Greater Buenos Aires ( es, Gran Buenos Aires, GBA), also known as the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area ( es, Área Metropolitana de Buenos Aires, AMBA), refers to the urban agglomeration comprising the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires and the adjacent 24 '' partidos'' (districts) in the Province of Buenos Aires. Thus, it does not constitute a single administrative unit. The

conurbation A conurbation is a region comprising a number of metropolises, cities, large towns, and other urban areas which through population growth and physical expansion, have merged to form one continuous urban or industrially developed area. In most ca ...

spreads south, west and north of Buenos Aires city. To the east, the River Plate serves as a natural boundary. Urban sprawl, especially between 1945 and 1980, created a vast metropolitan area of over 3,800 km² (1,500 mi²) - or 19 times the area of Buenos Aires proper. The 24 suburban ''partidos'' (counties) grew more than six-fold in population between the 1947 and 2022 censuses - or nearly 2.5% annually, compared to 1.4% for the nation as a whole. While annual growth for the suburban area slowed to 0.8% between 2010 and 2022, the 14 million inhabitants in the entire 30-county area plus the City of Buenos Aires account for a third of the total

population of Argentina This is a demography of Argentina including population density, ethnicity, economic status and other aspects of the population. In the , Argentina had a population of 40,117,096 inhabitants, and preliminary results from the counted 47,327,407 ...

and generate nearly half (48%) of the country's GDP. Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.7) id:sfondo value:rgb(1,1,1) ImageSize = width:600 height:auto barincrement:30 PlotArea = left:40 bottom:40 top:20 right:20 DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:12000 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal AlignBars = late ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:1000 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:500 start:0 BackgroundColors = canvas:sfondo PlotData= color:skyblue width:20 shift:(5,-5) fontsize:M anchor:till bar:1914 from:0 till:458 text:458217 bar:1947 from:0 till:1741 text:1741338 bar:1960 from:0 till:3772 text:3772411 bar:1970 from:0 till:5380 text:5380447 bar:1980 from:0 till:6843 text:6843201 bar:1991 from:0 till:7953 text:7952624 bar:2001 from:0 till:8684 text:8684437 bar:2010 from:0 till:9917 text:9916715 bar:2022 from:0 till:10865 text:10865182 TextData= pos:(35,20) fontsize:S text:"Source: INDEC"

History

The term ''Gran Buenos Aires'' ("Greater Buenos Aires") was first officially used in 1948, when

Governor of Buenos Aires Province The Governor of Buenos Aires Province ( es, Gobernador de la Provincia de Buenos Aires) is a citizen of the Buenos Aires Province of Argentina, holding the office of governor for the corresponding period. The governor is elected alongside a vic ...

Domingo Mercante Domingo Mercante (June 11, 1898 – February 21, 1976) was an Argentine military officer and governor of the province of Buenos Aires. He stood out as one of the initiators of Peronism, organizing labor mobilizations that ended on 17 October 19 ...

signed a bill delineating as such an area covering 14 municipalities surrounding the City of Buenos Aires. The term is also related to other expressions that are not necessarily well-defined: the "Buenos Aires' conurbation" (''Conurbano Bonaerense''), the "Greater Buenos Aires Agglomeration" (''Aglomerado Gran Buenos Aires''), and the "Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires" (''Área Metropolitana Buenos Aires'', AMBA). In colloquial speech, people refer to the "Buenos Aires' conurbation" as the set of municipalities that surround the City of Buenos Aires, and which are mostly populated by working-class or middle-class communities.

Definition

Satellite image of Buenos Aires, Argentina - December 19, 2014

The National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INDEC) has defined Greater Buenos Aires. There are three main groups within the Buenos Aires conurbation. The first two groups (24 '' partidos'') comprise the traditional conurbation, or the "conurbation proper", while the third group of six ''partidos'' is in the process of becoming fully integrated with the rest. ;Fourteen fully urbanized ''partidos'' *

Avellaneda Avellaneda (, ) is a port city in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and the seat of the Avellaneda Partido, whose population was 342,677 as per the . Avellaneda is located within the Greater Buenos Aires metropolitan area, and is connected ...

General San Martín A general officer is an officer of high rank in the armies, and in some nations' air forces, space forces, and marines or naval infantry. In some usages the term "general officer" refers to a rank above colonel."general, adj. and n.". OED O ...

* Hurlingham * Ituzaingó *

José C. Paz José Clemente Paz (2 October 1842 – 10 March 1912) was an Argentine politician, diplomat and journalist, founder of ''La Prensa''. Life Paz was born in Buenos Aires and started his education in that city but was forced to mov ...

* Lanús * Lomas de Zamora *

Malvinas Argentinas Malvinas Argentinas Partido is a '' partido'' in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, in the Gran Buenos Aires urban area. It has an area of and according to the preliminary results of the 2010 Census, the population was 321,833 inhabitants. (). ...

* Morón * Quilmes * San Isidro * San Miguel *

Tres de Febrero Tres de febrero (3 February) is a notable date in Argentine history. On 3 February 1852 General Juan Manuel de Rosas, a great rival of President Domingo Faustino Sarmiento Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (; born Domingo Faustino Fidel Valentín ...

* Vicente López ;Ten ''partidos'' partially urbanized * Almirante Brown *

Berazategui :''This article contains information about the town of Berazategui. See also Berazategui Partido for the wider neighbourhood.'' Berazategui is a city in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, located to the south-east of Quilmes. It is the head town ...

* Esteban Echeverría * Ezeiza * Florencio Varela * La Matanza * Merlo * Moreno *

San Fernando San Fernando may refer to: People *Ferdinand III of Castile (c. 1200–1252), called ''San Fernando'' (Spanish) or ''Saint Ferdinand'', King of Castile, León, and Galicia Places Argentina *San Fernando de la Buena Vista, city of Greater Buenos ...

* Tigre ;Six ''partidos'' not yet conurbated As urbanization continues and the conurbation grows, six additional partially urbanized ''partidos'' (totaling 1,062,991 population of as the 2022 census) are now fully connected with the

: * Escobar (256,449) *

General Rodríguez General Rodríguez is a city within the urban agglomeration of Greater Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It is the administrative centre for General Rodríguez Partido. The triple crime The Triple crime ( es, Triple crimen) to ...

(143,211) * Marcos Paz (67,154) * Pilar (395,072) * Presidente Perón (102,128) * San Vicente (98,977)

List of cities in Greater Buenos Aires

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File:Centro_de_Berazategui.JPG, Berazategui File:Ciudad Evita.JPG, Ciudad Evita (La Matanza Partido) File:Peatonal Florencio Varela 1.jpg, Florencio Varela File:Viacivitanovamarche.JPG, General San Martín File:Iglesia Inmaculada concepción....jpg, Monte Grande (Esteban Echeverría Partido) File:Provincia de Buenos Aires - Vicente López - Avenida Maipú.jpg, Olivos (Vicente López Partido) File:Quilmes001bis.jpg, Quilmes File:Parque junto al Museo de Arte Tigre.jpg, Tigre File:Ruta_Panamericana_Buenos Aires_Florida.jpg, Pan-American Expressway, north of Buenos Aires

History

Definition

List of cities in Greater Buenos Aires

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