Padua metropolitan area

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The Padua metropolitan area is the urban agglomeration of the city of Padua in Veneto, Italy.

It has been constituted as Metropolitan conference of Padua [1] (act number 37 of 25 March 2003). It is not by now recognised by the Italian Republic among the città metropolitane (metropolitan cities) that will be instituted to replace province .

It is considered one of the main parts of the Venetian metropolitan area around Venice.

Metropolitan area

The Paduan metropolitan area is composed of the city of Padua and 15 towns from the Province of Padua, and one town from the Province of Venice, [2] for a total of 394,011 inhabitants at the 2001 census, on a surface of 375.94 km2, as shown in the following table [3] (all data are referred to 2001 census):

ProvinceTownSurface
(km2)
Population Veneto
Province of Padua Padua 92.85214,125
Abano Terme 21.5719,868
Albignasego 20.9926,006
Cadoneghe 12.8516,176
Casalserugo 15.525,525
Legnaro 14.898,594
Limena 15.047,912
Maserà di Padova 17.548,226
Mestrino 19.309,211
Noventa Padovana 7.1710,941
Ponte San Nicolò 13.5012,656
Rubano 14.5616,631
Saonara 13.5210,531
Selvazzano Dentro 19.5822,305
Vigodarzere 19.9113,066
Vigonza 33.3220,421
Villafranca Padovana 23.8310,545
Province of Venice Vigonovo 12.799,896
TOTAL (at 2021)375.94442,635

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