Clermont Auvergne Métropole () is the '' métropole'', an intercommunal structure, centred on the
city
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Puy-de-Dôme
Puy-de-Dôme (; or ''lo Puèi Domat'') is a department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in the centre of France. In 2021, it had a population of 662,285.department, in the
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
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region
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, central
France
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. It was created in January 2018, replacing the '' communauté urbaine'' that had replaced the previous ''
communauté d'agglomération
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Clermont-Communauté'' in January 2017. Its area is 300.6 km2. Its population was 294,127 in 2018, of which 146,734 in Clermont-Ferrand proper.Comparateur de territoire INSEE. Accessed 4 April 2022.