Madrid metropolitan area

The Madrid metropolitan area is a monocentric metropolitan area in the centre of the Iberian peninsula, around the city of Madrid, Spain. It is not related to any sort of administrative delimitation, and thus, its limits are ambiguous.

Madrid and surroundings

According to Populationdata.net it has an estimated 2017 population of 6,321,398 people[1] and covers an area of 5,335.97 square kilometres (2,060.23 sq mi). It is considered the largest metropolitan area in Spain, the 3rd largest in the European Union and the 54th largest in the world.[2][3][4][5]

As with many metropolitan areas of similar size, two distinct zones of urbanisation can be distinguished:

The largest suburbs are to the south, and in general along the main routes leading out of Madrid.

The GDP of the metropolitan area of Madrid was estimated to be 189 billion euros in 2009 and represents over 90% of the GDP of the region of Madrid.[6] The GDP per capita was 37,758 euros in the metropolitan area while it reached 30,453 euros for the Madrid region.

Demographics
Rank Municipality Population (2019)[7] Area
km²
1 Madrid 3,266,126 604.3
2 Móstoles 209,184 45
3 Alcalá de Henares 195,649 88
4 Fuenlabrada 193,700 39.1
5 Leganés 189,861 43.1
6 Getafe 183,374 78.7
7 Alcorcón 170,514 33.7
8 Torrejón de Ardoz 131,376 32.6
9 Parla 130,124 24.4
10 Alcobendas 117,040 45
11 Las Rozas de Madrid 95,814 58.3
12 San Sebastián de los Reyes 89,276 58.7
13 Rivas-Vaciamadrid 88,150 67.4
14 Pozuelo de Alarcón 86,422 43.2
15 Coslada 81,661 12
16 Valdemoro 75,983 64.5
17 Majadahonda 71,826 38.5
18 Arganda del Rey 55,389 79.7
19 Boadilla del Monte 54,570 47.2
20 Pinto 52,526 62.2
21 Colmenar Viejo 50,752 182.6
22 Tres Cantos 47,722 38
23 San Fernando de Henares 39,431 38.8
24 Arroyomolinos 31,396 20.7
25 Navalcarnero 29,298 100.2
26 Villaviciosa de Odón 27,835 68.1
27 Paracuellos de Jarama 25,269 17
28 Ciempozuelos 24,592 49.6
29 Mejorada del Campo 23,274 17.2

See also

References
  1. PopulationData.net – Spain
  2. "World Urban Areas: Population & Density" (PDF). Demographia. Retrieved 2008-08-10.
  3. Eurostat, Urban Audit database Archived 2011-04-06 at the Wayback Machine, accessed on 2009-03-12. Data for 2004.
  4. Thomas Brinkoff, Principal Agglomerations of the World, accessed on 2009-03-12. Data for 2009-01-01.
  5. United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, World Urbanisation Prospects (2007 revision), (United Nations, 2008), Table A.12. Data for 2007.
  6. (in Spanish)http://www.madrid.org/iestadis/fijas/estructu/economicas/contabilidad/descarga/ipibmt1.xls
  7. "Cifras oficiales de población resultantes de la revisión del Padrón municipal a 1 de enero". Instituto Nacional de Estadistica. Retrieved March 30, 2020.

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