Milan (English /mɨˈlæn/ or US /məˈlɑːn/;^[3] Italian: Milano [miˈlaːno] ( listen); Milanese: Milan [miˈlã]), the second-most populous city in Italy, serves as the capital of Lombardy. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area (the 5th-largest in the EU) comprises an estimated 5,264,000 people.^[4] The enormous suburban sprawl that followed the post-war boom of the 1950s–1960s and the growth of a vast commuter belt suggest that socioeconomic linkages have expanded well beyond the boundaries of its administrative limits and its agglomeration,