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Population: 1,620,943. 2012 – 11 September: 2012 Catalan independence demonstration. [27] 2015 1 April: Barcelona Supercomputing Center established. 20 April: Barcelona school killing. 24 May: Barcelona City Council election, 2015 held; Ada Colau elected mayor. [35] 2016 Barcelona Metro line 9 connecting to the airport finished. 2017
First Zone: consists of other municipalities (outside Barcelona) 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 km 2 (density 5,010 hab/km 2). Second Zone: considered as urban and metropolitan adjacent area.
Barcelona is served by Barcelona-El Prat Airport, about 17 km (11 mi) south-west of the centre of Barcelona. It is the second-largest airport in Spain, and the largest on the Mediterranean coast, which handled more than 50.17 million passengers in 2018, showing an annual upward trend. [ 156 ]
Some large urban areas, for example Barcelona, consist of more than one municipality, each of which previously held a separate settlement. The Catalan government encourages mergers of very small municipalities; its "Report on the revision of Catalonia's territorial organisation model" (the " Roca Report [ ca ] "), published in 2000 but not yet ...
The population of Spain doubled during the twentieth century as a result of the demographic boom in the 1960s and early 1970s. After that time, the birth rate fell during the 1980s and Spain's population growth stalled. Many demographers have linked Spain's very low fertility rate to the country's lack of a family support policy.
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Demonstration on 8 October 2017. On 8 October 2017, Societat Civil Catalana gathered over a million people according to the organizers and the Spanish government and 350,000 people according to Barcelona police, in a rally against Catalan independence. To date this event was the largest pro-Constitution and anti-independence demonstration in ...