métropole
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thumb|Métropoles on map A '''' (; 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 , the communauté d'agglomération and the Communauté de communes''. The métropoles were created by a law of January 2014.
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- topic's main category
- Category:Metropolis in France
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- Metropoles in France
- inception
- 2010-00-00
- code
- 7344
- applies to jurisdiction
- France
- catalog code
- 7344
- name
- métropole
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thumb|Métropoles on map A '''' (; 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 , the communauté d'agglomération and the Communauté de communes''. The métropoles were created by a law of January 2014.
As of January 2025, there are 19 métropoles, and 2 métropoles with special status: Paris and Marseille (all in metropolitan France). Although the official name of the Metropolis of Lyon contains the word "métropole", legally, it is a territorial collectivity.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “métropole” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.