Editing Gipuzkoa (section)

== Denominations ==

=== ''Gipuzkoa'' ===
Gipuzkoa is the [[Basque language|Basque]] spelling recommended by the [[Euskaltzaindia|Royal Academy of the Basque Language]], and it is commonly used in official documents in that language. The Basque spelling is also mandatory in official texts from the various Spanish public administrations, even in documents written in Spanish. It is the spelling most frequently used by the Spanish-language media in the [[Basque Country (autonomous community)|Basque Country]].

It is also the spelling used in the Basque version of the [[Spanish Constitution of 1978|Spanish constitution]] and in the Basque version of the [[Statute of Autonomy of the Basque Country]]. Gipuzkoa is also the only official spelling approved for the historical territory by the [[Juntas Generales]] of the province.

=== ''Guipúzcoa'' ===
''Guipúzcoa'' is the spelling in Spanish, and it has been determined by the [[Association of Spanish Language Academies]] as being the only correct use outside official Spanish documents in which the Basque spelling is mandatory.<ref group="nb">The change in the official Spanish policy regarding the naming of Gipuzkoa dates only from 2011, and the last (and first) edition of the [[Panhispanic dictionary of doubts]] dates from 2005. The specific case of the spelling of ''Guipúzcoa'' is therefore not included. However, the articles for [http://www.rae.es/dpd/srv/search?key=l%E9rida Lérida] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180503003642/http://www.rae.es/dpd/srv/search?key=l%E9rida|date=2018-05-03}} and [https://archive.today/20130419061359/http://www.rae.es/dpd/srv/search?key=gerona Gerona] indicate that will be the criterion followed for the Guipúzcoa article in the edition that is currently under elaboration.</ref> It is also the Spanish spelling used in the Spanish version of the Constitution and in the Spanish version of the Statute of Autonomy of the Basque Country.