List of metropolitan areas in Venezuela

List of metropolitan areas in Venezuela according to the Instituto Nacional de Estadistica (2013).^[1]

Metropolitan areas

rank	metropolitan areas	core cities	states	population[2] (2013)	Land area[3]	Population density in km2[4] (2013)	Image
1	Greater Caracas	Caracas	Capital District, Miranda, Vargas	5,243,301	4715.1	1,223.41
	Metropolitan District of Caracas	Caracas, Petare, Baruta, Chacao, El Hatillo	Capital District and Miranda	3,273,863	777.1	4212.9
	Valles del Tuy Metropolitan Area	Ocumare del Tuy, Charallave, Santa Teresa del Tuy, Cúa	Miranda	754,081	1694	445.14
	Guarenas-Guatire conurbation	Guarenas, Guatire		473,728	558	848.97
	Altos Mirandinos Metropolitan Area	Los Teques, San Antonio de Los Altos		454,929	744	611.46
	Litoral Varguense conurbation	Maiquetia, Catia La Mar, Caraballeda, La Guaira	Vargas	341,325	942	362.34
2	Maracaibo Metropolitan Area	Maracaibo, San Francisco, Jesús Enrique Lossada, Mara, La Cañada de Urdaneta	Zulia	2,487,471	9,010	276.07
3	Valencia Metropolitan Area	Valencia, San Diego, Naguanagua, Tocuyito, San Joaquín, Güigüe, Mariara, Los Guayos, Guacara	Carabobo	2,074,329	2,799	741.09
4	Barquisimeto Metropolitan Area	Barquisimeto, Cabudare	Lara	1,291,670	3,200	403.64
5	Maracay Metropolitan Area	Maracay, Cagua, Turmero, El Limón, Santa Cruz, Palo Negro, Santa Ritz	Aragua	1,249,704	832.57	1,501
6	Ciudad Guayana	Puerto Ordaz, San Félix	Bolívar	851,071	1,612	527.95
7	Barcelona-Puerto La Cruz Metropolitan Area	Barcelona, Puerto La Cruz, Lechería, Guanta	Anzóategui	801,071	2,029	394.81
	Barcelona	Simón Bolívar Municipality		465,989	1,706	273.14
	Puerto La Cruz	Sotillo Municipality		272,231	244	1,115.70
	Lechería	Diego Bautista Urbaneja Municipality		29,767	12	2,480.58
	Guanta	Guanta Municipality		33,835	67	505
8	Costa Oriental del Lago	Cabimas, Ciudad Ojeda, Lagunillas, Los Puertos de Altagracia,	Zulia	758,957	8,251	91.98
	-	Cabimas		280,171	604	463.85
	-	Ciudad Ojeda-El Danto-Tía Juana-Lagunillas		261,404	1,233[5]	212
	-	Los Puertos de Altagracia-Sabaneta de Palmas		76,243	1,966	38.78
	-	Mene Grande		61,960	2,816	22
	-	Bachaquero		48,402	1,127	42.94
	-	Santa Rita		30,777	505	60.90
9	San Cristóbal Metropolitan Area	San Cristóbal, Táriba, Palmira, Cordero, Capacho Viejo, Capacho Nuevo, San Josecito	Táchira	628,627	963	652.77
10	Maturín	-	Monagas	472,909[6]	(no exact data for city/urban area)	-
11	Mérida Metropolitan Area	Mérida, Tabay, Ejido, Lagunillas	Mérida	447,269	2,636	169.67
12	Acarigua-Araure Metropolitan Area	Acarigua, Araure	Portuguesa	393,854	1,065	369.81
13	Ciudad Bolívar	-	Bolívar	380,953	585	65.10
14	Cumaná	-	Sucre	374,706	598	626.59
15	Barinas	Barinas, Barinitas	Barinas	355,413	-	-