page_title: Barcelona metropolitan area
section_title: The Zones
hierarchical_section_title: Barcelona metropolitan area / The Zones
caption_attribution_description: Map of Barcelona Urban Region
context_page_description: The Barcelona urban area is an urban area in Catalonia, north of Spain and south of France, centered on the city of Barcelona. With a population of over 5 million, it's the most populous urban area on the Mediterranean coast, and one of the largest in Europe.
context_section_description: First Zone: consists of other municipalities (outside Barcelona) in an official union of adjacent cities and municipalities called the Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona (AMB) (also Greater Barcelona) with a population of 3,220,071 in area of 636 km² (density 5,010 hab/km²).
  Second Zone: considered as urban and metropolitan adjacent area.  It forms a belt of cities: Vilanova i la Geltrú, Vilafranca del Penedès, Martorell, Terrassa, Sabadell, Granollers, Mataró and their respective areas of influence. The Generalitat projects the interconnection by means the Orbital Railway Line.
  Third Zone: considered territory of consolidated expansion. In this one the expansion passes to be of radial type, spreading across fluvial corridors or depressions, as in case of Manresa, Igualada and Vic, or continuing the coast, as in case of Blanes and El Vendrell.
caption: Barcelona metropolitan area
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