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A métropole (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 (all in metropolitan France).[2] The Metropolis of Lyon is a territorial collectivity, not an intercommunality.

List of Metropolis

Name Seat Creation Number of communes Population (2015)[2]
Bordeaux Métropole Bordeaux 2015 28 787,107
Brest Métropole Brest 2015 8 213,462
Clermont Auvergne Métropole Clermont-Ferrand 2018 21 293,125
Dijon Métropole Dijon 2017 24 251,650
Grenoble-Alpes Métropole Grenoble 2015 49 452,687
Métropole Européenne de Lille Lille 2015 90 1,155,161
Metz Métropole Metz 2018 44 224,904
Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole Montpellier 2015 31 465,407
Métropole du Grand Nancy Nancy 2016 20 262,162
Nantes Métropole Nantes 2015 24 646,513
Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur Nice 2011 49 544,819
Orléans Métropole Orléans 2017 22 289,233
Rennes Métropole Rennes 2015 43 450,639
Métropole Rouen Normandie Rouen 2015 71 498,822
Saint-Étienne Métropole Saint-Étienne 2018 53 409,382
Eurométropole de Strasbourg Strasbourg 2015 33 494,272
Métropole Toulon Provence Méditerranée Toulon 2018 12 437,460
Toulouse Métropole Toulouse 2015 37 768,494
Tours Métropole Val de Loire Tours 2017 22 299,177
Metropolis with special status
Aix-Marseille-Provence Marseille 2016 92 1,895,060
Grand Paris Paris 2016 131 7,086,571

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