The Madrid Metropolitan Area (Spanish: Área metropolitana de Madrid) comprises the city of Madrid and forty surrounding municipalities. It has a population of slightly more than 5.8 million people and covers an area of 4.609,7 km². It is the largest metropolitan area in Spain and the third largest in European Union[1][2][3][4] and the 45th largest in the world.
As with many metropolitan areas of similar size, two distinct zones of urbanisation can be distinguished:
- Inner ring (primera corona): Alcorcón, Leganés, Getafe, Móstoles, Fuenlabrada, Coslada, Alcobendas, Pozuelo de Alarcón, San Fernando de Henares
- Outer ring (segunda corona): Villaviciosa de Odón, Parla, Pinto, Valdemoro, Rivas-Vaciamadrid, Torrejón de Ardoz, Alcalá de Henares, San Sebastián de los Reyes, Tres Cantos, Las Rozas de Madrid, Majadahonda, Boadilla del Monte
The largest suburbs are to the South, and in general along the main routes leading out of Madrid.
Submetropolitan areas
A new project, has stated there are more submetropolitan areas inside Madrid metropolitan area:
|
|
(km²) |
(pop.) |
(pop./km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Madrid - Majadahonda | 996.1 | 3,580,828 | 3,595.0 |
| Móstoles | 315.1 | 430,349 | 1,365.6 |
| Fuenlabrada - Leganés - Getafe - Parla - Pinto - Valdemoro | 931.7 | 822,806 | 883.1 |
| Alcobendas | 266.4 | 205,905 | 772.9 |
| Arganda del Rey - Rivas-Vaciamadrid | 343.6 | 115,344 | 335.7 |
| Alcalá de Henares - Torrejón de Ardoz | 514.6 | 360,380 | 700.3 |
| Colmenar Viejo - Tres Cantos | 419.1 | 104,650 | 249.7 |
| Collado Villalba | 823.1 | 222,769 | 270.6 |
| Madrid metropolitan area | 4,609.7 | 5,843,031 | 1,267.6 |
References
- (Spanish) AUDES5 project.
- ^ "World Urban Areas: Population & Density" (PDF). Demographia. http://www.demographia.com/db-worldua.pdf. Retrieved 2008-08-10.
- ^ Eurostat, Urban Audit database, accessed on 2009-03-12. Data for 2004.
- ^ Thomas Brinkoff, Principal Agglomerations of the World, accessed on 2009-03-12. Data for 2009-01-01.
- ^ United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, World Urbanization Prospects (2007 revision), (United Nations, 2008), Table A.12. Data for 2007.
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