El País is a Spanish-language daily newspaper in Spain. El País is based in the capital city of Madrid and it is owned by the Spanish media conglomerate PRISA. El País was the most-read general-interest daily newspaper in Spain's print press, with 854,000 readers, according to the first 2026 wave of the Estudio General de Medios (EGM). El País ranked fourth among Spain's most-read general-interest digital newspapers, with 17.6 million unique users, according to GfK DAM data (2025). It is also one of the Madrid dailies considered to be a national newspaper of record for Spain, along with El Mundo and ABC.
- Country
- Spain
- Headquarters
- Madrid
- Inception
- May 4, 1976
- Website
- http://www.elpais.com/, https://english.elpais.com/, https://elpais.com/
