A Coruña ( (official name currently) ), La Coruña ( (official name until 1998, B.O.E. 3rd March 1998, Law 2/1998) ); is a city and municipality of Galicia, Spain. It is the second-largest city in the autonomous community and seventeenth overall in the country. The city is the provincial capital of the province of the same name, having also served as political capital of the Kingdom of Galicia from the 16th to the 19th centuries, and as a regional administrative centre between 1833 and 1982, before being replaced by Santiago de Compostela.