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Population density. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces

Population density. Counties, areas and provinces 2006
Population Surface area km² Density (inhabitants/km²)
Alt Camp 41,081 538 76.4
Alt Empordà 123,983 1,358 91.3
Alt Penedès 96,779 593 163.3
Alt Urgell 21,257 1,447 14.7
Alta Ribagorça 4,074 427 9.5
Anoia 109,198 866 126.1
Bages 173,236 1,299 133.4
Baix Camp 173,539 697 249.0
Baix Ebre 76,368 1,003 76.2
Baix Empordà 124,055 702 176.8
Baix Llobregat 767,967 486 1,581.2
Baix Penedès 85,756 296 289.5
Barcelonès 2,226,913 145 15,387.7
Berguedà 40,064 1,185 33.8
Cerdanya 17,235 547 31.5
Conca de Barberà 20,388 650 31.4
Garraf 133,117 185 718.5
Garrigues 20,032 798 25.1
Garrotxa 52,834 735 71.8
Gironès 166,079 575 288.6
Maresme 409,125 399 1,025.6
Montsià 65,333 735 88.8
Noguera 38,394 1,784 21.5
Osona 145,790 1,260 115.7
Pallars Jussà 12,648 1,343 9.4
Pallars Sobirà 7,067 1,378 5.1
Pla d'Urgell 34,171 305 112.0
Pla de l'Estany 28,557 263 108.7
Priorat 9,796 499 19.6
Ribera d'Ebre 23,046 827 27.9
Ripollès 26,366 956 27.6
Segarra 21,781 723 30.1
Segrià 187,326 1,397 134.1
Selva 151,477 995 152.2
Solsonès 13,050 1,001 13.0
Tarragonès 222,444 319 697.6
Terra Alta 12,715 743 17.1
Urgell 34,638 580 59.7
Val d'Aran 9,554 634 15.1
Vallès Occidental 836,077 583 1,433.7
Vallès Oriental 371,387 851 436.4
Catalonia 7,134,697 32,107 222.2
Metropolità 4,841,365 3,242 1,493.5
Comarques Gironines 673,351 5,584 120.6
Camp de Tarragona 553,004 2,999 184.4
Terres de l'Ebre 177,462 3,309 53.6
Ponent 336,342 5,586 60.2
Comarques Centrals 481,338 5,612 85.8
Alt Pirineu i Aran 71,835 5,776 12.4
Barcelona 5,309,404 7,726 687.2
Girona 687,331 5,905 116.4
Lleida 407,496 12,168 33.5
Tarragona 730,466 6,308 115.8
Source: Idescat. Municipal population register; Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya.

Last update: June 18, 2009.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Density
Total population divided by the surface area, expressed in inhabitants per square kilometre.
Population
All inhabitants of a given place. Since 1996, when the continuous management system was established for the Municipal Population Register, in accordance with Royal Decree 2612/1996, of December 20, official population figures for municipalities have been obtained annually using data referred to January 1 of each year.
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

The Municipal population register is the administrative record containing the residents of a given municipality and it constitutes proof that they reside in the municipality and have their usual home there. Statistical processing of the municipal population register provides figures on the number of people registered in the population census in each municipality in Catalonia.

The new county of El Moianès was created on 1 May 2015 (Law 4/2015, of 23 April, on the creation of the county of El Moianès) from the aggregation of five municipalities of the county of El Bages, one from the county of Osona and four from the county of El Vallès Oriental.

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 "..".