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The headquarters of the metropolitan area are located in Avenida dos Aliados. The metropolitan area is governed by the Junta Metropolitana do Porto (JMP), headquartered in Avenida dos Aliados, in downtown Porto under the presidency of Hermínio Loureiro, also the mayor of Oliveira de Azeméis municipality, since the Municipal Elections held in 2013, when he succeeded Rui Rio, mayor of Porto.
The metropolitan area (Portuguese: área metropolitana) is a type of administrative division in Portugal. Since the 2013 local government reform, there are two metropolitan areas: Lisbon and Porto. [1] The metropolitan areas of Lisbon and Porto were created in 1991. [2]
Its main population center is the urban area of Porto, with about one million inhabitants; it includes a larger political metropolitan region with 1.8 million, and an urban-metropolitan agglomeration with 2.99 million inhabitants, including Porto and neighboring cities, such as Braga, Guimarães and Póvoa de Varzim. The Commission of Regional ...
A fifth line was inaugurated in September 2009, Leixões line, connecting Porto to Leixões. [7] This line closed again in 2011. In 2018, a study was launched into a new 36.5 km rail line branching from Valongo on the Linha de Caide to Felgueiras, with an expectedly cost of €300 million.
In 1997, Cebu created the Metropolitan Cebu Development Council (MCDC), which was renamed the Metropolitan Cebu Development and Coordinating Board (MCDCB) in 2011. In 2022, Baguio [12] and Davao created their own metropolitan boards. Other proposed metropolitan boards include ones for Bulacan and Bataan.
[1] [10] Porto's metropolitan area has around 1.8 million people (2023) [1] in an area of 2,395 km 2 (925 sq mi), [11] making it the second-largest urban area in Portugal. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] [ 14 ] It is recognized as a global city with a Gamma + rating from the Globalization and World Cities Research Network .
The Porto metropolitan area (Área Metropolitana do Porto), consisting of 17 municipalities with a total population (2011 census) of 1,759,524 (Other cities have metropolitan areas as defined by commuting patterns, but do not have the same legal status and are all under 1 million inhabitants.)
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