Szczecin metropolitan area

Szczecin metropolitan area

Aglomeracja szczecińska
Szczecin metropolitan area Aglomeracja szczecińska
Urban area
	From top, left to right: Skyline of Szczecin; City Hall and Market Square in Stargard; Port of Szczecin; Stawa Młyny in Świnoujście; Medieval town walls in Gartz;
	Map of the Szczecin agglomeration (range of the agglomeration according to Swianiewicz) within Poland
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	West Pomeranian
Largest city	Szczecin
Area
• Metro	2,795 km2 (1,079 sq mi)
Population
• Metro	750,000
• Metro density	270/km2 (690/sq mi)
GDP
• Metro	€12.101 billion (2020)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Primary airport	Solidarity Szczecin–Goleniów Airport
Highways

The Szczecin metropolitan area is the urban agglomeration of the city of Szczecin and surrounding towns in the Polish-German border area.

The Larger Urban Zone defined by Eurostat includes 777,806 people living on 5249 km² in the area (2012). It includes the cities and towns of Stargard, Świnoujście, Police, Schwedt, Goleniów, Gryfino, Prenzlau, Pasewalk, Ueckermünde, Eggesin, Gartz, Stepnica, Penkun, Brüssow and Nowe Warpno. There are a group of villages situated between Szczecin and towns of the agglomeration. The villages of Mierzyn, Löcknitz, Przecław, Dobra, Trzebież and Kobylanka are parts of the urban system.

It is the second largest metropolitan area in Pomerania after the Tricity metropolitan area.

Since 2012, the agglomeration is actively developed as the core of a wider European metropolitan area, likely including the German districts of Mecklenburgische Seenplatte, Vorpommern-Greifswald, Uckermark and the West Pomeranian districts neighbouring Szczecin in Poland.

The German part of the Szczecin metropolitan area contains municipalities with some of the highest percentages of Polish residents in Germany, such as Gartz, Löcknitz and Mescherin.