 In an initial stage, the zone would include Bucharest and Ilfov County.Then, there are several plans to further increase the "Metropolitan Area of Bucharest" to about 20 times the area of the city proper (from 228 km² to 5,046 km²).It would include 6 cities and 87 communes from the Ilfov, Giurgiu and Călăraşi counties, and would extend all the way towards the border with Bulgaria in the south, and towards the Prahova County in the north.