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An aire urbaine (literal and official translation: "urban area") [1] is an INSEE (France's national statistics bureau) statistical concept describing a core of urban development and the extent of its commuter activity. It was replaced by the concept "functional area" (French: aire d'attraction des villes), which uses the same definition as ...
Communauté urbaine (French pronunciation: [kɔmynote yʁbɛn] ⓘ; French for "urban community") is the second most integrated form of intercommunality in France, after the Metropolis (French: métropole). A communauté urbaine is composed of a city (commune) and its independent suburbs (independent communes). The first communautés urbaines ...
In France, a banlieue (UK: / bɒnˈljuː /; [1] French: [bɑ̃ljø] ⓘ) 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 ...
The twenty arrondissements (French: "rounding") are arranged in the form of a clockwise spiral, often likened to a snail shell, [2] starting from the middle of the city, with the first on the Right Bank (north bank) of the Seine. In French, notably on street signs, the number is often given in Roman numerals.
One of the most affluent areas of France, it is the wealthiest and most expensive suburb of Paris. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Together with the 16th and 7th arrondissement of Paris , the town of Neuilly-sur-Seine forms the most affluent and prestigious residential area in the whole of France. [ 5 ]
The commune (French pronunciation: [kɔmȳ] ⓘ) 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.
Paris metropolitan area. Map showing the extent of the Paris metropolitan area as of 2020, when it included 1,929 communes and covered 18,941 km 2. The Paris metropolitan area (French: aire d'attraction de Paris) is a statistical area that describes the reach of commuter movement to and from Paris, France and its surrounding suburbs.
The French administrative terms département and région should not be used, except parenthetically in cases of ambiguity. Instead, the English-language terms "department" and "region" should be used. The English-language terms urban area and metropolitan area are inexact equivalents for the French terms aire urbaine and unité urbaine. Piped ...