Barcelona is the capital, most populous city of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain,
with a population of 1,615,908 in 2008. It is the eleventh-most populous municipality in the European Union and sixth-most
populous urban area in the European Union after Paris, London, Rhine-Ruhr Area, Madrid and Milan with the population 4,185,000.
4.9 million people live in Barcelona metropolitan area.