Greater Buenos Aires
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Greater Buenos Aires (Spanish: Gran Buenos Aires) is the metropolitan area of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, which consists of the following 24 partidos (administrative subdivisions) of the Province of Buenos Aires:
- Almirante Brown (cities of Adrogué, Burzaco, Longchamps and Glew)
- Avellaneda (cities of Avellaneda, Wilde, Dock Sud and Sarandí)
- Berazategui (cities of Berazategui, Hudson and Ranelagh)
- Esteban Echeverría (city of Monte Grande)
- Ezeiza (cities of Ezeiza and Tristán Suárez and Spegazzini)
- Florencio Varela (city of Florencio Varela)
- General San Martín (cities of San Martín, Villa Ballester and José León Suárez)
- Hurlingham (cities of Hurlingham, William Morris and Villa Tesei)
- Ituzaingó (cities of Ituzaingó and Parque Leloir)
- José C. Paz (city of José C. Paz)
- La Matanza (cities of San Justo, Ramos Mejía, Laferrère and González Catán)
- Lanús (cities of Lanús and Remedios de Escalada)
- Lomas de Zamora (cities of Banfield, Lomas de Zamora and Temperley)
- Malvinas Argentinas (cities of Grand Bourg, Los Polvorines and Tortuguitas)
- Merlo (cities of Merlo, Libertad, Padua and Mariano Acosta)
- Moreno (cities of Moreno and Paso del Rey)
- Morón (cities of Morón, Castelar, El Palomar and Haedo)
- Quilmes (cities of Quilmes, Bernal and Solano)
- San Fernando (cities of San Fernando and Victoria)
- San Isidro (cities of San Isidro, Boulogne Sur Mer, Martínez and Beccar)
- San Miguel (city of San Miguel)
- Tigre (cities of Tigre, Don Torcuato and Pacheco)
- Tres de Febrero (cities of Caseros, Ciudadela, Villa Bosch and Pablo Podestá)
- Vicente López (city of Vicente López)
Urban sprawl, especially in the years 1940 to 1960, created a vast conurbation which had 9,270,661 inhabitants in 2001 in the above-mentioned partidos and a total of 12,046,799 including the city of Buenos Aires proper.