Baia Mare Metropolitan Area (BMMA) is located in northwestern

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and consists of

Baia Mare Baia Mare ( , ; hu, Nagybánya; german: Frauenbach or Groß-Neustadt; la, Rivulus Dominarum) is a municipality along the Săsar River, in northwestern Romania; it is the capital of Maramureș County. The city lies in the region of Maramureș ...

City (

Maramureș County Maramureș County () is a county (județ) in Romania, in the Maramureș region. The county seat is Baia Mare. Name In Hungarian language, Hungarian it is known as ''Máramaros megye'', in Ukrainian language, Ukrainian as Мараморо́щ� ...

seat) and localities found within a distance of 35 km. For the 2014–2020 time period, the Baia Mare Metropolitan Area was slated to become an important instrument for accessing EU structural funds, which would enable the implementation of local infrastructure investment projects, thereby increasing the quality of life and reducing disparities between localities. As defined by

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, the Baia Mare

functional urban area The larger urban zone (LUZ), or functional urban area (FUA), is a measure of the population and expanse of metropolitan and surrounding areas which may or may not be exclusively urban. It consists of a city and its commuting zone outside it. Th ...

has a population of 181,993 residents ().

Territorial context

BMMA covers an area of 1,410 square kilometers (22% of Maramureș County), having specific landforms (mountainous area of Gutâi Mountains, the lowland and hills of Baia Mare) with the

Someș River The Someș (; hu, Szamos; german: Somesch or ''Samosch'') is a left tributary of the Tisza in Hungary and Romania. It has a length of (including its source river Someșul Mare), of which 50 km are in Hungary.Lăpuș Lăpuș (formerly ''Lăpușul Românesc''; hu, Oláhlápos) is a commune in Maramureș County, Transylvania, Romania, on the Lăpuș River, at 12 km from the town of Târgu Lăpuș. It is composed of a single village, Lăpuș. Etymologicall ...

and

Săsar The Săsar ( hu, Zazar) is a right tributary of the river Lăpuș in Maramureș County, Romania. It discharges into the Lăpuș in Bozânta Mare, southwest of Baia Mare.Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

(Italy),

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(Greece),

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(Spain), and

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(Ireland). * Network of active employment measures in 15 administrative units in the North - West Development Region, with The Federation of NGOs as applicant and Baia Mare Metropolitan Area as partner. * STATUS - Strategic Territorial Agendas for „Small and Middle-Sized Towns Project funded through the Transnational Cooperation Programme South East Europe, Priority Axis 4.1 - Addressing problems affecting metropolitan areas and regional systems of settlements. * INTER_URBAN Project — Crossborder database with indicators for monitoring the sustainable development process in Baia Mare and Ivano Frankivsk Areas, with BMMA being the applicant and Ivano Frankivsk, Ukraine being partner in association with Global Indicators Facility from

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, Canada. Implementing programmes: * Metropolitan Transport System, having as main purpose the implementation of the local public transport service for people within the Baia Mare Metropolitan Area. The programme is addressed to more than 245.671 inhabitants.

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