Secondo il censimento, l’Attica ha circa 3,8 milioni di abitanti. Circa il 35-40% della popolazione totale della Grecia, pur occupando solo il 4 – 4,3% della terra del paese. Complessivamente, la metà di tutti i greci vive in soli 66 comuni, mentre copre solo il 2,8% del territorio della Grecia.

I’m always fascinated by the fact, that there is Athens, North Athens, West Athens, Central Athens and South Athens, while for population measures, only Athens is counted in most cases.

The Athens urban area has a population of 3 million inhabitants across 400 km², while only a bunch of cities in the European Union reach the threshold of 3 million inhabitants across 400 km². The City of Milan has 1.37 million people across 182 km², so Milan is unlikely to reach 3 million people with suburbs included across 400 km².

I’m pretty sure, that only Madrid, Barcelona and Paris are contenders for Athens. The Metropolitan City of Naples only has 2.96 million people across 1,170 km². Meanwhile, Berlin’s population density falls off pretty fast behind the Ringbahn.

Literally every central european/ balkan country is like big capital + few village towns. Some of this countries are basically city states with a backyard