(Spanish Coruña), a city and seaport of Spain, capital of a province of the same name, in the ancient province of Galicia, 43 miles N. of Santiago. Lat. 43. 23. 36. N.; Long. 8. 20. 13. W. Pop. (1845) 18,840. It is divided into an upper and lower town, the former situated on the east side of a small peninsula, and the latter on the isthmus connecting the peninsula with the mainland. The upper town is the more ancient, and is surrounded by walls and bastions, and defended by a citadel. The lower town, which is separated from the mainland by ramparts and a ditch, is comparatively well built, and contains the theatre, custom-house, palace of the captain-general, court-house, arsenal, and barracks. The harbour is safe, and defended on the E. by Fort San Diego, and on the W. by Fort San Antonio. North of the city is the Tower of Hercules, 92 feet in height, a Roman structure now used as a lighthouse. Coruña is well defended on the side of the sea, but its defences on the land side are commanded by a hill which overlooks the city. The inhabitants are chiefly occupied in the herring and pilchard fisheries on the coast. The principal manufactures are linens, hats, cordage, canvas, and cigars. Shipbuilding is also carried on. Coruña is famous in history for the repulse of a very superior French force by the English under Sir John Moore on 16th January 1809, in which that gallant general received his death-wound. He was interred in his martial cloak on a bastion near the sea. A monument raised by the British government now marks his resting-place. The name Coruña is derived from the Latin Columna. By British sailors it is called the Groyne—a corruption of the French name La Corogne.