Constanța metropolitan area

Constanța metropolitan area
Metropolitan area
Country	Romania
County	Constanța
Central Municipality	Constanța
Cities	Năvodari, Ovidiu, Eforie, Murfatlar, Techirghiol
Other localities	Mihail Kogălniceanu, Cumpăna, Valu lui Traian, Lumina, Tuzla, Agigea, Corbu, Poarta Albă
Functional	2007
Area
• Total	1,013.5 km^2 (391.3 sq mi)
Population  (2021 census)[1]
• Total	415,695
• Density	411/km^2 (1,060/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal Code	90wxyz^1
Area code	+40 x41^2
Website	http://www.zmc.ro/
^1w, x, y, and z are digits that indicate the street, part of the street, or even the building of the address ^2x is a digit indicating the operator: 2 for the former national operator, Romtelecom, and 3 for the other ground telephone networks

The Constanța metropolitan area, is a metropolitan area, established in 2007, that includes the municipality of Constanța, the towns of Năvodari, Ovidiu, Eforie, Murfatlar, Techirghiol and 8 communes: Mihail Kogălniceanu, Cumpăna, Valu lui Traian, Lumina, Tuzla, Agigea, Corbu and Poarta Albă. According to the 2021 census, it has a population of 415,695,^[1] in an area consisting of 16% of Constanța County.

As defined by Eurostat, with 420,241 residents (as of 2015^[update]), the Constanța functional urban area is the third most populous in Romania.^[2]

Such administrative arrangement existed in an approximative similarity before 1989, when Constanța Municipality also included the city of Mangalia and the communes 23 August and Limanu, together with all the summer resorts located between 23 August and Mangalia (the so-called "Mangalia Nord" resorts area).

However this administrative reform exists only on paper, nothing being done so far to put this decision into practice (e.g. unified local administration and transportation)^{[citation needed]}.

Demographics

Population census
Year	2011	2021
Pop.	425,916	415,695
±%	—	−2.4%
Source: [1][3]

References

1. "Population at 2021 Census" (in Romanian). INSSE. 31 May 2023.
2. "Population on 1 January by age groups and sex - functional urban areas". Eurostat. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
3. "Population at 20 October 2011" (in Romanian). INSSE. 5 July 2013.

External links

• "Anuarul statistic al județului Constanța" – 1986, Direcția Județeana de Statistică Constanța
• "Zona Metropolitană Constanța – prima structură administrativă de tip european din România" (in Romanian). Archived from the original on 2007-11-22. Retrieved August 9, 2020.