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

Number of municipalities. By surface area. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces 2019
Surface area (km²)
Up to 10 >10-20 >20-50 >50-200 > 200 Total
Alt Camp 9 4 7 3 0 23
Alt Empordà 22 23 19 4 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 9 16 3 0 33
Aran 0 3 4 0 2 9
Bages 1 8 14 7 0 30
Baix Camp 4 11 10 3 0 28
Baix Ebre 0 0 6 7 1 14
Baix Empordà 14 12 6 4 0 36
Baix Llobregat 10 12 7 1 0 30
Baix Penedès 5 3 5 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 9 7 1 0 27
Maresme 19 6 4 1 0 30
Moianès 0 2 6 2 0 10
Montsià 0 2 4 6 0 12
Noguera 1 3 13 13 0 30
Osona 8 19 16 7 0 50
Pallars Jussà 0 0 5 8 1 14
Pallars Sobirà 2 1 0 11 1 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 9 7 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 11 7 3 1 0 22
Terra Alta 0 0 5 7 0 12
Urgell 1 7 10 2 0 20
Vallès Occidental 5 5 12 1 0 23
Vallès Oriental 9 16 13 1 0 39
Catalonia 179 245 334 181 8 947
Metropolità 45 40 41 5 0 131
Comarques Gironines 54 60 67 27 0 208
Camp de Tarragona 31 37 36 14 0 118
Terres de l'Ebre 0 4 21 25 2 52
Ponent 16 40 55 37 1 149
Comarques Centrals 13 31 64 32 0 140
Alt Pirineu i Aran 3 14 19 36 5 77
Penedès 17 19 31 5 0 72
Barcelona 69 85 127 30 0 311
Girona 54 67 72 28 0 221
Lleida 20 49 73 83 6 231
Tarragona 36 44 62 40 2 184
Source: Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya; Idescat.

Last update: January 17, 2020.

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 "..".