The Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur is a French intercommunal structure, located in the Alpes-Maritimes department and the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, around the city of Nice. It was set up on 31 December 2011 and is the result of the merger of the Nice Côte d'Azur urban community (NCA) with three communities of communes in the Alpes-Maritimes2. It includes 51 municipalities and 553,305 inhabitants, on a teritory of 1,479.73 km2.