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The word banlieue, which is French for "suburb", does not necessarily refer to an environment of social disenfranchisement.Indeed, there exist many wealthy suburbs, such as Neuilly-sur-Seine (the wealthiest commune of France per capita) and Versailles (the former royal capital) outside Paris.
In France, a banlieue (UK: / b ɒ n ˈ lj uː /; [1] French: ⓘ) is a suburb of a large city, or all its suburbs taken collectively. Banlieues are divided into autonomous administrative entities and do not constitute part of the city proper. For instance, 80 percent of the inhabitants of the Paris metropolitan area live outside the city of ...
A communauté urbaine is composed of a city and its independent suburbs (independent communes). The first communautés urbaines were created by the French Parliament on 31 December 1966. Originally there were only four, found in the metropolitan areas of Bordeaux, Lille, Lyon and Strasbourg. Later, others were created in other metropolitan areas.
The area had a population of 13,064,617 as of 2018. [14] Nearly 20% of France's population resides in the region. The table below shows the population growth of the Paris metropolitan area (aire urbaine), i.e. the urban area (pôle urbain) and the commuter belt (couronne périurbaine) surrounding it.
All figures reflect the municipal population (French: population municipale), meaning people who have their usual residence in the commune, [2] excluding population counted apart. [3] The population of the matching urban unit is usually several times that of its central commune. Populations as of 2006 and 2013 are also shown.
The aire urbaine is built from France's nationwide interlocking administrative commune municipalities: when a commune has over 2000 inhabitants and contains a centre of dense construction (buildings spaced no more than 200 metres apart), it is combined with other adjoining communes fulfilling the same criteria to become a single unité urbaine ("urban unit" [4]); if an urban unit offers over ...
The commune (French pronunciation: ⓘ) is a level of administrative division in the French Republic. French communes are analogous to civil townships and incorporated municipalities in the United States and Canada, Gemeinden in Germany, comuni in Italy, or municipios in Spain. The UK equivalent are civil parishes.
Merge Allegations of French apartheid with Social situation in the French suburbs, and approach other articles on a case-by-case basis. WP:ALLORNOTHING is no solution to our problem. CJCurrie 21:44, 6 August 2007 (UTC) Merge for this article and the others in the "series".