The Paduan metropolitan area is the urban agglomeration of the city of Padua in Veneto, Italy.
It has been constituted as Metropolitan conference of Padua (act number 37 of 25 March 2003). Anyway, it is not by now recognised by the Italian Republic among the città metropolitane (metropolitan cities) that will be instituted to replace province.
It can be considered as one of the main parts of the Venetian metropolitan area around Venice.
Metropolitan area
The Paduan metropolitan area in composed by the city of Padua and 15 towns from the Province of Padua, and 1 town from the Province of Venice, for a total of 394.011 inhabitants at 2001 census, on a surface of 375,94 km², as shown in the following table (all data are referred to 2001 census):
References
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