Agglomeration community of Nice Côte d'Azur

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Communauté d'Agglomération Nice Côte d'Azur

Geography

Administration
Country	France
Region	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Department	Alpes-Maritimes
No. of communes	24
Chief-town	Nice
President	Christian Estrosi (UMP) (2008-present)
Founded	January 1, 2002
Budget	€ 640 million (2006)¹
Statistics
Population
- 2006	500,319 (70% in the city of Nice)
- Density	1,494/km²
Land area	331km²
Web site
www.agglo-nice.fr/
¹ After compensatory transfer of local tax euros to the communes of the Community of Agglomeration.

The Agglomeration community of Nice Côte d'Azur (French: communauté d'agglomération Nice Côte d'Azur), also known by its initials CANCA, is the intercommunal structure gathering the city of Nice (France) and some of its suburbs.

The Agglomeration community of Nice Côte d'Azur encompasses essentially the eastern part of the metropolitan area of Nice (see infobox at Nice article for the metropolitan area), the western communes of the metropolitan area around Cannes and Antibes having refused to join in.

Those parts of the metropolitan area that are not inside the CANCA have formed different intercommunal structures, such as:

Agglomeration community of Sophia-Antipolis (Communauté d'agglomération de Sophia-Antipolis): 159,392 inhabitants, with Antibes in it
Agglomeration community of the Middle Provence Country (Communauté d'agglomération du Moyen Pays Provençal): 65,614 inhabitants
Commune community of the Paillons Country (Communauté de communes du Pays des Paillons): 20,716 inhabitants
etc.

As of the beginning of 2005, Cannes itself and the few communes around Cannes still refuse to join any intercommunal structure or to create one of their own.