Metropolitan Area of ​​Thessaloniki

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The Metropolitan Area of ​​Thessaloniki is a metropolitan area in northern Greece in the Central Macedonia region . After the metropolitan area of Attica , which includes Athens , it is the second largest metropolitan area or urban agglomeration in Greece.

It is composed of its center, the city or the municipality of Thessaloniki , and the surrounding municipalities, which all belong to the regional district of Thessaloniki . The metropolitan area of ​​Thessaloniki extends in the northwest, north, northeast, east, southeast, south and southwest around the city of Thessaloniki. The Thermaic Gulf limits the extension of the metropolitan region to the west . In the east and south-east the mountain range of the Chortiatis limits the extent.

Traditionally, the metropolitan region of Thessaloniki was only understood as the area of ​​the city of Thessaloniki and the immediately adjacent 12 urban and rural communities.

In 1913, Thessaloniki had 157,889 inhabitants. In 1961 the settlement complex and thus the metropolitan region of Thessaloniki comprised 380,648 inhabitants, in 1971 557,360 inhabitants. In 1971, the Thessaloniki Metropolitan Area consisted of the Municipality of Thessaloniki, five other municipalities and nine rural municipalities. Since the mid-1990s, the Thessaloniki metropolitan area has been exposed to a strong trend towards urban sprawl : communities and settlements that were previously rural have developed and continue to develop in suburbs and dormitory cities. Eleven further urban and rural communities in the Thessaloniki metropolitan area were added to the 13 original ones.

In the area of ​​the former municipality of Mikra (in the southwest of Thessaloniki) is also the international airport of Thessaloniki .

List of municipalities in the metropolitan area

In the course of the administrative reform in 2010 , numerous municipalities in Greece were merged, the old municipalities have since formed their municipal districts. In 2014 the entire regional district designated itself as the 'Metropolitan District of Thessaloniki' (Mitroppolitiki Enotita Thessalonikis).

Location in Central Macedonia: municipality , metropolitan area , metropolitan area and regional district of Thessaloniki
 

local community Residents 2011 Area in km² Ew./km²
Neapoli-Sykies 84,741 12,903 6,567
Ambelokipi-Menemeni 52.127 9.792 5,323
Pavlos Melas 99.245 23.763 4.176
Kordelio Evosmos 101,753 13,358 7,617
Calamaria 91,279 6.401 14,260
Pylea Chortiatis 70.110 242,958 288
Thessaloniki 325.182 19.292 16,855
City region as a whole 824.319 328,467 2509
delta 45,839 311.094 147
Thermaikos 50.264 133.410 376
Oreokastro 38,317 139.393 274
Thermi 53,201 382.106 139
Metropolitan area as a whole 1,011,940 1,294,470 781

Individual evidence

  1. Franz Ronneberger, Georg Mergl: social structure. In: Klaus-Detlev Grothusen (Ed.): Greece. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1980, ISBN 3-525-36202-1 , p. 390 (Südosteuropa-Handbuch, Volume 3)
  2. Web presence of the regional district on the Central Macedonia Region website
  3. Results of the 2011 census at the National Statistical Service of Greece (ΕΛ.ΣΤΑΤ) ( Memento from June 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (Excel document, 2.6 MB)
  4. National Statistics Authority of Greece ( Memento of September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF)

Coordinates: 40 ° 38 '  N , 22 ° 57'  E