Brest Métropole () 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
A city is a human settlement of a substantial size. The term "city" has different meanings around the world and in some places the settlement can be very small. Even where the term is limited to larger settlements, there is no universally agree ...
of
Brest. It is located in the
Finistère department, in the
Brittany
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region
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, western
France
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. It was created in January 2015, 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 ...
de Brest''.
Its population was 215,367 in 2019, of which 142,555 in Brest proper.
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History
The Urban Community was founded in 1973. On January 1, 2015, the Métropole replaced the Urban Community in accordance with a law of January 2014.[
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Member communes
The Brest Métropole consists of the following 8 communes:[Brest Métropole (N° SIREN : 242900314)]
BANATIC. Accessed 17 October 2024.Intercommunalité : Brest Métropole
INSEE
Administration
The Metropolitan Council consists of 70 members, one of them being the president, currently François Cuillandre, the mayor of Brest.
References
External links
Brest Métropole website
Metropolis in France
Intercommunalities of Finistère
Brest, France
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