Bordeaux 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 ...

Bordeaux Bordeaux ( ; ; Gascon language, Gascon ; ) is a city on the river Garonne in the Gironde Departments of France, department, southwestern France. A port city, it is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the Prefectures in F ...

. It is located in the center of the Gironde department, in the

Nouvelle-Aquitaine Nouvelle-Aquitaine () is the largest Regions of France, administrative region in France by area, spanning the west and southwest of Metropolitan France. The region was created in 2014 by the merging of Aquitaine, Limousin, and Poitou-Charentes ...

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, in South West France. It represents about half of the department's population. 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 Bordeaux''. It brings together 28 municipalities,Bordeaux Métropole (N° SIREN : 243300316)
BANATIC. Accessed 17 October 2024. and covers an area of . Its population was 801,041 in 2018, of which 257,068 resided in Bordeaux proper. Bordeaux Métropole encompasses only the central part of the metropolitan area of Bordeaux (see infobox at

article for the metropolitan area). Communes further away from the center of the metropolitan area have formed their own intercommunal structures, such as: * Communauté de communes de Montesquieu * Communauté de communes des Coteaux Bordelais * Communauté de communes Les Rives de la Laurence * Communauté de communes Jalle Eau Bourde * etc.

History

The Urban Community of Bordeaux (French: ''

de Bordeaux''), also known by its French initials CUB, was created in 1966 by the law of 31 December on urban communities which instituted the urban communities of Bordeaux, Lille, Lyon and Strasbourg. On 1 January 2015, the Métropole replaced the Urban Community in accordance with a law of January 2014.

Communes

The 28 communes of Bordeaux Métropole are:Intercommunalité : Bordeaux Métropole
INSEE # Ambarès-et-Lagrave # Ambès # Artigues-près-Bordeaux # Bassens # Bègles # Blanquefort #

# Bouliac # Le Bouscat # Bruges # Carbon-Blanc # Cenon # Eysines # Floirac # Gradignan # Le Haillan # Lormont # Martignas-sur-Jalle # Mérignac # Parempuyre # Pessac # Saint-Aubin-de-Médoc # Saint-Louis-de-Montferrand # Saint-Médard-en-Jalles # Saint-Vincent-de-Paul # Le Taillan-Médoc # Talence # Villenave-d'Ornon

Administration

The Metropolitan Council consists of 101 members, one of them being the president, currently Alain Juppé, the mayor of Bordeaux.

Presidents of Metropolitan Bordeaux

References

External links

* * Metropolis in France Bordeaux Intercommunalities of Gironde {{Gironde-geo-stub