
The Turin metropolitan area is the urban agglomeration centred on the city of
Turin
Turin ( , Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. Th ...
in the
Piedmont
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region
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of north-west
Italy
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. It is defined statistically and does not correspond to a single area of local government. Administratively it comprises the
comune
The (; plural: ) is a local administrative division of Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality. It is the third-level administrative division of Italy, after regions ('' regioni'') and provinces ('' province''). The can ...
(municipality) of Turin plus 53 further communes, all of which fall within the
Metropolitan City of Turin.
The metropolitan area has a total population of 1,646,064 estimated by the OECD and an area of 1,127 km², giving a density of 1,461 people per square kilometre.
It is the fourth most populous metropolitan area in Italy. 51% of the population lives within the city of Turin.
Composition
The Turin metropolitan area includes the city of Turin and 53 municipalities, the most important of these by population are Turin,
Moncalieri
Moncalieri (; pms, Moncalé ) is a town and ''comune'' of 56,134 inhabitants (31 January 2022) about directly south of downtown Turin (to whose Metropolitan City it belongs), in Piedmont, Italy. It is the most populous suburb of Turin and it is ...
,
Collegno
Collegno (; pms, Colegn ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about west of Turin.
It occupies an alluvial plain at the end of the Val di Susa, between Rivoli and Turin, ...
,
Rivoli,
Settimo Torinese
Settimo Torinese ( pms, Ël Seto) is a ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Turin, in Piedmont, Italy. The name ''settimo'' means "seventh", and it comes from the comune's distance from Turin, which is seven Roman miles. It is bordered by the ot ...
and
Nichelino
Nichelino ( pms, Ël Niclin) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about southwest of Turin.
Nichelino borders the following municipalities: Turin, Orbassano, Beinasco, Moncalier ...
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References
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Metropolitan areas of Italy
Metropolitan City of Turin
Turin