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This is a list of the largest metropolitan areas in Spain by population. Infographic based on Corinne Land Cover 2018. IGN. Estimates are from the following sources: the "Functional Urban Areas" (FUAs) of the Study on Urban Functions of the European Spatial Planning Observation Network (ESPON, 2007) [1]
Barcelona remained the second largest city in Spain, at the heart of a region which was relatively industrialized and prosperous, despite the devastation of the civil war. The result was a large-scale immigration from poorer regions of Spain (particularly Andalusia, Murcia and Galicia), which in turn led to rapid urbanization.
It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and its monocentric metropolitan area is the second-largest in the EU. [2] [11] [12] The municipality covers 604.3 km 2 (233.3 sq mi) geographical area. [13] Madrid lies on the River Manzanares in the central part of the Iberian Peninsula at about 650 meters above mean sea level.
The capital and largest city, Barcelona, is the second-most populous municipality in Spain and the fifth-most populous urban area in the European Union. [12] Modern-day Catalonia comprises most of the medieval and early modern Principality of Catalonia (with the remainder northern area now part of France's Pyrénées-Orientales).
Municipalities of Spain. 2004 Madrid, capital of Spain Barcelona Valencia Seville Zaragoza Málaga Murcia Palma Las Palmas Bilbao Alicante Córdoba Valladolid Vigo Gijón L'Hospitalet de Llobregat A Coruña Vitoria-Gasteiz Granada Elche Santa Cruz de Tenerife Oviedo Badalona Terrassa. This article includes several ranked indicators for Spain's ...
Largest cities or towns in Spain. Instituto Nacional de Estadística. Rank Name Autonomous community Pop. Rank Name Autonomous community Pop. Madrid Barcelona: 1: Madrid:
The cities listed all have populations over 300,000. The list deals exclusively with the areas within city administrative boundaries as opposed to urban areas or larger urban zones (metropolitan areas), which are generally larger in terms of population than the main city (although they can also be smaller).
Thus, the city's population density was about 5,337 inhabitants per km 2. Madrid is Spain's largest city and the second most populous city proper in the European Union, after Berlin . Historical change