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Administrative entity in France
A métropole (French pronunciation:
[metʁɔpɔl]
ⓘ; French for "metropolis") is an administrative entity in
France, in which several
communes cooperate, and which has the right to
levy local tax, an établissement public de coopération intercommunale à fiscalité propre. It is the most integrated form of
intercommunality in
France, more than the
communauté urbaine, the
communauté d'agglomération and the
Communauté de communes. The métropoles were created by a law of January 2014.
[1]
As of July 2019, there are 19 métropoles, and 2 métropoles with special status:
Paris and
Marseille (all in
metropolitan France).
[2] The
Metropolis of Lyon is a
territorial collectivity, not an intercommunality.
List of Métropoles
Name |
Seat |
Creation |
Number of communes |
Population (2019)
[2]
|
Bordeaux Métropole |
Bordeaux |
2015 |
28 |
814,049
|
Brest Métropole |
Brest |
2015 |
8 |
211,156
|
Clermont Auvergne Métropole |
Clermont-Ferrand |
2018 |
21 |
296,180
|
Dijon Métropole |
Dijon |
2017 |
24 |
255,127
|
Grenoble-Alpes Métropole |
Grenoble |
2015 |
49 |
446,612
|
Métropole Européenne de Lille |
Lille |
2015 |
90 |
1,179,050
|
Metz Métropole |
Metz |
2018 |
44 |
224,863
|
Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole |
Montpellier |
2015 |
31 |
491,417
|
Métropole du Grand Nancy |
Nancy |
2016 |
20 |
257,915
|
Nantes Métropole |
Nantes |
2015 |
24 |
665,204
|
Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur |
Nice |
2011 |
49 |
550,498
|
Orléans Métropole |
Orléans |
2017 |
22 |
288,229
|
Rennes Métropole |
Rennes |
2015 |
43 |
457,416
|
Métropole Rouen Normandie |
Rouen |
2015 |
71 |
494,299
|
Saint-Étienne Métropole |
Saint-Étienne |
2018 |
53 |
405,479
|
Eurométropole de Strasbourg |
Strasbourg |
2015 |
33 |
505,272
|
Métropole Toulon Provence Méditerranée |
Toulon |
2018 |
12 |
443,229
|
Toulouse Métropole |
Toulouse |
2015 |
37 |
796,203
|
Tours Métropole Val de Loire |
Tours |
2017 |
22 |
296,074
|
Metropolis with special status
|
Aix-Marseille-Provence |
Marseille |
2016 |
92 |
1,898,561
|
Grand Paris |
Paris |
2016 |
131 |
7,094,649
|
References