The Madrid Metropolitan Area (Spanish: Área metropolitana de Madrid) comprises the city of Madrid and forty surrounding municipalities. It has a population of slightly more than 6.4 million people and covers an area of 4.609,7 km². It is the largest metropolitan area in Spain and the third largest in European Union and the 45th largest in the world.
As with many metropolitan areas of similar size, two distinct zones of urbanisation can be disting...
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The Madrid Metropolitan Area (Spanish: Área metropolitana de Madrid) comprises the city of Madrid and forty surrounding municipalities. It has a population of slightly more than 6.4 million people and covers an area of 4.609,7 km². It is the largest metropolitan area in Spain and the third largest in European Union and the 45th largest in the world.
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.
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