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Population density. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces

Population density. Counties, areas and provinces 2010
Population Surface area km² Density (inhabitants/km²)
Alt Camp 45,326 538 84.2
Alt Empordà 140,262 1,358 103.3
Alt Penedès 104,589 593 176.4
Alt Urgell 22,005 1,447 15.2
Alta Ribagorça 4,278 427 10.0
Anoia 118,057 866 136.3
Bages 185,117 1,299 142.5
Baix Camp 190,440 697 273.2
Baix Ebre 82,222 1,003 82.0
Baix Empordà 133,221 702 189.9
Baix Llobregat 798,468 486 1,644.0
Baix Penedès 99,786 296 336.8
Barcelonès 2,251,029 145 15,554.4
Berguedà 41,683 1,185 35.2
Cerdanya 18,549 547 33.9
Conca de Barberà 21,437 650 33.0
Garraf 144,657 185 780.7
Garrigues 20,413 798 25.6
Garrotxa 55,439 735 75.4
Gironès 181,153 575 314.8
Maresme 430,997 399 1,080.4
Montsià 72,333 735 98.4
Noguera 40,130 1,784 22.5
Osona 153,499 1,260 121.8
Pallars Jussà 13,978 1,343 10.4
Pallars Sobirà 7,646 1,378 5.5
Pla d'Urgell 37,371 305 122.5
Pla de l'Estany 30,660 263 116.7
Priorat 10,145 499 20.3
Ribera d'Ebre 24,082 827 29.1
Ripollès 26,580 956 27.8
Segarra 22,940 723 31.7
Segrià 205,724 1,397 147.3
Selva 171,037 995 171.9
Solsonès 13,730 1,001 13.7
Tarragonès 249,718 319 783.2
Terra Alta 12,931 743 17.4
Urgell 37,322 580 64.4
Val d'Aran 10,206 634 16.1
Vallès Occidental 886,530 583 1,520.2
Vallès Oriental 396,691 851 466.2
Catalonia 7,512,381 32,107 234.0
Metropolità 5,012,961 3,242 1,546.5
Comarques Gironines 738,352 5,584 132.2
Camp de Tarragona 616,852 2,999 205.7
Terres de l'Ebre 191,568 3,309 57.9
Ponent 363,900 5,586 65.1
Comarques Centrals 512,086 5,612 91.3
Alt Pirineu i Aran 76,662 5,776 13.3
Barcelona 5,511,147 7,726 713.4
Girona 753,046 5,905 127.5
Lleida 439,768 12,168 36.1
Tarragona 808,420 6,308 128.2
Source: Idescat. Municipal population register; Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya.

Last update: December 27, 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 "..".