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It is a directly elected metropolitan authority encompassing the city of Lyon and most of its suburbs. It has jurisdiction as both a department and a métropole, taking the territory out of the purview of the department of Rhône. It had a population of 1,411,571 in 2019, 37% of whom lived in the city of Lyon proper.
Lyon and 58 suburban municipalities have formed since 2015 the Metropolis of Lyon, a directly elected metropolitan authority now in charge of most urban issues, with a population of 1,416,545 in 2020.
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Laurence Vera - Métropole de Lyon. DISCOVER. Five walks in the Monts d’Or. Take a walk to (re)discover the landscapes and heritage of one of the jewels of the Lyon metropolitan area: the Monts d’Or massif. Discover the communes that make up the City of Lyon. Each of them has its own identity and history.
Greater Lyon is the region that surrounds the city of Lyon in south-eastern France, consisting of the departments of Ain, Loire, and Rhône plus the Lyon Metropolis, a "territorial collectivity" ( collectivité territoriale) with the same powers as a department. The whole area is in the larger Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.
The Metropolis of Lyon ( French: Métropole de Lyon ), also known as Grand Lyon (i.e. "Greater Lyon"), is a French territorial collectivity in the east-central region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. It is a directly elected metropolitan authority that is made-up by the city of Lyon and most of its suburbs.
The Metropolitan Council of Lyon (French: Conseil de la métropole de Lyon, Occitan: Conselh de metropòli de Lion) is the deliberative assembly of the Lyon metropolis, a territorial collectivity with special status, made up of 150 metropolitan councilors.
Lyon is a city of 520,000 inhabitants, with an area of approximately 48 km2, the heart of a metropolis of 1.4 million inhabitants, with an area of 534 km2. The Historic Site of Lyon was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1998, under criteria (ii) and (iv).
