Editing Bilbao (section)

=== Districts ===

The municipality is divided into eight districts (Basque: ''barrutia'') which are further subdivided into 34 neighbourhoods (Basque: ''auzoa''). Most of the districts and neighbourhoods were former independent municipalities and [[elizate]]s that were eventually annexed into the city. Originally, the city of Bilbao comprised the Old Town and some houses on the left side of the estuary, today known as [[Bilbao la Vieja]]. The first expansion included the annexation of the elizate of [[Begoña]] and the river side of [[Uribarri]]. In the 19th century the merge of [[Abando]] into the city brought along small neighbourhoods of farm houses and hamlets that were clustered close to the former municipality's town hall and the [[Mount Cobetas]], such as [[Errekalde]] and [[Basurto-Zorroza|Basurto]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1= González|first1=Santiago |title=Una expansión organizada |url= http://www.periodistasvascos.com/imagenes/cap_4.pdf|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080724095306/http://www.periodistasvascos.com/imagenes/cap_4.pdf|url-status= dead|archive-date= 24 July 2008|journal=Bilbao 700 |page=120 |access-date=16 October 2008}}</ref> Starting in the 20th century it started annexing the elizates on the right bank of the river, including Begoña and [[Deusto]]. In the decade of 1960 as an effort to stop the increasing problem of [[slum]]s, new neighbourhoods were created from the ground up, among them Otxarkoaga and Txurdinaga, which were joined together as a new district, [[Otxarkoaga-Txurdinaga]] in the decade of 1990.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bilbao.net/castella/accion_social/publicaciones/estudio_otxarkoaga.pdf |title=Estudio sobre el barrio de Otxarkoaga |author=<!--Not stated--> |website=Bilbao City Hall |publisher=Municipal Government of Bilbao |access-date=16 October 2008 |archive-date=24 January 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090124082742/http://www.bilbao.net/castella/accion_social/publicaciones/estudio_otxarkoaga.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>

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|- style="background:#efefef;"
!  style="width:40px; text-align:center;"| <small>Number</small>
!  style="width:100px; text-align:center;"| <small>District</small>
!  style="width:400px; text-align:center;"| <small>Neighbourhoods</small>
!  style="width:50px; text-align:center;"| <small>Area<br/>(km<sup>2</sup>)</small>
!  style="width:50px; text-align:center;"| <small>Population<br/>(2009)<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.bilbao.net/castella/relaciones_ciudadanas/publicaciones/bilbao_en_cifras/2009/territorio_climatologia.pdf | title = Territorio y climatología | publisher = Ayuntamiento de Bilbao | access-date = 10 October 2010 | archive-date = 25 July 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110725125528/http://www.bilbao.net/castella/relaciones_ciudadanas/publicaciones/bilbao_en_cifras/2009/territorio_climatologia.pdf | url-status = live }}</ref></small>
!  style="width:300px; text-align:center;"| <small>Location</small>
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| <small>1</small>
| style="text-align:center;"| <small>[[Deusto]]</small>
| style="text-align:left;"| <small>''[[Arangoiti]]'', ''[[Ibarrekolanda]]'', ''[[San Ignacio-Elorrieta]]'', and ''[[San Pedro de Deusto-La Rivera]]''.</small>
| style="text-align:center;"| <small>4.95</small>
| style="text-align:center;"| <small>51,656</small>
| rowspan="8" style="text-align:center;"| {{Image label begin|image=Bilbao blank districts.svg|width=250|float=none}}
{{Image label small|x=0.22|y=0.20|scale=250|text='''[[Deusto]]'''}}
{{Image label small|x=0.54|y=0.25|scale=250|text='''[[Uribarri]]'''}}
{{Image label small|x=0.73|y=0.33|scale=250|text='''[[Otxarkoaga-Txurdinaga|Otxarkoaga-<br/>Txurdinaga]]'''}}
{{Image label small|x=0.65|y=0.51|scale=250|text='''[[Begoña]]'''}}
{{Image label small|x=0.51|y=0.73|scale=250|text='''[[Ibaiondo]]'''}}
{{Image label small|x=0.40|y=0.35|scale=250|text='''[[Abando]]'''}}
{{Image label small|x=0.22|y=0.65|scale=250|text='''[[Errekalde]]'''}}
{{Image label small|x=0.16|y=0.41|scale=250|text='''[[Basurto-Zorroza|Basurto-<br/>Zorroza]]'''}}
{{Image label end}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| <small>2</small>
| style="text-align:center;"| <small>[[Uribarri]]</small>
| style="text-align:left;"| <small>''[[Castaños (Bilbao)|Castaños]]'', ''[[Matiko-Ciudad Jardín]]'', ''[[Uribarri (neighbourhood)|Uribarri]]'', and ''[[Zurbaran-Arabella]]''.</small>
| style="text-align:center;"| <small>4.19</small>
| style="text-align:center;"| <small>38,335</small>
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| <small>3</small>
| style="text-align:center;"| <small>[[Otxarkoaga-Txurdinaga]]</small>
| style="text-align:left;"| <small>''[[Otxarkoaga]]'' and ''[[Txurdinaga]]''.</small>
| style="text-align:center;"| <small>3.90</small>
| style="text-align:center;"| <small>28,518</small>
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| <small>4</small>
| style="text-align:center;"| <small>[[Begoña]]</small>
| style="text-align:left;"| <small>''[[Begoña]]'', ''[[Bolueta]]'', and ''[[Santutxu]]''.</small>
| style="text-align:center;"| <small>1.77</small>
| style="text-align:center;"| <small>43,030</small>
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| <small>5</small>
| style="text-align:center;"| <small>[[Ibaiondo]]</small>
| style="text-align:left;"| <small>''[[Atxuri]]'', ''[[Bilbo Zarra|Bilbao La Vieja]]'', ''[[Casco Viejo]]'', ''[[Iturralde (Bilbao)|Iturralde]]'', ''[[La Peña, Bilbao|La Peña]]'', ''[[Miribilla]]'', ''[[San Adrián (Bilbao)|San Adrián]]'', ''[[San Francisco (Bilbao)|San Francisco]]'', ''[[Solokoetxe]]'', and ''[[Zabala (Bilbao)|Zabala]]''.</small>
| style="text-align:center;"| <small>9.65</small>
| style="text-align:center;"| <small>61,029</small>
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| <small>6</small>
| style="text-align:center;"| <small>[[Abando]]</small>
| style="text-align:left;"| <small>''[[Abando]]'' and ''[[Indautxu]]''.</small>
| style="text-align:center;"| <small>2.14</small>
| style="text-align:center;"| <small>51,718</small>
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| <small>7</small>
| style="text-align:center;"| <small>[[Errekalde]]</small>
| style="text-align:left;"| <small>''[[Amezola]]'', ''[[Iralabarri]]'', ''[[Iturrigorri-Peñascal]]'', ''[[Errekaldeberri-Larraskitu]]'', and ''[[Uretamendi]]''.</small>
| style="text-align:center;"| <small>6.96</small>
| style="text-align:center;"| <small>47,787</small>
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| <small>8</small>
| style="text-align:center;"| <small>[[Basurto-Zorroza]]</small>
| style="text-align:left;"| <small>''[[Altamira(Bilbao)|Altamira]]'', ''[[Basurto]]'', ''[[Olabeaga]]'', ''[[Masustegi-Monte Caramelo]]'', and ''[[Zorrotza]]''.</small>
| style="text-align:center;"| <small>7.09</small>
| style="text-align:center;"| <small>33,658</small>
|}