Functional area (France)

Functional areas (AAV) of Metropolitan France in 2020, broken down by communes (commune borders as of January 1, 2020):

  Communes in the main population and employment centre of a functional area
  Communes in a secondary population and employment centre of a functional area
  Communes in the commuting zone of a functional area (functional areas with more than 700,000 inhabitants)
  Communes in the commuting zone of a functional area (functional areas between 200,000 and 700,000 inhabitants)
  Communes in the commuting zone of a functional area (functional areas between 50,000 and 200,000 inhabitants)
  Communes in the commuting zone of a functional area (functional areas with less than 50,000 inhabitants)
  Communes outside of functional areas

An aire d'attraction d'une ville^{[note 1]} (or AAV, literally meaning "catchment area of a city") is a statistical area used by France's national statistics office INSEE since 2020, officially translated as functional area in English by INSEE,^[2] which consists of a densely populated urban agglomeration and the surrounding exurbs, towns and intervening rural areas that are socioeconomically tied to the central urban agglomeration, as measured by commuting patterns.^[1] INSEE's functional area (AAV) is therefore akin to what is most often called metropolitan area in English.

^ ^a ^b "Le nouveau zonage en aires d'attraction des villes". INSEE. Retrieved 2022-04-26.
^ "Functional areas - Definition". INSEE. Retrieved 2022-04-26.

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[AAV-1] "Le nouveau zonage en aires d'attraction des villes". INSEE. Retrieved 2022-04-26.

[FU-3] "Functional areas - Definition". INSEE. Retrieved 2022-04-26.

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