Bucharest metropolitan area
Bucharest Metropolitan Area | |
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Metropolitan area | |
Bucharest skyline | |
Bucharest (in red) and Ilfov county (in orange) | |
| Country | Romania |
| County | Ilfov, Călărași, Ialomița, Dâmbovița, Giurgiu |
| Largest city | Bucharest |
| Component localities | 40 (first stage) 62 (intermediate stage) |
| Functional | 2016-2017 |
| Area (first stage) | |
• Total | 2,011 km2 (776 sq mi) |
| Population (2011 census) | |
• Total | 2,402,163 (first stage) |
| • Density | 1,200/km2 (3,000/sq mi) |
| GDP | |
| • Total | US$103.377 billion (2023) |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Postal Code | 0 S NNNN1 |
| Area code | +40 x12 |
| Website | BMA official site |
| 1S is the number of the Sector, and NNNN is used to differentiate between streets and/or subzones. 2x is a digit indicating the operator: 2 for the former national operator, Romtelecom, and 3 for the other ground telephone networks. | |
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The Bucharest Metropolitan Area (Romanian: Zona Metropolitană București) is a metropolitan area project formally established since 2016 that includes Bucharest, the capital city of Romania, and surrounding communes. If completed, it would have a population of about 2.4 million, only slightly larger than that of the city proper (2,0 million). It would also be a member of the METREX network.
According to Eurostat, Bucharest has a functional urban area of 2,412,530 residents (as of 2015).