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, (even though, sometimes, the City Council of Madrid includes part of an eighth, Moncloa-Aravaca, specifically the

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Population

In 1975 1,153,730 people lived there, but since the 1990s, population has decreased steadily: in 2000 there were 915,318 inhabitantsMartínez Martín, Jesús A. «Madrid, de Villa a Metrópoli. Las transformaciones del siglo XX» ''Cuadernos de historia contemporánea''
2000, número 22: 225-249 Consultado el 1 de octubre de 2011 and in 2011 847,686.

References

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en Google Books * ''Recuperar Madrid''. Madrid: Ayuntamiento de Madrid, 1982. (Oficina Municipal del Plan). Geography of Madrid