The Nantes Metropolis (, ) is the '' métropole'', an intercommunal structure, centred on the

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Nantes Nantes (, ; ; or ; ) is a city in the Loire-Atlantique department of France on the Loire, from the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic coast. The city is the List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, sixth largest in France, with a pop ...

. It is located in the Loire-Atlantique department, in the Pays de la Loire

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, western

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. It was created in January 2015, replacing the previous '' Communauté urbaine de Nantes''. Its area is 523.4 km². Its population was 636,013 in 2018, of which 314,138 in Nantes proper.Comparateur de territoire
INSEE. 4 April 2022. The metropolis is a member of the Nantes - Saint-Nazaire and Loire-Bretagne metropolitan clusters, as well as the Eurocities network, of which it chaired the Culture Forum in 2009.

History

The Communauté urbaine de Nantes was founded in 2001. On January 1, 2015, the Metropolis replaced the Urban Community in accordance with a law of January 2014.

Administration

The Metropolitan Council consists of 97 members, one of them being the president, currently Johanna Rolland, the mayor of Nantes.

Composition

The 24 communes of the métropole are:Nantes Métropole (N° SIREN : 244400404)
BANATIC. Accessed 17 October 2024.INSEE
/ref> Nantes Métropole encompasses only the center of the metropolitan area of Nantes (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 d'Erdre et Gesvres * Communauté de communes de Grand-Lieu * Communauté de communes Sèvre et Loire * etc.

References

External links

Nantes Métropole website

Tourist office

Nantes

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