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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 20 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

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