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Country
  
Romania

Central Municipality
  
Iași

Time zone
  
EET (UTC+2)

Area
  
808 km²

County
  
Iași

Functional
  
2004

Postal Code
  
70wxyz

Local time
  
Friday 12:48 AM

Iași metropolitan area

Weather
  
4°C, Wind E at 13 km/h, 89% Humidity

The Iași Metropolitan Area is a metropolitan area in Iași County, Romania, that includes the municipality of Iași and 13 nearby communes.

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It has a total surface of 808 km² (14.75%) of the 5,476 km² that the county has, and a population of 382,484 inhabitants (49.5%) out of the 772,348 in the county (as per 2011 census). As of 2014, with 464,711 residents, Iași urban area is the second most populous in Romania (after Bucharest).

History

Iași metropolitan area was constituted on 8 April 2004, to create a better business environment, to attract more consistent investments and to better coordinate environmental and infrastructure projects.

Cities

  • Iași
  • Major roads

  • National roads DN24 and DN28 (both part of European routes E58 and E583)
  • References

    Iași metropolitan area Wikipedia