Bilbao metropolitan area

Bilbao Metropolitan Area Bilbo Handia or Área metropolitana de Bilbao
Urban area
Bilbao, the largest city in the metropolitan area
Bilbao metropolitan area in Biscay
Country	Spain
Region	Biscay
Largest city	Bilbao (345,821)
Area
• Metro	500 km2 (200 sq mi)
Population [1]
• Metro	950,155
• Metro density	1,900/km2 (4,900/sq mi)
GDP [2]
• Metro	€32.891 billion

The Bilbao Metropolitan Area (in Basque: Bilbo Handia, in Spanish: Área metropolitana de Bilbao) is the metropolitan area or continuous urban area based around the city of Bilbao, in the Basque Country, Spain. It comprises the city of Bilbao, the 25 municipalities that make the comarca of Greater Bilbao plus ten other surrounding municipalities, all of them in the province of Biscay.

It is the fifth most populated metropolitan area in Spain^[3] Almost 80% of the population of Biscay and 43% of the population of the Basque Country is concentrated in the Greater Bilbao area or the wider metropolitan area. The metropolitan area's municipalities, are defined by the Basque Country's Territorial Directives^[4][5] Other six satellite cities exist within the province of Biscay and the community of Cantabria, where commute between the cities and the metropolitan area in common.^[6]