Urban area (France)
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.
As of 2010, depending on their population and function, aires urbaines adopt the following secondary appellations: In France, multiple words exist to define various kinds of urban area.
As a member of the European Union and the OECD, for statistical purposes, France may need to consider the regions inside or outside of the limits of an urban area.
The following is a list of the twenty largest aires urbaines (metropolitan areas) in France, based on their population at the 2016 census.
In both time intervals presented in the table below (2006 to 2011 and 2011 to 2016), the fastest-growing metropolitan areas in France were Bordeaux, Montpellier, Toulouse, Nantes, Rennes and Lyon with an average annual growth rate equal or greater than 1%.
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Urban areas
of France in 2010, broken down by communes:
Red:
urban communes also urban poles of an urban area
Orange:
other urban communes in a single urban area
Yellow:
urban communes linked to at least two urban areas
White:
rural communes
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