Metropolitan City of Naples
| Metropolitan City of Naples | ||
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Aerial view of the Metropolitan City of Naples.
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| Country |
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| Region | Campania | |
| Established | 1 January 2015 | |
| Capital(s) | Naples | |
| Comuni | 92 | |
| Government | ||
| • Mayor | Luigi de Magistris | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 1,171 km2 (452 sq mi) | |
| Population (2014) | ||
| • Total | 3,128,700 (4,500,000) | |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | |
| ISTAT | 263 | |
| Website | www |
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The Metropolitan City of Naples (Italian: Città metropolitana di Napoli) is an Italian Metropolitan City in Campania region, established on January 1, 2015. Its capital city is Naples; within the city there are 92 municipalities. It was first created by the reform of local authorities (Law 142/1990) and then established by the Law 56/2014.
The Metropolitan City of Naples is headed by the Metropolitan Mayor (Sindaco metropolitano) and by the Metropolitan Council (Consiglio metropolitano). Since 1 January 2015 its head is Luigi de Magistris, as mayor of the capital city.
The metropolitan city of Naples has some peculiarities that distinguish it clearly from other Italian metropolitan cities: besides having a vulnerable seismic and volcanic activity, due to the presence of Vesuvius and Campi Flegrei, its territory occupies only 8.6% the surface of the Campania (13,590 km²), while it concentrates more than half of the entire regional population. This phenomenon of overcrowding has created a strong demographic and territorial imbalance with the other four provinces in Campania.
The Neapolitan area is the 96th on 110 Italian provinces and metropolitan cities by extension. Its area, 1,171 km² including islands, is smaller than the surface of the comune of Rome (1,287 km²).
The substrate of the municipalities varies widely, ranging from 1.62 to 117.27 km² of Casavatore km² of capital; 60% of the municipalities are small (less than or equal to 10 km²), 36% of medium-sized (> 10 km² and ≤ 25 km²), the rest (11%) more than 25 km² and, of this, only two municipalities (Acerra and Giugliano) are between 50 and 100 km² and only the municipality of Naples exceeds 100 km².
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