The Urban Community of Lyon (), also known as Grand Lyon (i.e. "Greater Lyon") or by its former acronym COURLY, is the former intercommunal structure gathering the city of Lyon (France) and some of its suburbs. It was created in January 1969. The "Metropolis of Lyon" replaced the Urban Community on January 1, 2015. The Urban Community of Lyon encompasses only the core of the metropolitan area of Lyon. Communes further away from the centre of the metropolitan area have formed their own intercommunal structures, such as: Syndicate of New Agglomeration of L'Isle-d'Abeau (): 38,769 inhabitants Community of Communes of the East of Lyon (): 27,706 inhabitants Community of Communes of the Garon Valley (): 27,515 inhabitants Communes included in the Urban Community The Urban Community originally comprised 55 communes. However, on 1 January 2007, two additional communes, Givors and Grigny, joined, bringing the total up to 57. These two communes are detached from the rest of the Urban Community, as Millery (the commune linking Grigny with Charly and Vernaison) and neighbouring villages refused to join the Urban Community. On 1 January 2011, Lissieu, joined and on 1 June 2014, Quincieux, bringing the total to 59. The Communauté urbaine comprised the following communes: Albigny-sur-Saône Bron Cailloux-sur-Fontaines Caluire-et-Cuire Champagne-au-Mont-d'Or Charbonnières-les-Bains Charly Chassieu Collonges-au-Mont-d'Or Corbas Couzon-au-Mont-d'Or Craponne Curis-au-Mont-d'Or Dardilly Décines-Charpieu Écully Feyzin Fleurieu-sur-Saône Fontaines-Saint-Martin Fontaines-sur-Saône Francheville Genay Givors Grigny Irigny Jonage Limonest Lissieu Lyon Marcy-l'Étoile Meyzieu Mions Montanay La Mulatière Neuville-sur-Saône Oullins Pierre-Bénite Poleymieux-au-Mont-d'Or Quincieux Rillieux-la-Pape Rochetaillée-sur-Saône Saint-Cyr-au-Mont-d'Or Saint-Didier-au-Mont-d'Or Saint-Fons Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon Saint-Genis-Laval Saint-Genis-les-Ollières Saint-Germain-au-Mont-d'Or Saint-Priest Saint-Romain-au-Mont-d'Or Sathonay-Camp Sathonay-Village Solaize Tassin-la-Demi-Lune La Tour-de-Salvagny Vaulx-en-Velin Vénissieux Vernaison Villeurbanne References External links Urban Community of Lyon website (in French) Lyon Geography of Lyon Geography of Rhône (department) States and territories established in 1969 States and territories disestablished in 2015