Bordeaux Metropole is a metropole, an intercommunal structure, centered on the city of Bordeaux. It lies in the center of the Gironde department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of southwestern France and represents about half of the department population. It was created in January 2015, replacing the earlier Communaute urbaine de Bordeaux, and brings together 28 municipalities covering an area of 578.3 square kilometers. Its population was 801,041 in 2018, of which 257,068 resided in Bordeaux proper.
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