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Population

This is confusing: "Rouen (population 110,000) is a city situated on the Seine river in Normandy, northern France. Population of the metropolitan area (in French: aire urbaine) at the 1999 census was 518,316... Rouen is part of Agglomération de Rouen Haute-Normandie which gathers 34 towns and 391,375 inhabitants" - does a large part of the metro area lie outside the agglomeration? If not the populations are wrong... if so, it is a bit counterintuitive! --VivaEmilyDavies 18:16, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

You are confusing two different things. On the one hand is the Communauté d'agglomération de Rouen, which is an administrative unit, on the other hand is the metropolitan area (aire urbaine) of Rouen, which is not an administrative unit, but a geographical concept. Check communauté d'agglomération and aire urbaine if you want to understand the difference. The Communauté d'agglomération de Rouen does not include all of the communes that are inside the metropolitan area, because some refused to join in, that's why there are less inhabitants living in the communauté d'agglomération than in the metropolitan area. Hardouin 20:25, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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