A (pronounced as /fr/; 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 most integrated form of intercommunality in France, more than the French: [[communauté urbaine]], the communauté d'agglomération and the Communauté de communes. The métropoles were created by a law of January 2014.[1]
As of July 2019, there are 19 métropoles, and 2 métropoles with special status: Paris and Marseille (all in metropolitan France).[2] The Metropolis of Lyon is a territorial collectivity, not an intercommunality.
| Name | Seat | Creation | Number of communes | Population (2019) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 28 | 814,049 | |||
| 2015 | 8 | 211,156 | |||
| 2018 | 21 | 296,180 | |||
| 2017 | 24 | 255,127 | |||
| 2015 | 49 | 446,612 | |||
| 2015 | 90 | 1,179,050 | |||
| 2018 | 44 | 224,863 | |||
| 2015 | 31 | 491,417 | |||
| 2016 | 20 | 257,915 | |||
| 2015 | 24 | 665,204 | |||
| 2011 | 49 | 550,498 | |||
| 2017 | 22 | 288,229 | |||
| 2015 | 43 | 457,416 | |||
| 2015 | 71 | 494,299 | |||
| 2018 | 53 | 405,479 | |||
| 2015 | 33 | 505,272 | |||
| 2018 | 12 | 443,229 | |||
| 2015 | 37 | 796,203 | |||
| 2017 | 22 | 296,074 | |||
| Metropolis with special status | |||||
| 2016 | 92 | 1,898,561 | |||
| 2016 | 131 | 7,094,649 | |||