European Union after London and Paris.

The city is situated on the Manzanares in the point of convergence of both the country and the Community of Madrid (which includes the city of Madrid, its conurbation and intensified rustic regions and towns); this gathering is encompassed by the self-overseeing gatherings of Castile and Castile-La Mancha and León. Moreover, Madrid is the political and social point of convergence of Spain. The present leader is Manuela Carmena of Madrid.

Madrid's urban agglomeration has the third-biggest GDP in the European Union and its effects in legislative issues, guideline, energy, environment, media, outline, science, society, and articulations of the human experience entire add to its status as one of the world's major overall urban groups. Madrid is home to two world-prominent football clubs, Real Madrid and Atlético de Madrid. As a result of its financial yield, select desire of living, and market measure, Madrid is seen as the real cash related concentration of Southern Europe and the Iberian Peninsula; it has the head work environments of by a wide margin the majority of genuine Spanish associations, for instance, Telefónica, Iberia, and Repsol. Madrid is the seventeenth most sensible city on the planet according to Monocle magazine, in its 2014 record.

Madrid houses the home office of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), Organization of Ibero-American States (OEI), having a place with the United Nations Organization (UN), and the Public Interest Oversight Board (PIOB) and the SEGIB. It also has huge all inclusive controllers of Spanish: the Standing Committee of the Association of Spanish Language Academies, the Cervantes Institute and the Foundation of Urgent Spanish (Fundéu BBVA) and headquarters of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE). Madrid forms fairs, for instance, FITUR, ARCO, SIMO TCI and the Cibeles Madrid Fashion Week.