Madrid metropolitan area

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Satellite view of Madrid and surroundings

The Madrid metropolitan area is a monocentric metropolitan area in the centre of the Iberian peninsula, around the

municipality of Madrid
, Spain. It is not related to any sort of administrative delimitation, and thus, its limits are ambiguous.

According to data from the

Two distinct zones of urbanisation can be distinguished extending further than the municipality of Madrid:

The largest suburbs 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.[6] The GDP per capita was 37,758 euros in the metropolitan area while it reached 30,453 euros for the Madrid region, the Community of Madrid.

In regard to the Madrid

environmental sustainability of the current mobility model.[7]

References

  1. ^ OECD-OCDE – Spain
  2. ^ "World Urban Areas: Population & Density" (PDF). Demographia. Retrieved 2008-08-10.
  3. ^ Eurostat, Urban Audit database Archived 2011-04-06 at the Wayback Machine, accessed on 2009-03-12. Data for 2004.
  4. ^ Thomas Brinkoff, Principal Agglomerations of the World, accessed on 2009-03-12. Data for 2009-01-01.
  5. ^ United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, World Urbanisation Prospects (2007 revision), (United Nations, 2008), Table A.12. Data for 2007.
  6. ^ (in Spanish)http://www.madrid.org/iestadis/fijas/estructu/economicas/contabilidad/descarga/ipibmt1.xls
  7. ^ .