Lower Danube metropolitan area

The Danube metropolitan area or Galați-Brăila metropolitan area is a proposed metropolitan area project in Romania. It would be formed from the cities of Galați and Brăila. Together they have a population of about 430,000 people.
As defined by Eurostat, the Galați functional urban area has a population of 322,501 residents, whilst the Brăila functional urban area has a population of 217,645 residents.
Overview.
If completed, it would represent one of the largest metropolitan areas in Romania. Several major infrastructure projects have been proposed, or are being actively built: the Brăila–Galați expressway, a new airport in Vădeni, and a bridge (the Brăila Bridge) across the Danube connecting Brăila and Galați counties to Tulcea County.
The metropolitan area has a border checkpoint to Moldova and Ukraine. Galați is located from Giurgiulești and from Reni.