Communauté urbaine Limoges Métropole is the ''

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 ...

'', 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 ...

Limoges Limoges ( , , ; , locally ) is a city and Communes of France, commune, and the prefecture of the Haute-Vienne Departments of France, department in west-central France. It was the administrative capital of the former Limousin region. Situated o ...

. It is located in the

Haute-Vienne Haute-Vienne (; , ; Upper Vienne) is a département in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in southwest-central France. Named after the Vienne River, it is one of the twelve départements that together constitute Nouvelle-Aquitaine. The prefecture an ...

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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, southwestern

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. It was created in November 2002 as the ''

Communauté d'agglomération An agglomeration community (, ) is a consortium of communes in France, communes (municipality, municipalities) in France, created as a government structure by the Jean-Pierre Chevènement, Chevènement Law of 1999. It is one of four forms of co ...

Limoges Métropole'', which was transformed into a communauté urbaine on 1 January 2019. Its area is 520.6 km². Its population was 207,385 in 2018, of which 131,479 in Limoges proper.Comparateur de territoire
INSEE, accessed 5 April 2022.

Composition

The communauté d'agglomération consists of the following 20 communes:CU Limoges Métropole (N° SIREN : 248719312)
BANATIC. Accessed 17 October 2024.Intercommunalité : Communauté urbaine Limoges Métropole
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Aureil Aureil (; ) is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in western France. Hamlets *Main village with its town hall, school and church *Bost-Las-Mongeas: about 20 houses, mainly old, and an old chapel now part o ...

# Boisseuil # Bonnac-la-Côte # Chaptelat # Condat-sur-Vienne # Couzeix # Eyjeaux # Feytiat # Isle #

Le Palais-sur-Vienne Le Palais-sur-Vienne (; ) is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in west-central France France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its ov ...

Panazol Panazol (; ) is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in west-central France. It is an eastern suburb of Limoges. Panazol is the third largest town in the department (by population), after Limoges and Saint-J ...

# Peyrilhac # Rilhac-Rancon #

Saint-Gence Saint-Gence (; ) is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in west-central France. Demographics Inhabitants are known as ''Saint-Gençois'' in French. Entertainment There is an annual food and wine festiva ...

Saint-Just-le-Martel Saint-Just-le-Martel (; Limousin: ''Sent Just (dau Martèu)'') is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in west-central France. Population See also *Communes of the Haute-Vienne department The following i ...

Solignac Solignac (; ) is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in west-central France. Geography The village lies on the right bank of the Briance, which flows westward through the commune. It contains the former A ...

# Verneuil-sur-Vienne # Veyrac # Le Vigen

References

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