RT Bloomberg en Español (@BBGenEspanol)🇪🇸 España enfrenta la despoblación de su mundo rural. De aldeas vendidas a extranjeros a proyectos de turismo y sostenibilidad, surgen fórmulas para revitalizar la llamada “España vacía”.@LauraMillanL explica: https://t.co/HXW7OIEzQQ https://t.co/Dbt27vuV3Y ...

Rural Spain is emptying out, so the Spanish government is getting creative. Sparsely populated regions are so common that they've earned their own nickname, Espa, or empty Spain. While 84% of Spain's territory is rural, only 16% of people live outside cities.People have been living for years driven by a lack of jobs, poor infrastructure, and almost no cultural offerings. Spain's rural areas saw a 4.4% population decline between 2014 and 2023, even as the country's overall population grew. To confront the pr ...

Spain is offering subsidies and even selling entire villages as it fights to save rural areas from depopulation.@LauraMillanL explains how the government is getting creative to lure people back to sparsely populated regions https://t.co/l0PAiNFR6n https://t.co/P2xzBGQ54k ...

Spain is selling villages and offering subsidies to live in sparsely-populated towns to lure the wealthy back to the countryside https://t.co/IZE5snBb9H ...

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Check out the Starlink Mini transforming a rural Zambian school! A 100W solar panel & battery deliver 150Mbps internet—SpaceX’s tech has reached 100+ countries since 2019, outpacing old-school infrastructure. With 40% of rural Zambia off-grid, this could boost learning by 20% (ITU, 2023). ...

Check out the Starlink Mini transforming a rural Zambian school! A 100W solar panel & battery deliver 150Mbps internet—SpaceX’s tech has reached 100+ countries since 2019, outpacing old-school infrastructure. With 40% of rural Zambia off-grid, this could boost learning by 20% (ITU, 2023). ...