Kollam Metropolitan Area or Kollam Urban Agglomeration is the 10th largest urban agglomeration in South India and 7th largest in Kerala.The metropolitan area, constituted on the basis of 2011 census data, consists of Kollam Municipal Corporation (Quilon), 2 municipalities, 22 Panchayaths and parts of 2 Panchayaths. The two municipalities are Paravur and Karunagappalli.