Metropolitan region of Basel

The Basel metropolitan region is one of five metropolitan regions in Switzerland defined by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO) . The other metropolitan regions are: Zurich , Geneva-Lausanne (Arc Lémanique) , Bern and Ticino .

According to the current census of 2000, 830,000 people live in the narrower trinational agglomeration of Basel, while the larger metropolitan region of Basel comprises around 1.3 million people in Switzerland, southwest Germany and eastern France according to the Federal Office for Spatial Development .

Economy and culture

The transnational metropolitan region of Basel is a trinational living and economic area. The research and economic area of life sciences (with international headquarters for the pharmaceutical and chemical industry), banks (Bank for International Settlements), transport and logistics (inland port in Switzerland), trade fairs ( Basel World , Art Basel ) and culture ( 3-divisional Theater , Beyeler Museum ), are particularly well represented in the area, also known as metrobasel. With the EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg, the region also has an airport that has grown significantly in recent years.

There are other terms for the urban area of Basel, namely RegioTriRhena , Trinationaler Eurodistrict Basel (TEB) and Trinational Agglomeration Basel (TAB). The RegioTriRhena, which is composed similarly to “metrobasel”, but extends further north (Germany and France), has 2.3 million inhabitants. From the perspective of the BaselArea.swiss location promotion, the cantons of Basel-Stadt , Basel-Landschaft and Jura also belong to the Basel region.