Priorat county is in the Principality of Catalonia, one of Spain’s Autonomous Communities.
It is made up of 23 municipalities spanning over a territory of 517.21 km2, with a population of 10.325 inhabitants. The density of its population is 20 people per km².

It borders the following counties in Tarragona province: Garrigues to the north, Conca de Barberà and Baix Camp to the east and Ribera d’Ebre to the south and west.
It forms a singular basin, that of the Siurana River.

The local language in Priorat is Catalan, the language that shares official status with Spanish in Catalonia.

The Catalan spoken in Priorat has dialectic traits that are particular to the eastern variation of this language, having more affinity with the western lands and Lleida than with the Tarragona countryside.