Metropolitan City of Naples

Metropolitan City of Naples
Metropolitan City of Naples
Metropolitan City
	Areal view of the metropolitan area of Naples
	Coat of arms
Country	Italy
Region	Campania
Established	1 January 2015
Capital(s)	Naples
Comuni	92
Government
• Mayor	Luigi de Magistris
Area
• Total	1,171 km2 (452 sq mi)
Population (2014)
• Total	3,128,700
• Density	2,700/km2 (6,900/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
ISTAT	263
Website	www.cittametropolitana.na.it

The Metropolitan City of Naples (Italian: Città metropolitana di Napoli) is an Italian Metropolitan City in Campania region, established on January 1, 2015. Its capital city is Naples; within the city there are 92 municipalities.^[2]^[3] It was first created by the reform of local authorities (Law 142/1990) and then established by the Law 56/2014.

The Metropolitan City of Naples is headed by the Metropolitan Mayor (Sindaco metropolitano) and by the Metropolitan Council (Consiglio metropolitano). Since 1 January 2015 Luigi de Magistris, as mayor of the capital city.

Metropolitan area

Naples urban area and metropolitan area is second the most populous in Italy, after Milan. The urban area — core of metropolitan area — has a population of 3,020,000^[4] being the 10th-most populous urban area in the European Union. According to European Spatial Planning Observation Network, Naples polycentric metropolitan area has a population of 3,714,000.^[5] According to The Principal Agglomerations of the World - Population Statistics and Maps by Citypopulation.de, Naples urban agglomeration has a population of 4,150,000.^[6] According to Associazione per lo sviluppo dell'industria nel Mezzogiorno (SVIMEZ), Naples metropolitan area has a population of 4,434,136 on area of 2,300 km².^[7]

Demography and territory

The metropolitan city of Naples has some peculiarities that distinguish it clearly from other metropolitan cities Italian: besides having a vulnerable seismic and volcanic activity, due to the presence of Vesuvius and Campi Flegrei, its territory occupies only 8.6% the surface of the Campania (13,590 km²), and in it is concentrated more than half of the entire regional population. This phenomenon of overcrowding has created a strong demographic imbalance and territorial with the four provinces in Campania.

To get a clearer idea of its territorial limits, just consider that the Neapolitan area is to 96º place on 110 Italian provinces by extension. Its area, 1,171 km² including islands, in fact it is smaller than the surface of the only town of Rome (1,287 km²).

The substrate of the municipalities varies widely, ranging from 1.62 to 117.27 km² of Casavatore km² of capital; 60% of the municipalities are small (less than or equal to 10 km²), 36% of medium-sized (> 10 km² and ≤ 25 km²), the rest (11%) more than 25 km² and, of this, only two municipalities (Acerra and Giugliano) are between 50 and 100 km² and only the municipality of Naples exceeds 100 km².

The population density of the metropolitan city amounted to 2,672 inhabitants / km², 12 metropolitan municipalities exceeding 50,000 inhabitants, in the list of the top 60 Italian municipalities that it includes three of the Neapolitan: Giugliano, Torre del Greco and Pozzuoli, while Casavatore is the first common in Italy for population density with 12,000 inhabitants. / Km², followed by Portici. Last Ptcp (Provincial Territorial Coordination Plan) showed that the urbanized area is equal to a total of 381.12 km² corresponding to 32.54% of the total area of the territory, it follows an effective framework to densely populated real climbing to more 8,000 inhabitants / km²

At present it is very difficult to distinguish the boundary line between the mother city, adjoining areas and hinterland, completely welded together into one agglomeratourbano seamlessly, both in the vast area north (Giugliano, Afragola, Acerra and Nola) and in the Flegrea, Vesuvius and Stabia-Sorrento.

Municipalities of the metropolitan city of Naples

References

^ codes of metropolitan cities from January 2015 - istat.it
^ Craveri, Pietro (February 17, 2015). "Città metropolitana, lo statuto è di là da venire". Retrieved 25 February 2015.
^ Upinet.it
^ Demographia: World Urban Areas
^ Study on Urban Functions - European Spatial Planning Observation Network, 2007
^ Principal Agglomerations of the World - Citypopulation.de
^ Documenti e Studi per una definizione dell'area Metropolitana di Napoli - Arch. Domenico Smarrazzo - area metropolitana di Napoli, 1997

External links

Official website

References

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[1] s of metropolitan cities from January 2015 - istat.it

[2] Craveri, Pietro (February 17, 2015). "Città metropolitana, lo statuto è di là da venire". Retrieved 25 February 2015.

[3] Upinet.it

[4] Demographia: World Urban Areas

[5] Study on Urban Functions - European Spatial Planning Observation Network, 2007

[6] Principal Agglomerations of the World - Citypopulation.de

[7] Documenti e Studi per una definizione dell'area Metropolitana di Napoli - Arch. Domenico Smarrazzo - area metropolitana di Napoli, 1997

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