Urban Community of Strasbourg
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| Founded | December 4, 1967 | ||
| President | Robert Grossmann (UMP) (since 2001) | ||
| Communes | 27 | ||
| Area | 305.97 km² | ||
| Population 1999 census | 451,240 (58.3% in the city of Strasbourg) | ||
| Density | 1,475/km² | ||
| Budget 1 | 955.8 million euros (2004) (US $1.263 billion) | ||
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1 After compensatory transfer of local tax euros to the communes of the Urban Community. | |||
The Urban Community of Strasbourg (French: Communauté urbaine de Strasbourg), also known by its French initials CUS, is the intercommunal structure gathering the city of Strasbourg (France) and some of its suburbs.
The Urban Community of Strasbourg encompasses only the center of the metropolitan area of Strasbourg (see infobox at Strasbourg article for the metropolitan area). Communes further away from the center of the metropolitan area have formed their own intercommunal structures, such as:
- Community of Communes of the Erstein Country (Communauté de communes du Pays d'Erstein): 16,702 inhabitants
- Community of Communes of the Kochersberg (Communauté de communes du Kochersberg): 16,141 inhabitants
- Community of Communes of the Lower Zorn (Communauté de communes de la Basse-Zorn): 15,683 inhabitants
- etc.
Another part of the metropolitan area is on German territory (Kehl) and is thus outside of the scope of French intercommunality. There are currently some projects to establish an Urban Community for the whole metropolitan area (see Eurodistrict), crossing borders, but this revolutionary transnational structure has not been created yet.
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