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Barcelona's population peaked in 1979 at 1,906,998, and fell throughout the 1980s and 1990s as more people sought a higher quality of life in outlying cities in the Barcelona Metropolitan Area. After bottoming out in 2000 with 1,496,266 residents, the city's population began to rise again as younger people started to return, causing a great ...
As stated by the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of United Nations, the metropolitan area of Barcelona has a population of 5,083,000, [4] according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development it has a population of 4,900,000 [5] and according to the Eurostat it has a population of 5,375,774. [6]
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 ...
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
The capital of the province is the city of Barcelona, and the provincial council is based in the Casa Serra on the Rambla de Catalunya in that city. Some other cities and towns in Barcelona province include L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Badalona, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Martorell, Mataró, Granollers, Sabadell, Terrassa, Sitges, Igualada, Vic, Manresa, and Berga.
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]
This is a list of lists of the municipalities of Spain. The municipalities list links are listed below, by autonomous community and province . In 2022, there were a total of 8,131 municipalities in Spain, including the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla *. [ 1 ]
The Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona (AMB; English: Metropolitan Area of Barcelona) is a public body operating on the principle of metropolitan authority. It is composed of representatives of Barcelona and 36 adjacent municipalities accounting for a population of 3,239,337 ( Idescat , 2014) within an area of 636 km 2 .