Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost (, literally ''Saint-Maurice of Beynost'') is a commune in the Aindepartment, in the
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (ARA; ; frp, Ôvèrgne-Rôno-Ârpes; oc, Auvèrnhe Ròse Aups; it, Alvernia-Rodano-Alpi) is a region in southeast-central France created by the 2014 territorial reform of French regions; it resulted from the merger of Au ...
region
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, located at about from
Lyon
Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of ...
intercommunality
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of
communauté de communes de Miribel et du Plateau
The Communauté de communes de Miribel et du Plateau is a ''communauté de communes'' in the Ain ''département'' and in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes '' région'' of France. It was established on 31 December 1997.Artificial Silk". The need for workers in this factory led to a quadrupling of the population in just five years, between 1926 and 1931. Today, the factory, which belongs to the Japanese group
Toray Industries
is a multinational corporation headquartered in Japan that specializes in industrial products centered on technologies in organic synthetic chemistry, polymer chemistry, and biochemistry.
Its founding business areas were fibers and textiles, ...
, is still the main employer in the city with nearly five hundred employees.
The inhabitants of Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost are called ''Mauriciens''.
Communes of the Ain department
The following is a list of the 393 communes of the Ain department of France.
The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Canton of Miribel