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The population density in Buenos Aires proper was 13,680 inhabitants per square kilometer (35,400 inhabitants/sq mi), but only about 2,400/km 2 (6,200/sq mi) in the suburbs. [79] Buenos Aires' population has hovered around 3 million since 1947, due to low birth rates and a slow migration to the suburbs.
Argentina is highly urbanized, [9] with the ten largest metropolitan areas accounting for half of the population, and fewer than one in ten living in rural areas. About 3 million people live in Buenos Aires proper, and including suburban Greater Buenos Aires the metropolitan area totals around 14 million - making it one of the 15 largest urban areas in the world. [12]
The term Gran Buenos Aires ("Greater Buenos Aires") was first officially used in 1948, when Governor of Buenos Aires Province Domingo Mercante signed a bill delineating as such an area covering 14 municipalities surrounding the City of Buenos Aires. [ 6 ] The term is also related to other expressions that are not necessarily well-defined: the ...
The INDEC estimates that the population of Buenos Aires Province was 17,541,141 on 1 July 2020, [15] a 12.26% increase since the 2010 national census. According to that census, there were 15 million inhabitants (38% of the national population), of which 12 million lived in Greater Buenos Aires and 3 million in the rest of the province.
Rank City Province 2010 Census 2001 Census 1 Buenos Aires: Autonomous city: 2,936,877 2,890,150 2 Córdoba Córdoba 1,317,298 1,308,072 3 Rosario Santa Fe 1,193,605
Boca. Buenos Aires, autonomous city and capital of Argentina, is composed of forty-eight neighborhoods (locally known as barrios). Since 2008, the city is also legally divided into communes, each one including one or more barrios. Among the most visited and populated barrios are Palermo, Recoleta, Puerto Madero, Belgrano, San Telmo, La Boca ...
Rank Name Province Pop. Rank Name Province Pop. Buenos Aires Córdoba: 1: Buenos Aires (Autonomous city) 3,003,000: 11: Resistencia: Chaco: 418,000 Rosario Mendoza: 2 ...
The division by comunas was instituted by the 1996 Constitution of the City of Buenos Aires, [4] and modified in 2005 by Law #1777. [5] The law was again modified in 2008, [ 6 ] 2011, [ 7 ] and 2013. [ 8 ]