Communauté urbaine du Grand Reims

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The Communauté urbaine du Grand Reims is the communauté urbaine , an intercommunal structure, centred on the city of Reims. It is located in the Marne department, in the Grand Est region, northeastern France. It was created in January 2017 by the merger of the previous communauté d'agglomération Reims Métropole with the communautés de communes Beine-Bourgogne, Champagne Vesle, Nord Champenois, Fismes Ardre et Vesle, Vallée de la Suippe, Rives de la Suippe, Vesle et Coteaux de la Montagne de Reims and 18 other communes.^[1] Its population was 299,054 in 2014, of which 186,971 in Reims proper.^[2]

Communauté urbaine is the second most integrated form of intercommunality in France, after the Metropolis. A communauté urbaine is composed of a city (commune) and its independent suburbs.

The commune 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 ayuntamiento in Spain. The United Kingdom has no exact equivalent, as communes resemble districts in urban areas, but are closer to parishes in rural areas where districts are much larger. Communes are based on historical geographic communities or villages and are vested with significant powers to manage the populations and land of the geographic area covered. The communes are the fourth-level administrative divisions of France.

Reims, a city in the Grand Est region of France, lies 129 km (80 mi) east-northeast of Paris. The 2013 census recorded 182,592 inhabitants in the city of Reims proper, and 317,611 inhabitants in the metropolitan area. Its primary river, the Vesle, is a tributary of the Aisne.

Composition

The communauté urbaine consists of the following 143 communes:^[2]^[3]

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References

↑ Arrêté préfectoral, 13 December 2016, p 20-23
1 2 BANATIC, Périmètre des EPCI à fiscalité propre. Accessed 2017-06-28.
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[1] Arrêté préfectoral, 13 December 2016, p 20-23

[BANATIC-2] 1 2 BANATIC, Périmètre des EPCI à fiscalité propre. Accessed 2017-06-28.

[3] INSEE