Bordeaux
City Facts
Metropolitan Area: 5.685 km²
(in million €)
GDP per inhabitant: 44,8 (2012 figures)
(in thousands per inhabitant)
Annual Budget: €679,6 million (OP13: current expenditures, standardised financial report figures 2015)
Bordeaux Métropole comprises 760.000 inhabitants in 28 towns, among which the City of Bordeaux with 250.000 inhabitants. Bordeaux Métropole is the heart of an urban conurbation of 1,2 million inhabitants.
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Although ranked 6th metropolis in France in terms of size, all the recent surveys and studies consistently show that Bordeaux is the most attractive city in France to live and work. As one of the largest urban area ever to be listed world heritage by the Unesco, Bordeaux is nonetheless the opposite of a museum, frozen in its glorious past. The world capital of wine combines its heritage to a very bold approach, of a city widely open to innovation and to the world.
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