Of the province's 711,228 people (2012), only about 1/9 live in the capital,
Toledo, which is also the capital of the autonomous community. The most populated municipalities in the province are Toledo and
Talavera de la Reina with 83,741 and 83,303 inhabitants each (INE, 2017). The province contains 204 municipalities. The smallest municipality in Spain,
Illán de Vacas, with a population of 3, is in Toledo province. See
List of municipalities in Toledo.
Population development The historical population is given in the following chart: Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.7) id:sfondo value:rgb(1,1,1) ImageSize = width:600 height:auto barincrement:30 PlotArea = left:40 bottom:40 top:20 right:20 DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:720 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal AlignBars = late ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:100 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:20 start:0 BackgroundColors = canvas:sfondo PlotData= color:skyblue width:20 shift:(-50,-5) fontsize:M anchor:till bar:1877 from:0 till:334 text:333,971 bar:1887 from:0 till:356 text:356,398 bar:1900 from:0 till:380 text:380,025 bar:1910 from:0 till:418 text:417,921 bar:1920 from:0 till:451 text:450,601 bar:1930 from:0 till:497 text:496,510 bar:1940 from:0 till:490 text:490,385 bar:1950 from:0 till:534 text:533,654 bar:1960 from:0 till:533 text:532,583 bar:1970 from:0 till:478 text:477,732 bar:1980 from:0 till:475 text:474,634 bar:1990 from:0 till:490 text:489,543 bar:2000 from:0 till:541 text:541,379 bar:2010 from:0 till:706 text:705,516 bar:2020 from:0 till:704 text:703,772 TextData= pos:(35,20) fontsize:M text:"Source: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, INE" == Politics and government ==