When adding in the municipalities of Alcantarilla, Alguazas, Beniel, Molina de Segura, Santomera, and Las Torres de Cotillas, the metropolitan area has 564,036 inhabitants making it the twelfth most populous metropolitan area in Spain.
== Demografija ==Murcia ima 433.850 prebivalcev (INE 2008) in je sedma največja španska občin.