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''. I ...

'', an intercommunal structure, centred on the

city A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be def ...

of Nantes. It is located in the Loire-Atlantique department, in the Pays de la Loire

region In geography, regions, otherwise referred to as zones, lands or territories, are areas that are broadly divided by physical characteristics ( physical geography), human impact characteristics ( human geography), and the interaction of humanity an ...

, western

France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan area ...

. It was created in January 2015, replacing the previous ''

Communauté urbaine Communauté urbaine (French for "urban community") is the second most integrated form of intercommunality in France, after the ''Metropolis'' (french: link=no, métropole). A ''communauté urbaine'' is composed of a city ( commune) and its indep ...

de Nantes''. Its area is 523.4 km². 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

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:Nantes Métropole (N° SIREN : 244400404)
BANATIC. Accessed 4 April 2022.INSEE
/ref> Nantes Métropole encompasses only the center of the metropolitan area of Nantes (see infobox at Nantes article for the metropolitan area).

Communes An intentional community is a voluntary residential community which is designed to have a high degree of social cohesion and teamwork from the start. The members of an intentional community typically hold a common social, political, relig ...

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
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