The Iași Metropolitan Area is a metropolitan association in

Iași County Iași County () is a county (județ) of Romania, in Western Moldavia, with the administrative seat at Iași. It is the most populous county in Romania, after the Municipality of Bucharest (which has the same administrative level as that of a coun ...

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, that includes the municipality of

Iași Iași ( , , ; also known by other alternative names), also referred to mostly historically as Jassy ( , ), is the second largest city in Romania and the seat of Iași County. Located in the historical region of Moldavia, it has traditionally ...

and 19 nearby

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. It has a total surface of 1,159 km² (21.2%) of the 5,476 km² that the county has, and a population of 403,572 inhabitants (52.2%) out of the 772,348 in the county (as per 2011 census). As defined by

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, with 500,668 residents (), the Iași

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is the second most populous in Romania (after

Bucharest Bucharest ( , ; ro, București ) is the capital and largest city of Romania, as well as its cultural, industrial, and financial centre. It is located in the southeast of the country, on the banks of the Dâmbovița River, less than north of ...

History

Iași metropolitan area was constituted on 8 April 2004, to create a better business environment, to attract more consistent investments and to better coordinate environmental and infrastructure projects.

Communities

Cities

Communes

Transportation

Major airport

Major roads

* National roads DN24 and DN28 (both part of European routes E58 and E583)

References

External links

Official site

Population of the Iași metropolitan area: volume, structures and demographic processes
Geography of Iași County Metropolitan areas of Romania {{Iasi-geo-stub