Milan metropolitan area


The Milan metropolitan area, also known as Grande Milano, is the largest metropolitan area in Italy and the 54th largest in the world. The metropolitan area described in this article is strictly statistical and, contrary to the administrative Metropolitan City of Milan, a provincial-level municipality, does not imply any kind of administrative unity or function.

Definition

Given the absence of an official statistical definition for the metropolitan area of Milan, tracing precise boundaries is a somewhat slippery issue. However, during the last decade, a number of studies have been carried out on the subject by some authoritative institutions and scholars, notably the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and numerous Italian sources that build a definition based on commuting fluxes and on the concentration of commercial, leisure and public utility services. A broad consensus exists upon a definition that includes the central Lombard provinces of Milan, Bergamo, Como, Lecco, Lodi, Monza and Brianza, Pavia, Varese and the Piedmontese Province of Novara, while some scholars include also the Province of Cremona and Brescia in Lombardy, the Piemontese Province of Alessandria and the Emilian Province of Piacenza. The overall population under the narrowest definition is about 9 million over an area of about.
Provinces in the Milan metro areaArea
2001
Population		2011
Population		2018
Population		% change
GDP
Milan1,575.652,938,556202,971--
Bergamo2,745.94973,55941,945--
Varese1,198.11812,93430,812--
Monza405.41766,76731,972--
Como1,279.04537,85319,892--
Pavia2,968.64493,82915,696--
Novara1,340.28343,09712,938--
Lecco814.58311,63712,142--
Lodi782.99198,0207,229--
Total13,110.647,376,242375,597--

Largest cities

The following is a list of the twenty largest cities in the Milan metropolitan area as ranked by population.
RankCityProvince2001
population		2011
population		2017
population		% change
1MilanMilan1,256,211--
2MonzaMonza120,104--
3BergamoBergamo112,864--
4NovaraNovara100,939--
5ComoComo78,546--
6Busto ArsizioVarese75,866--
7Sesto San GiovanniMilan78,831--
8VareseVarese80,492--
9Cinisello BalsamoMilan71,924--
10PaviaPavia71,366--
11VigevanoPavia57,444--
12LegnanoMilan53,809--
13GallarateVarese46,461--
14RhoMilan50,451--
15LeccoLecco45,513--
16Cologno MonzeseMilan48,270--
17Paderno DugnanoMilan45,439--
18LodiLodi40,894--
19LissoneMonza34,482--
20SeregnoMonza39,171--