Milan metropolitan area

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Milan metropolitan area
Area metropolitana di Milano
Metropolitan area
Milan Porta Nuova business district by night.jpg
Milan, the most populated city in metropolitan area
Milan metropolitan area
Milan metropolitan area, as identified by Eurostat and OECD
CountryFlag of Italy.svg  Italy
Largest city Milan (1,371,498)
Area
  Metro
3,632 km2 (1,402 sq mi)
Population
[1]
   Metro
6,100,000
  Metro density1,679/km2 (4,350/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
The Milan metropolitan area as seen from the International Space Station (North roughly on the top side) Milan at Night.JPG
The Milan metropolitan area as seen from the International Space Station (North roughly on the top side)

The Milan metropolitan area, also known as Grande Milano ("Greater Milan"), is the largest metropolitan area in Italy and the 54th largest in the world. It is the largest transnational metropolitan area [ clarification needed ] in the EU. [2] The metropolitan area described in this article is strictly statistical and, contrary to the administrative Metropolitan City of Milan, a provincial-level municipality, does not imply any kind of administrative unity or function.

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Definition

Given the absence of an official statistical definition for the metropolitan area of Milan, tracing precise boundaries is a somewhat slippery issue. However, during the last decade, a number of studies have been carried out on the subject by some authoritative institutions and scholars, notably the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and numerous Italian sources that build a definition based on commuting fluxes and on the concentration of commercial, leisure and public utility services. A broad consensus exists upon a definition that includes the central Lombard provinces of Milan, Bergamo, Como, Lecco, Lodi, Monza and Brianza, Pavia, Varese and the Piedmontese Province of Novara, while some scholars include also the Province of Cremona and Brescia in Lombardy, the Piemontese Province of Alessandria and the Emilian Province of Piacenza. The overall population under the narrowest definition is about 9 million[ failed verification ] over an area of about 13,000 km2 (5,000 sq mi). [3] [4] [5] [6]

Provinces in the Milan metro areaArea
(km2)
2001
Population [7]
2011
Population [7]
2019
Population [8]
 % change
(2011 to 2019)
GDP (USD Mn, 2016) [9]
Milan 1,575.652,938,5563,038,4203,259,835+7.29%202,971
Bergamo 2,745.94973,5591,086,2771,114,365+2.59%41,945
Varese 1,198.11812,934871,886890,768+2.17%30,812
Monza 405.41766,767840,129873,935+4.02%31,972
Como 1,279.04537,853586,735599,204+2.13%19,892
Pavia 2,968.64493,829535,822545,888+1.88%15,696
Novara 1,340.28343,097365,559368,597+0.83%12,938
Lecco 814.58311,637336,310337,380+0.32%12,142
Lodi 782.99198,020223,755230,198+2.88%7,229
Total13,110.647,376,2427,884,8938,220,170+4.25%375,597

Largest cities

Monza Monza panorama.jpg
Monza
Bergamo Sunrise at Bergamo old town, Lombardy, Italy.jpg
Bergamo
Novara Novara panorama11.jpg
Novara

The following is a list of the twenty largest cities in the Milan metropolitan area as ranked by population.

RankCityProvince2001
population [7]
2011
population [7]
2017
population [10]
% change
(2011 to 2017)
1 Milan Milan1,256,2111,242,1231,351,562+8.81%
2 Monza Monza120,104119,856122,955+2.59%
3 Bergamo Bergamo112,864115,349120,287+4.28%
4 Novara Novara100,939101,952104,165+2.17%
5 Como Como78,54682,04584,326+2.78%
6 Busto Arsizio Varese75,86679,69283,340+4.58%
7 Sesto San Giovanni Milan78,83176,51481,822+6.94%
8 Varese Varese80,49279,79380,694+1.13%
9 Cinisello Balsamo Milan71,92471,12875,659+6.37%
10 Pavia Pavia71,36668,28072,612+6.34%
11 Vigevano Pavia57,44460,10963,505+5.65%
12 Legnano Milan53,80957,64760,259+4.53%
13 Gallarate Varese46,46150,45653,145+5.33%
14 Rho Milan50,45150,05250,767+1.43%
15 Lecco Lecco45,51346,70548,131+3.05%
16 Cologno Monzese Milan48,27045,78647,751+4.29%
17 Paderno Dugnano Milan45,43946,56246,590+0.06%
18 Lodi Lodi40,89443,33245,212+4.34%
19 Lissone Monza34,48242,22045,233+7.14%
20 Seregno Monza39,17143,00144,962+4.56%

See also

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