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Gran Buenos Aires | |
|---|---|
| Greater Buenos Aires | |
 Satellite image of Greater Buenos Aires at night | |
| Country |  Argentina |
| Core city | Buenos Aires |
| Area | |
| • Metro | 3,833 km2 (1,480 sq mi) |
| Population (INDEC 2022 Census[1]) | 10,865,182 (24 partidos)[1] |
| • Metro | 13,985,794 (including the Federal District and 24 partidos)[1] |
| • Metro density | 3,926.1/km2 (10,169/sq mi) |
| GDP (PPP, constant 2015 values) | |
| • Year | 2023 |
| • Total | $356.8 billion[2] |
| • Per capita | $23,000 |
Greater Buenos Aires (Spanish: Gran Buenos Aires, GBA), also known as the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (Spanish: Área Metropolitana de Buenos Aires, AMBA),[3] refers to the urban agglomeration comprising the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires and the adjacent 24 partidos (districts) in the Province of Buenos Aires. Thus, it does not constitute a single administrative unit. The conurbation spreads south, west and north of Buenos Aires city. To the east, the River Plate serves as a natural boundary.
Urban sprawl, especially between 1945 and 1980, created a vast metropolitan area of over 3,800 km² (1,500 mi²)[4] - or 19 times the area of Buenos Aires proper. The 24 suburban partidos (counties) grew more than six-fold in population between the 1947 and 2022 censuses - or nearly 2.5% annually, compared to 1.4% for the nation as a whole.[5][1]
While annual growth for the suburban area slowed to 0.8% between 2010 and 2022, the 14 million inhabitants in the entire 30-county area plus the City of Buenos Aires account for a third of the total population of Argentina and generate nearly half (48%) of the country's GDP.[4]
- ^ a b c d "Censo Nacional de Población, Hogares y Viviendas 2022: Resultados provisionales" (PDF). INDEC.
- ^ "TelluBase—Argentina Fact Sheet (Tellusant Public Service Series)" (PDF). Tellusant. Retrieved 2024-01-11.
- ^ "¿Qué significa AMBA, el área más estricta con la cuarentena en Argentina?". La Nación (in Spanish). June 18, 2020. Retrieved June 21, 2020.
- ^ a b Valrione, Mrs (2023). "Buenos Aires City Guide".
- ^ "Argentina: población total por regiones y provincias. Censos Nacionales de 1914 - 2001" (PDF). INDEC.