The urban unit of Grenoble (french: unité urbaine de Grenoble) is a French
urban unit
In France, an urban unit (''fr: "unité urbaine"'') is a statistical area defined by INSEE, the French national statistics office, for the measurement of contiguously built-up areas. According to the INSEE definition , an "unité urbaine" is a ...
centred on the city of
Grenoble
lat, Gratianopolis
, commune status = Prefecture and commune
, image = Panorama grenoble.png
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, caption = From upper left: Panorama of the city, Grenoble’s cable cars, place Saint- ...
. An urban unit is a contiguously built-up area with at least 2,000 inhabitants, according to the definition by the French statistics institute
INSEE. In the current zoning, revised in 2020, it consists of 38 communes.
[Unité urbaine 2020 de Grenoble (38701)]
INSEE It covers 358.1 km
2 and has 451,096 inhabitants (2018), population density 1260 /km
2.
Comparateur de territoire. Unité urbaine 2020 de Grenoble (38701)
INSEE The urban unit largely overlaps with, but should not be confused with, the administrative entity Grenoble-Alpes Métropole
Grenoble-Alpes Métropole is the ''métropole'', an intercommunal structure, centred on the city of Grenoble. It is located in the Isère department, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, eastern France. It was created in January 2015, replacing t ...
.
See also
*Grenoble metropolitan area
Grenoble metropolitan area (french: aire d'attraction de Grenoble) as defined by INSEE in 2020 is the functional urban area of the city of Grenoble, southeastern France. It covers 204 communes, all in the Isère department.
References
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Grenoble