Métropole du Grand Nancy () is the ''
métropole
A (; 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 mo ...
'', an
intercommunal structure, centred on the
city
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of
Nancy. It is located in the
Meurthe-et-Moselle department, in the
Grand Est
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region
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, northeastern
France
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. It was created in July 2016, replacing the previous ''
Communauté urbaine
(; French for "urban community") is the second most integrated form of intercommunality in France, after the ''Metropolis'' (). A is composed of a city ( commune) and its independent suburbs (independent communes).
The first communautés urba ...
du Grand Nancy''.
Its area is 142.3 km
2. Its population was 257,431 in 2018, of which 104,885 in Nancy proper.
[Comparateur de territoire]
INSEE. 4 April 2022.
History
The Urban Community of Greater Nancy (
French: ''Communauté urbaine du Grand Nancy''), was created in 1996. On July 1, 2016, the Metropolitan community replaced the Urban Community in accordance with a decree of April 2016.
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Member communes
The 20 communes of the metropolis are:[Métropole du Grand Nancy (N° SIREN : 245400676)]
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# Art-sur-Meurthe
# Dommartemont
# Essey-lès-Nancy
# Fléville-devant-Nancy
# Heillecourt
# Houdemont
# Jarville-la-Malgrange
# Laneuveville-devant-Nancy
# Laxou
# Ludres
# Malzéville
# Maxéville
# Nancy
# Pulnoy
# Saint-Max
# Saulxures-lès-Nancy
# Seichamps
# Tomblaine
# Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy
# Villers-lès-Nancy
Administration
The Metropolitan Council consists of 80 members, one of them being the president, currently André Rossinot, the former mayor of Nancy.
References
External links
Greater Nancy website
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Nancy
Nancy
Nancy, France