The Nantes Metropolis (french: Nantes Métropole) is the ''
métropole
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''. ...
'', an
intercommunal structure, centred on the
city
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of
Nantes
Nantes (, , ; Gallo: or ; ) is a city in Loire-Atlantique on the Loire, from the Atlantic coast. The city is the sixth largest in France, with a population of 314,138 in Nantes proper and a metropolitan area of nearly 1 million inhabita ...
. It is located in the
Loire-Atlantique department, in the
Pays de la Loire region
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, western
France
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. It was created in January 2015, replacing the previous ''
Communauté urbaine de Nantes''.
Its area is 523.4 km
2. Its population was 636,013 in 2018, of which 314,138 in Nantes proper.
[Comparateur de territoire]
INSEE. 4 April 2022.
The metropolis is a member of the Nantes -
Saint-Nazaire and Loire-Bretagne metropolitan clusters, as well as the Eurocities network, of which it chaired the Culture Forum in 2009.
History
The
Communauté urbaine de Nantes was founded in 2001. On January 1, 2015, the Metropolis replaced the Urban Community in accordance with a law of January 2014.
Administration
The Metropolitan Council consists of 97 members, one of them being the president, currently
Johanna Rolland, the mayor of Nantes.
Composition
The 24 communes of the métropole are:
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Nantes Métropole encompasses only the center of the metropolitan area of Nantes (see infobox at Nantes
Nantes (, , ; Gallo: or ; ) is a city in Loire-Atlantique on the Loire, from the Atlantic coast. The city is the sixth largest in France, with a population of 314,138 in Nantes proper and a metropolitan area of nearly 1 million inhabita ...
article for the metropolitan area). Communes further away from the center of the metropolitan area have formed their own intercommunal structures, such as:
* Communauté de communes d'Erdre et Gesvres
* Communauté de communes de Grand-Lieu
* Communauté de communes Sèvre et Loire
* etc.
References
External links
Nantes Métropole website
Tourist office
Nantes
Nantes (, , ; Gallo: or ; ) is a city in Loire-Atlantique on the Loire, from the Atlantic coast. The city is the sixth largest in France, with a population of 314,138 in Nantes proper and a metropolitan area of nearly 1 million inhabita ...
Nantes
Nantes
Nantes (, , ; Gallo: or ; ) is a city in Loire-Atlantique on the Loire, from the Atlantic coast. The city is the sixth largest in France, with a population of 314,138 in Nantes proper and a metropolitan area of nearly 1 million inhabita ...
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