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Population density. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces

Population density. Counties, areas and provinces 2009
Population Surface area km² Density (inhabitants/km²)
Alt Camp 45,001 538 83.6
Alt Empordà 138,501 1,358 102.0
Alt Penedès 104,353 593 176.0
Alt Urgell 22,037 1,447 15.2
Alta Ribagorça 4,375 427 10.2
Anoia 117,114 866 135.2
Bages 184,642 1,299 142.1
Baix Camp 189,226 697 271.5
Baix Ebre 81,724 1,003 81.5
Baix Empordà 132,973 702 189.5
Baix Llobregat 793,655 486 1,634.0
Baix Penedès 98,861 296 333.7
Barcelonès 2,251,600 145 15,558.3
Berguedà 41,744 1,185 35.2
Cerdanya 18,656 547 34.1
Conca de Barberà 21,502 650 33.1
Garraf 143,066 185 772.2
Garrigues 20,479 798 25.7
Garrotxa 55,339 735 75.3
Gironès 179,742 575 312.4
Maresme 426,565 399 1,069.3
Montsià 72,189 735 98.2
Noguera 40,213 1,784 22.5
Osona 152,411 1,260 120.9
Pallars Jussà 13,840 1,343 10.3
Pallars Sobirà 7,625 1,378 5.5
Pla d'Urgell 37,044 305 121.4
Pla de l'Estany 30,153 263 114.7
Priorat 10,024 499 20.1
Ribera d'Ebre 24,004 827 29.0
Ripollès 26,821 956 28.0
Segarra 22,825 723 31.6
Segrià 203,279 1,397 145.5
Selva 169,389 995 170.2
Solsonès 13,759 1,001 13.7
Tarragonès 247,827 319 777.2
Terra Alta 12,943 743 17.4
Urgell 36,670 580 63.3
Val d'Aran 10,295 634 16.2
Vallès Occidental 878,893 583 1,507.1
Vallès Oriental 394,061 851 463.1
Catalonia 7,475,420 32,107 232.8
Metropolità 4,992,193 3,242 1,540.1
Comarques Gironines 732,918 5,584 131.2
Camp de Tarragona 612,441 2,999 204.2
Terres de l'Ebre 190,860 3,309 57.7
Ponent 360,510 5,586 64.5
Comarques Centrals 509,670 5,612 90.8
Alt Pirineu i Aran 76,828 5,776 13.3
Barcelona 5,487,935 7,726 710.4
Girona 747,782 5,905 126.6
Lleida 436,402 12,168 35.9
Tarragona 803,301 6,308 127.4
Source: Idescat. Municipal population register; Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya.

Last update: February 18, 2010.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Density
Total population divided by the surface area, expressed in inhabitants per square kilometre.
Population
All inhabitants of a given place. Since 1996, when the continuous management system was established for the Municipal Population Register, in accordance with Royal Decree 2612/1996, of December 20, official population figures for municipalities have been obtained annually using data referred to January 1 of each year.
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

The Municipal population register is the administrative record containing the residents of a given municipality and it constitutes proof that they reside in the municipality and have their usual home there. Statistical processing of the municipal population register provides figures on the number of people registered in the population census in each municipality in Catalonia.

The new county of El Moianès was created on 1 May 2015 (Law 4/2015, of 23 April, on the creation of the county of El Moianès) from the aggregation of five municipalities of the county of El Bages, one from the county of Osona and four from the county of El Vallès Oriental.

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 "..".