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ESPON areas
Please read the source for the report. The ESPON regions are counted in very specific ways per their methodology. They are not intended to give the full population of a town, or borough, only to identify contiguous urban areas which are then identified as reflecting some concept of a Metropolitan region. As the report has not been updated since 2001 it is almost functionally redundant, and typically Built Up Areas and Sub Divisions have supplanted them. Koncorde (talk) 03:30, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

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I took a look at the report. There is a large discrepancy in the EPSON 1.1.1 population listed in Table 3.92.2: the town (Bangor) is listed as 64K in that column, and 15K in the 'MUA's population' column (with a quick scan, I don't see any other differences anywhere near that large in the table).

I suspect the table compiler simply made a mistake, likely substituting **Bangor, Gwynedd (Wales)** (population ~15K) for Bangor N. Ireland. The latter is more than three times the size of the former, and the closeness of the number for the Welsh town is telling. Also, Bangor (N. Ireland) is a clearly demarcated town with discrete boundaries and no controversy about its functional, demographic or geographic boundaries (none that could account for a definition of the town with that small a population!). I leave it up to you whether to note this probable error in the report.