Iași metropolitan area
Iași metropolitan area | |
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Metropolitan area | |
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| Coordinates: 47°9′44″N 27°35′20″E / 47.16222°N 27.58889°E | |
| Country |  Romania |
| County | Iași |
| Central Municipality | Iași |
| Functional | 2004 |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1,159 km2 (447 sq mi) |
| Population (2021 census)[1] | |
| • Total | 423,154 |
| • Density | 366/km2 (950/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Postal Code | 70wxyz[a] |
| Area code | +40 x32[b] |
| Website | http://www.zmi.ro/ |
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The Iași metropolitan area is a metropolitan association in Iași County, Romania. It consists of the municipality of Iași and 19 nearby communes.
Geography
[edit]With an area of 1,159 square kilometres (447 sq mi), the Iași metropolitan area occupies 21.2% of Iași County's total area of 5,476 square kilometres (2,114 sq mi).
History
[edit]Iași metropolitan area was constituted on 8 April 2004, to create a better business environment, to attract more consistent investments and to better coordinate environmental and infrastructure projects.[citation needed]
Demographics
[edit]Per the 2021 census, the Iași metropolitan area has 423,154 inhabitants, 55.6% of Iași County's total population of 760,774.[1]
As defined by Eurostat, with 500,668 residents (as of 2018[update]), the Iași functional urban area is the second most populous in Romania (after Bucharest).[2]
| Population census | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | 2002 | 2011 | 2021 |
| Pop. | 422,770 | 403,572 | 423,154 |
| ±% | — | −4.5% | +4.9% |
| Source: [1][3] | |||
Transportation
[edit]Iași is served by Iași International Airport.
Major roads in Iași are national roads DN24 and DN28, which are both part of European routes E58 and E583. CTP Iași offers transport services for the Iași Metropolitan Public Transport Association (Asociația Metropolitană de Transport Public Iași; AMTPI).[4]
Communities
[edit]Cities
[edit]Communes
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Population at 2021 Census" (in Romanian). INSSE. 31 May 2023.
- ^ "Population on 1 January by age groups and sex - functional urban areas". Eurostat. Retrieved 7 October 2020.
- ^ "Population at 20 October 2011" (in Romanian). INSSE. 5 July 2013.
- ^ "Transportul metropolitan IAȘI este funcțional! Vezi care sunt traseele și tarifele". infoiasionline.ro (in Romanian). 2023-01-03.
External links
[edit]- Official site Archived 2010-10-17 at the Wayback Machine
- Population of the Iași metropolitan area: volume, structures and demographic processes
- Iași Metropolitan Public Transport Association official website
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