The Madrid metropolitan area is a monocentric metropolitan area in the centre of the Iberian peninsula, around the
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality'' may also mean the g ...
of
Madrid
Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and ...
, Spain. It is not related to any sort of administrative delimitation, and thus, its limits are ambiguous.
According to ''Populationdata.net'' it has an estimated 2017 population of 6,321,398 people and covers an area of . It is considered the largest
metropolitan area
A metropolitan area or metro is a region that consists of a densely populated urban area, urban agglomeration and its surrounding territories sharing Industry (economics), industries, commercial areas, Transport infrastructure, transport net ...
in
Spain
, image_flag = Bandera de España.svg
, image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg
, national_motto = '' Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond")
, national_anthem = (English: "Royal March")
, ...
, the
2nd largest in the
European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of and an estimated total population of about 447million. The EU has often been ...
and the
54th largest in the world.
Two distinct zones of urbanisation can be distinguished extending further than the municipality of Madrid:
* Inner ring ():
Alcorcón,
Leganés,
Getafe,
Móstoles
Móstoles () is a municipality of Spain located in the Community of Madrid. With over 200,000 inhabitants, it is the region's second most populated municipality after Madrid. Móstoles was a small town for a long time, but expanded rapidly in the ...
,
Fuenlabrada,
Coslada
Coslada () is a city and municipality in the autonomous community of Madrid in central Spain.
The is located in Coslada, which has become a major logistics hub in the country. Due to the area's close proximity to the Madrid–Barajas Airport ...
,
Alcobendas,
Pozuelo de Alarcón
Pozuelo de Alarcón () is a municipality in the Community of Madrid, Spain. Bordering the Moncloa-Aravaca district of Madrid proper to its west, Pozuelo de Alarcón is surrounded by large Mediterranean pine-tree forests: the Casa de Campo, the ...
,
San Fernando de Henares
* Outer ring ():
Villaviciosa de Odón,
Parla,
Pinto,
Valdemoro,
Rivas-Vaciamadrid,
Torrejón de Ardoz
Torrejón de Ardoz () is a municipality of Spain belonging to the Community of Madrid.
The European Union Satellite Centre (SatCen), an agency of the European Union, is located in Torrejón de Ardoz. It is also the location of the headquarters ...
,
Alcalá de Henares
Alcalá de Henares () is a Spanish city in the Community of Madrid. Straddling the Henares River, it is located to the northeast of the centre of Madrid. , it has a population of 193,751, making it the region's third-most populated municipality. ...
,
San Sebastián de los Reyes
San Sebastián de los Reyes (colloquially called "Sanse") is a municipality in the Community of Madrid, Spain. Founded in 1492, it is located north of Madrid.
Geography
It forms an urban continuum with the neighboring Alcobendas,
Transpor ...
,
Tres Cantos,
Las Rozas de Madrid,
Majadahonda,
Boadilla del Monte
Boadilla del Monte () is a Spanish town and municipality located in the west of the Community of Madrid, inside its metropolitan area. It has the second highest level of income per capita in all of the country of Spain. In 2017, it had a popula ...
,
Collado Villalba.
The largest
suburb
A suburb (more broadly suburban area) is an area within a metropolitan area, which may include commercial and mixed-use, that is primarily a residential area. A suburb can exist either as part of a larger city/urban area or as a separat ...
s are to the south, and in general along the main routes leading out of Madrid.
The GDP of the metropolitan area of Madrid was estimated to be 189 billion euros in 2009 and represents over 90% of the GDP of the
region of Madrid.
[http://www.madrid.org/iestadis/fijas/estructu/economicas/contabilidad/descarga/ipibmt1.xls] The GDP per capita was 37,758 euros in the metropolitan area while it reached 30,453 euros for the
Madrid region.
In regard to the Madrid
functional urban area
The larger urban zone (LUZ), or functional urban area (FUA), is a measure of the population and expanse of metropolitan and surrounding areas which may or may not be exclusively urban. It consists of a city and its commuting zone outside it.
The ...
(FUA), that is, the wider commuting zone, the territory has experienced by the turn of the 21st century an increase of extensive suburbanisation with a larger share of inhabitants living more than 25km away from the functional urban centre as well as the deepening of the traditional NW-SE
socio-spatial segregation pattern.
Another challenge is the lack of
environmental sustainability of the current mobility model.
See also
*
Community of Madrid
References
AUDES5 project.
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Geography of the Community of Madrid
Metropolitan areas of Spain