Milan

Milan Lombard, Milanese variant Milan is the capital of Lombardy, the most rich and populated region in Italy. Located in southern Europe, the city spans a total of 181.8160sq km160 the population of the city proper is 1.3 million, the 2ndlargest populated Italian municipality after Rome. The Milanese urban area is of 5.5 million, the 5thlargest in the EU, while Greater Milan is a polycentric area oftomillion people. Milan is part of the socalled Blue Banana in terms of GDP, the city has the 3rdlargest economy among EU cities after London and Paris, and the largest among European noncapital cities.

The early period coincided with the socalled Italian economic miracle of postwar years, an era of extraordinary growth based on rapid industrial expansion and great public works, that brought to the city a large influx of over 400,000 people, mainly from rural and overpopulated Southern Italy. In the last three decades, the foreign born share of the population soared. Immigrants came mainly from Africa , and the former socialist countries of Eastern Europe , in addition to a growing number of Asians and Latin Americans . At the beginning of the 1990s, Milan already had a population of foreignborn residents of approximately 58,000 , that rose rapidly to over 117,000 by the end of the decade .

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