Padua–Treviso–Venice metropolitan area

The Padua–Treviso–Venice metropolitan area (PaTreVe) or Venice city–region is the urban agglomeration centred on the cities of Padova, Treviso, and Venice in the Veneto region of northeast Italy.[http://www2.regione.veneto.it/videoinf/giornale/03/veneto_city.htm Global Veneto - Information from the Veneto Regional Council ] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120602232729/http://www2.regione.veneto.it/videoinf/giornale/03/veneto_city.htm |date=2012-06-02 }} It is defined statistically and does not correspond to a single area of local government. Administratively it comprises the communes (municipalities) of the three cities plus another 240 communes (104 in the province of Padua, 95 in the province of Treviso and 44 in the province of Venice).[https://books.google.com/books?id=b3Vzk0BFb24C&pg=PA31 OECD Territorial Reviews: Venice, Italy 2010][http://www.coses.it/fondaci/f_venezia8.html PaTreVe, Strategic plan of the Venice Municipality]

The metropolitan area has a total population of 2,600,000.{{Cite web |url=http://mattinopadova.gelocal.it/cronaca/2010/10/28/news/l-ocse-pa-tre-ve-con-un-pil-e-una-crescita-da-record-2619791 |title=Ocse: Pa-Tre-Ve, a record GDP Growth – Il Mattino di Padova |access-date=2012-05-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101103074510/http://mattinopadova.gelocal.it/cronaca/2010/10/28/news/l-ocse-pa-tre-ve-con-un-pil-e-una-crescita-da-record-2619791 |archive-date=2010-11-03 |url-status=dead }}