Bucharest metropolitan area

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The Bucharest metropolitan area includes Bucharest, the capital city of Romania, and surrounding communes. It has a population of about 2.2 million, only slightly larger than that of the city proper (1.9 million).

The metropolitan area itself has been started as a project in 2003, and it is a strict necessity to become functional by 2010.[1] The city proper has now 224 sq. km, but the metropolitan zone would reach 1,800 in a first phase, and perhaps even 4,000 in 15-20 years.[1]

There are plans to greatly increase this metropolitan area within the next 5 to 10 years. A possible name for it will be Greater Bucharest.[2] In 2018 or 2020, the metropolitan area will be 20 times larger in territory, and will include cities like Giurgiu, Olteniţa, and Otopeni. In spite of this expansion, the ethnografic area of Vlaşca will be protected. The Bucharest metropolitan area may become the biggest port on the Danube.

There are several plans to further increase the metropolitan area of Bucharest, to about 20 times the area of the city proper (from 228 km² to 5,046 km²). It would include 6 cities and 87 communes from the Ilfov, Giurgiu and Călăraşi counties, and would extend all the way to the border with Bulgaria in the south and to Prahova County in the north. In an initial stage, the extension of the zone would include only 67 of the proposed 93 candidates.

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  2. ^ (Romanian) "Zona Metropolitana Bucuresti ar urma sa se intinda pana la Dunare"
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