Toulouse Métropole () is one of 20 French metropolises, an intercommunal structure, centred on the

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Toulouse Toulouse (, ; ; ) is a city in southern France, the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Haute-Garonne department and of the Occitania (administrative region), Occitania region. The city is on the banks of the Garonne, River Garonne, from ...

. Located in the

Haute-Garonne Haute-Garonne (; , ; ''Upper Garonne'') is a department in the southwestern French region of Occitanie. Named after the river Garonne, which flows through the department. Its prefecture and main city is Toulouse, the country's fourth-largest. ...

department, in the Occitanie

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, southern

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. Created in January 2015, it replaced the previous . With an area of 458.2 km², and a population of 783,353 in 2018, of which 486,828 are in Toulouse proper.Comparateur de territoire
INSEE. 4 April 2022. It is the 5th largest metropolis after Greater Paris, , Lille-Europe and

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 ...

. The annual budget is €1,4 billion (2015).

History

Created on 1 January 2015, it succeeded the urban community of Toulouse, which had itself succeeded in 2009 and 2001 from previous districts created in 1992 with less power than either the urban community or the current metropolitan region.

Geography

Due to local political feuds, Toulouse Métropole only hosts 59% of the population of the metropolitan area (see infobox at

article for the metropolitan area), the other independent communes of the metropolitan area having refused to join in, notably Muret and the technopolis of Labège-Innopole. Consequently, the other parts of the metropolitan area have formed different intercommunal structures, such as: * Communauté d'agglomération Le Muretain Agglo * Communauté d'agglomération du Sicoval, with Labège-Innopole in it * Communauté de communes de la Save au Touch * etc.

Member communes

The 37 communes of Toulouse Métropole are:Toulouse Métropole (N° SIREN : 243100518)
BANATIC. Accessed 17 October 2024.Intercommunalité : Toulouse Métropole
INSEE # Aigrefeuille # Aucamville # Aussonne #

Balma Balma (; ) is a Communes of France, commune in the Haute-Garonne Departments of France, department in southwestern France. It is east of Toulouse. The name of the town comes from the old Provençal dialect, Provençal word meaning "cave" or "gr ...

# Beaupuy # Beauzelle #

Blagnac Blagnac (; ) is a Communes of France, commune of the greater Toulouse area in the Haute-Garonne Departments of France, department in southwestern France. The city hosts the aviation museum Aeroscopia. It is the third-largest suburb of the city o ...

# Brax # Bruguières # Castelginest # Colomiers # Cornebarrieu # Cugnaux # Drémil-Lafage # Fenouillet # Flourens # Fonbeauzard # Gagnac-sur-Garonne # Gratentour # Launaguet # Lespinasse # Mondonville # Mondouzil #

Mons Mons commonly refers to: * Mons, Belgium, a city in Belgium * Mons pubis (mons Venus or mons veneris), in mammalian anatomy, the adipose tissue lying above the pubic bone * Mons (planetary nomenclature), a sizable extraterrestrial mountain * Batt ...

# Montrabé # Pibrac # Pin-Balma # Quint-Fonsegrives # Saint-Alban # Saint-Jean #

Saint-Jory Saint-Jory (; ) is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France. It is served by Saint-Jory station on the Bordeaux-Toulouse line. Population Sights The Château de Saint-Jory is a 16th-century castle which is listed as ...

# Saint-Orens-de-Gameville # Seilh #

# Tournefeuille # L'Union # Villeneuve-Tolosane

References

External links

Metropolitan Toulouse website
Toulouse Metropolis in France

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