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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]
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 ...
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 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).
Rank Name Autonomous community Pop. Rank Name Autonomous community Pop. Madrid Barcelona: 1: Madrid: Community of Madrid: 3,332,035: 11: Bilbao: Basque Country: 346,096
These 50 cities have a combined population of 17.5 million, or 37% of the national population. The breakdown of mayoral political parties is 30 from the People's Party , 14 from the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party and the Socialists' Party of Catalonia , and 6 from local or regional political parties.
According to the issue 39 of the Economic Barometer of the City of Madrid, which divides a Madrid "metropolitan region" in 5 areas, the 3rd area exceeds the administrative limits of the Community of Madrid. [6] The largest suburbs are to the south, and in general along the main motorways leading out of Madrid.
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.