Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | County |
Subdivision Name1: | Iași |
Subdivision Type2: | Central Municipality |
Subdivision Name2: | Iași |
Subdivision Type3: | Other localities |
Timezone: | EET |
Utc Offset: | +2 |
Timezone Dst: | EEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +3 |
Settlement Type: | Metropolitan area |
Established Title: | Functional |
Established Date: | 2004 |
Area Total Km2: | 1,159 |
Population Total: | 423,154 |
Population Density Km2: | 366 |
Population As Of: | 2021 census |
Coordinates: | 47.1622°N 27.5889°W |
Postal Code Type: | Postal Code |
Postal Code: | 70wxyz |
Area Code: | +40 x32 |
Website: | http://www.zmi.ro/ |
The Iași metropolitan area is a metropolitan association in Iași County, Romania. It consists of the municipality of Iași and 19 nearby communes.
With an area of 1159km2, the Iași metropolitan area occupies 21.2% of Iași County's total area of 5476km2.
Iași metropolitan area was constituted on 8 April 2004, to create a better business environment, to attract more consistent investments and to better coordinate environmental and infrastructure projects.
Per the 2021 census, the Iași metropolitan area has 423,154 inhabitants, 55.6% of Iași County's total population of 760,774.[1]
As defined by Eurostat, with 500,668 residents, the Iași functional urban area is the second most populous in Romania (after Bucharest).[2]
Iași is served by Iași International Airport.
Major roads in Iași are national roads DN24 and DN28, which are both part of European routes E58 and E583. CTP Iași offers transport services for the Iași Metropolitan Public Transport Association (Asociația Metropolitană de Transport Public Iași; AMTPI).[3]