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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 2009
Surface area (km²)
Up to 10 >10-20 >20-50 >50-200 > 200 Total
Alt Camp 9 4 7 3 0 23
Alt Empordà 23 21 21 3 0 68
Alt Penedès 9 5 12 1 0 27
Alt Urgell 0 3 4 12 0 19
Alta Ribagorça 0 0 0 2 1 3
Anoia 5 8 17 3 0 33
Bages 1 9 15 10 0 35
Baix Camp 5 10 10 3 0 28
Baix Ebre 0 0 6 7 1 14
Baix Empordà 14 12 7 3 0 36
Baix Llobregat 10 12 7 1 0 30
Baix Penedès 5 4 4 1 0 14
Barcelonès 2 1 1 1 0 5
Berguedà 1 1 22 7 0 31
Cerdanya 1 7 6 3 0 17
Conca de Barberà 2 7 8 5 0 22
Garraf 0 2 4 0 0 6
Garrigues 2 8 8 6 0 24
Garrotxa 4 3 11 3 0 21
Gironès 10 8 8 1 0 27
Maresme 19 6 4 1 0 30
Montsià 0 2 5 5 0 12
Noguera 1 3 13 13 0 30
Osona 8 19 17 7 0 51
Pallars Jussà 0 0 5 8 1 14
Pallars Sobirà 2 1 0 12 0 15
Pla d'Urgell 5 6 5 0 0 16
Pla de l'Estany 0 7 3 1 0 11
Priorat 5 8 8 2 0 23
Ribera d'Ebre 0 2 6 5 1 14
Ripollès 1 2 8 8 0 19
Segarra 1 7 7 6 0 21
Segrià 6 9 12 10 1 38
Selva 3 4 12 7 0 26
Solsonès 1 1 4 9 0 15
Tarragonès 10 7 3 1 0 21
Terra Alta 0 0 5 7 0 12
Urgell 1 6 11 2 0 20
Val d'Aran 0 3 4 0 2 9
Vallès Occidental 5 5 12 1 0 23
Vallès Oriental 10 15 17 1 0 43
Catalonia 181 238 339 181 7 946
Metropolità 55 46 57 6 0 164
Comarques Gironines 55 57 70 26 0 208
Camp de Tarragona 36 40 40 15 0 131
Terres de l'Ebre 0 4 22 24 2 52
Ponent 16 39 56 37 1 149
Comarques Centrals 16 38 75 36 0 165
Alt Pirineu i Aran 3 14 19 37 4 77
Barcelona 70 82 128 31 0 311
Girona 55 65 76 27 0 223
Lleida 20 47 74 84 5 230
Tarragona 36 44 61 39 2 182
Source: Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya i Idescat.

Last update: April 20, 2010.

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 "..".