sentences:  The community ranks 34th amongst all European regions (evaluated in 2002), and 50th amongst the most competitive cities-regions worldwide, ahead of Barcelona and Valencia, the other two largest metropolitan areas of Spain.The strengths of the economy of the community are its low unemployment rate, its high investment in research, its high development, and the added-value services therein performed.Its weaknesses include the low penetration of broadband and new technologies of information and an unequal male to female occupation.