The Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area (PATREVE) or Venice City-Region is the urban agglomeration centred on the cities of Padova, Treviso and Venice in the Veneto region of north-east Italy. It is defined statistically and does not correspond to a single area of local government. Administratively it comprises the communes (municipalities) of the 3 cities plus another 240 communes (104 in the province of Padua, 95 in the province of Treviso and 44 in the province of Venice). The metropolitan area has a total population of 2,600,000.
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