Nice metropolitan area
Nice metropolitan area
Aire d'attraction de Nice (French) | |
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Urban | |
Coordinates: 43°43′N 7°16′E / 43.717°N 7.267°E | |
Country | France |
Region | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur |
Department | Alpes-Maritimes, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence |
Area | |
• Total | 2,073 km2 (800 sq mi) |
Population (2021) | |
• Total | 1,103,527 |
• Density | 530/km2 (1,400/sq mi) |
GDP | |
• Total | €39.592 billion (2021) |
Nice metropolitan area (
Geography
The functional urban area of Nice covers the central and southern part of the
Transportation is based on a railway line and vital A8 autoroute, built from 1966. Nice Côte d'Azur Airport is the second biggest in France with more than 9 million passengers welcomed every year.
History
In the beginning of the nineteenth century, Nice was a 20,000 inhabitants city belonging to the
The urbanized area began to spread outside city limits, in La Trinité to the North, Villefranche-sur-Mer to the East and Cagnes-sur-Mer to the West. In the meantime, old cities, about 30 km to the West, like Grasse, Cannes, Antibes were experiencing regular growth as well.
After World War II, growth increased with the development of mass tourism and development of transports in the region. The consequences of the end of the Algerian War were also very important for the region's population, with many Pied-Noirs settling in the area. The growth in main cities decreased, while new town were growing very quickly like Saint-Laurent-du-Var, Vallauris, Le Cannet.
In the 1990 census, INSEE identified two distinct
Only nine years later, with the 1999 census, the two aires merged to form French sixth aire urbaine. At the 2010 zoning, the aire urbaine of Nice consisted of 129 communes, of which 2 in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, 5 in Var and 122 in Alpes-Maritimes.[5] At the 2020 zoning, the functional area of Cannes-Antibes was separated from that of Nice.[2]
The table below shows the evolution of the seven most important
City | 1901 | 1954 | 1999 |
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Nice | 105 109 | 244 360 | 342 738 |
Antibes | 10 947 | 27 064 | 72 412 |
Cannes | 30 420 | 50 192 | 67 304 |
Cagnes-sur-Mer | 3 381 | 11 066 | 43 942 |
Grasse | 15 429 | 22 187 | 43 874 |
Le Cannet | 3 097 | 11 601 | 42 158 |
Saint-Laurent-du-Var | 1 530 | 5 623 | 27 141 |
Organisation
This statistic-based metropolitan area is divided into multiple administrative divisions. Among them are:
- Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur, that groups 51 communes, not all of them belonging to the metropolitan area. This agglomeration community is 1,480 square kilometers large and hosts 546,000 inhabitants.
- Communauté d'agglomération de Sophia Antipolis, 24 communes, 10 of which in the metropolitan area of Nice
- Communauté d'agglomération du Pays de Grasse, 23 communes, 5 of which in the metropolitan area of Nice
- Communauté de communes Alpes d'Azur, 34 communes, not all of them part of the metropolitan area of Nice
- Communauté de communes du Pays des Paillons, 11 communes, all part of the metropolitan area of Nice