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Number of municipalities and population. Counties and Aran

Number of municipalities and population. Counties 2010
County County capital Provinces the municipalities belong to Number of municipalities Population
Alt Camp Valls Tarragona 23 45,326
Alt Empordà Figueres Girona 68 140,262
Alt Penedès Vilafranca del Penedès Barcelona 27 104,589
Alt Urgell Seu d'Urgell, la Lleida 19 22,005
Alta Ribagorça Pont de Suert, el Lleida 3 4,278
Anoia Igualada Barcelona 33 118,057
Bages Manresa Barcelona 35 185,117
Baix Camp Reus Tarragona 28 190,440
Baix Ebre Tortosa Tarragona 14 82,222
Baix Empordà Bisbal d'Empordà, la Girona 36 133,221
Baix Llobregat St. Feliu de Llobregat Barcelona 30 798,468
Baix Penedès Vendrell, el Tarragona 14 99,786
Barcelonès Barcelona Barcelona 5 2,251,029
Berguedà Berga Barcelona/Lleida (1) 31 41,683
Cerdanya Puigcerdà Girona/Lleida (2) 17 18,549
Conca de Barberà Montblanc Tarragona 22 21,437
Garraf Vilanova i la Geltrú Barcelona 6 144,657
Garrigues Borges Blanques, les Lleida 24 20,413
Garrotxa Olot Girona 21 55,439
Gironès Girona Girona 27 181,153
Maresme Mataró Barcelona 30 430,997
Montsià Amposta Tarragona 12 72,333
Noguera Balaguer Lleida 30 40,130
Osona Vic Barcelona/Girona (3) 51 153,499
Pallars Jussà Tremp Lleida 14 13,978
Pallars Sobirà Sort Lleida 15 7,646
Pla d'Urgell Mollerussa Lleida 16 37,371
Pla de l'Estany Banyoles Girona 11 30,660
Priorat Falset Taragona 23 10,145
Ribera d'Ebre Móra d'Ebre Tarragona 14 24,082
Ripollès Ripoll Girona 19 26,580
Segarra Cervera Lleida 21 22,940
Segrià Lleida Lleida 38 205,724
Selva Sta. Coloma de Farners Girona/Barcelona (4) 26 171,037
Solsonès Solsona Lleida 15 13,730
Tarragonès Tarragona Tarragona 22 249,718
Terra Alta Gandesa Tarragona 12 12,931
Urgell Tàrrega Lleida 20 37,322
Val d'Aran Vielha e Mijaran Lleida 9 10,206
Vallès Occidental Sabadell i Terrassa Barcelona 23 886,530
Vallès Oriental Granollers Barcelona 43 396,691
Catalonia 947 7,512,381
Source: Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya and Idescat. Municipal population record.
Notes:
(1) Includes municipality of Gósol.
(2) Includes municipalities of Bellver de Cerdanya, Lles de Cerdanya, Montellà i Martinet, Prats i Sansor, Prullans and Riu de Cerdanya.
(3) Includes municipalities of Viladrau, Espinelves and Vidrà.
(4) Includes municipality of Fogars de la Selva.

Last update: March 4, 2011.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Territorial area
Group of simple counties established by law, the aim of which is the development of sectorial territorial plans and the possible decentralisation of the Generalitat's services derived from the development of these plans. Law 23/2010, of July 22, on the creation of the area of Penedès, modifies the previous laws (Law 1/19965, of March 16; Law 24/2001, of December 31) and divides Catalonia into eight territorial planning regions.
County
Local territorial entity, institutionalised by Law 6/1987, of April 4, in the county organisation of Catalonia. It is made up of a group of contiguous municipalities that have their own autonomy and legal personality. The Statute attributes them the character of being necessary parts of the territorial organisation of Catalonia, along with municipalities. The county organisation applies throughout the territory of Catalonia, and no municipality can be excluded nor may form part of more than one county. The territory of the county is the area over which the county council exercises its responsibilities and is defined by the boundaries of the group of municipal regions of the municipalities that it consists of.
Municipality
Administrative constituency of a territorial nature, governed by a council, considered the basic unit of territorial organisation and primary element of citizen participation in public affairs, as established by Law 8/1987, of April 15 on municipalities and the local regime for Catalonia. A municipality enjoys its own autonomy, is of a legal character and has full capacity to exercise the public functions bestowed upon it, in order to represent the interests of its respective collective and to manage the public services that it assumed ownership of. The government and administration of the municipality correspond to the municipal council.
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.
Province
Local territorial entity formed by a contiguous group of municipalities, of a legal nature and with full capacity to accomplish its aims, in accordance with Law 7/1985, which regulates the standards for the local regime. These aims are: to coordinate municipal services is order to guarantee the integral and adequate provision of these services throughout the territory of the province; to facilitate legal, judicial, economic and specialist assistance and cooperation with the municipalities; to provide supra-county level public services and to foster and administrate the particular interests of the province. Government and administration of Catalan provinces corresponds to the respective provincial councils, or deputations.

Methodological aspects

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.

You can get more information about these statistics in the methodology.