Grenoble metropolitan area
[1] It has 714,799 inhabitants (2018) in an area of 2,876 km2 (1,110 sq mi), which is 39% of the Isère department.
[2] Grenoble and 15 other communes form the pôle urbain or urban cluster, the other 188 communes form the couronne or commuter belt.
[3] The most populous communes in the functional area are Grenoble, Échirolles, Fontaine, Meylan, Le Pont-de-Claix, Saint-Égrève, Saint-Martin-d'Hères, Sassenage, Seyssinet-Pariset and Voiron,[4] all except Voiron part of the pôle urbain.
[3] It is the 11th-most populous functional urban area in France.
The communes of the functional area of Grenoble are:[1] This statistic-based metropolitan area is divided into multiple administrative divisions.
Central commune
Primary urban cluster
Peripheral commune
Peripheral commune of a functional area with less than 200,000 inhabitants