The Budapest Metropolitan Area (Hungarian: Budapesti agglomeráció) is a metropolitan area in Central Hungary. It consists of Budapest capital and the surrounding suburbs. It has a population of 2.525 million (2010). The real periphery of Budapest, named Budapest Commuter Area (established by the government in 2005) encompasses 193 settlements around the city, most of them are in Pest County while some are Budapest-surrounding cities generating huge commuter traffic with the capital. The total size of the area is 7,626 km² (2,944 sq mi) with about 3.3 million inhabitants (one-third of Hungary's total population). Budapest itself stretches over 525 km² (203 sq mi) and has a population c. 1.72 million.