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 cou ...

Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...

. It consists of the municipality of

Iași Iași ( , , ; also known by other #Etymology and names, alternative names), also referred to mostly historically as Jassy ( , ), is the Cities in Romania, third largest city in Romania and the seat of Iași County. Located in the historical ...

and 19 nearby communes.

Geography

With an area of , the Iași metropolitan area occupies 21.2% of Iași County's total area 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.

Demographics

Per the 2021 census, the Iași metropolitan area has 423,154 inhabitants, 55.6% of Iași County's total population of 760,774. As defined by

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, with 500,668 residents (), the Iași functional urban area is the second most populous in Romania (after

Bucharest Bucharest ( , ; ) is the capital and largest city of Romania. The metropolis stands on the River Dâmbovița (river), Dâmbovița in south-eastern Romania. Its population is officially estimated at 1.76 million residents within a greater Buc ...

Transportation

Iași is served by Iași International Airport. Major roads in Iași are national roads DN24 and DN28, which are both part of European routes E58 and E583. CTP Iași offers transport services for the Iași Metropolitan Public Transport Association (''Asociația Metropolitană de Transport Public Iași;'' AMTPI).

Communities

Cities

Communes

References

External links

Official site

Population of the Iași metropolitan area: volume, structures and demographic processes

Iași Metropolitan Public Transport Association official website
Geography of Iași County Metropolitan areas of Romania {{Iasi-geo-stub