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Urban area (France)
Statistical area in France / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 Eurostat's functional urban areas, in 2020.[2][3]
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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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