Barcelona metropolitan area

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This article is about the metropolitan area. For the administrative area, see Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona (AMB).
Barcelona metropolitan area
Àrea metropolitana de Barcelona
—  Metropolitan area  —
Country Spain
Region Catalonia
City Barcelona
Area
 • Metro 4,000 km2 (1,544.409 sq mi)
Population
 • Metro 5,000,000 increase
 • Metro density 1,250/km2 (3,200/sq mi)
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
GDP 2008
Nominal $177 billion (4th in EU)

The Barcelona metropolitan area (Catalan: Àrea metropolitana de Barcelona, Spanish: Área metropolitana de Barcelona) is a metropolitan area in Catalonia, north of Spain, centered on the city of Barcelona. With a population of around 5 million, it is the second most populous metropolitan area on the Mediterranean coast after Alexandria, and one of the biggest metropolises in Europe.

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[edit] Overview

The urban area—core of metropolitan area—of Barcelona has a population of 4,210,000[1] being the sixth-most populous urban area in the European Union after Paris, London, Ruhr area, Madrid and Milan. The Larger Urban Zone has a population of 4,440,629[2] according to Eurostat.

As stated by the Department of Economic and Social Affairs—United Nations, the metropolitan area of Barcelona has a population of 5,083,000.[3] According to Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has a population of 4,900,000[4] and according to Idescat has a population of 5,029,181.[5]

[edit] The Zones

Barcelona metropolitan area
Population Area(km2) Density
Barcelona 1.621.537 101 15.793
First Zone 1.598.534 532 2.923
Second Zone 1.481.937 1.362 1.070
Third Zone 747.810 2.273 329
5.355.127 4.268 1.255
  • First Zone: consists of other municipalities (outside Bercelona) in an official union of adjacent cities and municipalities called the Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona (AMB) (also Greater Barcelona) with a population of 3,220,071 in area of 636 km2 (density 5.010 hab/km2).

[edit] Polynuclear Urban Region

P.U.R. of Barcelona
Population Area(km2) Density
Barcelona metro 5.355.127 4.268 1.255
Tarragona Area 411.876 656 628
Girona Area 336.218 1.081 311
6.103.221 6.005 1.016

According to the EURBANET project by Delft University of Technology[6] it speaks about polynuclear urban region when there exists a series of important urban centers that relate intensely among them and to the exterior. This one is the case of bordering zones to the urban region that they extend around the cities of Tarragona and Girona. They are areas with a great economic dependence and services to the capital. They are narrow corridors well communicated to Barcelona, both by highway and railroad, which there fuse the metropolitan areas of these cities with the urban region. The PUR of Barcelona would rely on so 6.103.221 people in an area of 6.005 km 2.

Barcelona Polynuclear Urban Region is conceived as "isolated islands of significant growth" which, may develop into zones of global economic integration. This is, however, not intended to happen at the cost of the global competitive position of the present core area.[7]

[edit] Municipalities of metropolitan area - population and area

[edit] First zone

       

[edit] Second zone

       

[edit] Third zone

       

[edit] Municipalities of Polynuclear Urban Region - population and area

[edit] Tarragona area

       

[edit] Girona area

       

[edit] See also

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