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Number of municipalities. By surface area. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces

Number of municipalities. By surface area. Counties, areas and provinces Catalonia
Surface area (km²)
Up to 10 >10-20 >20-50 >50-200 > 200 Total
2015 182 238 339 181 7 947
2014 182 238 339 181 7 947
2013 182 238 339 181 7 947
2012 182 238 339 181 7 947
2011 182 238 339 181 7 947
Source:
2011-2013: Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya i Idescat.
2014-2015: Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya; Idescat.
Note: Law 23/2010, of July 22, on the creation of the area of Penedès, divides Catalonia into eight territorial planning areas. This change implies that the data for the Metropolitan Area, Central Counties and Camp de Tarragona are not directly comparable with previous years.

Last update: May 23, 2016.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Municipality
Administrative constituency of a territorial nature, governed by a council, considered the basic unit of territorial organisation and primary element of citizen participation in public affairs, as established by Law 8/1987, of April 15 on municipalities and the local regime for Catalonia. A municipality enjoys its own autonomy, is of a legal character and has full capacity to exercise the public functions bestowed upon it, in order to represent the interests of its respective collective and to manage the public services that it assumed ownership of. The government and administration of the municipality correspond to the municipal council.
Surface area
Extension of the territory, measured in square kilometres, which lies within the administrative boundaries of a certain municipality. Also includes enclaves that some municipalities have that are located within other counties.

Methodological aspects

Unavailable information is represented using the symbol ":". When the value is lower than that of the minimum unit to be able to estimate the statistical operation or if it effects statistical confidentiality, the symbol used is "..".