The Bucharest Metropolitan Area (Romanian: Zona Metropolitană București) is a metropolitan area project formally established since 2016 that includes Bucharest, the capital city of Romania, and surrounding communes.

[9] According to Eurostat, Bucharest has a functional urban area of 2,412,530 residents (as of 2015[update]).

In an intermediate stage, the extension of the zone would include 62 out of the proposed 93 candidate localities.

[11] The "Bucharest Metropolitan Area" may become the biggest port on the Danube upon completion of the Danube–Bucharest Canal.

The enlarged "Metropolitan Area" Council will have 105 councilors, twice as many are now, and the Government will appoint a governor, a position which would be homologized to the prefect of Bucharest.