Muret (French pronunciation: ​[my.ʁɛ]; in Gascon Occitan Murèth) is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department, of which it is a subprefecture, in the Midi-Pyrénées region of southwestern France. Its inhabitants are called Muretains.It is an outer suburb of the city of Toulouse, even though it does not belong to Greater Toulouse, which it has declined to join.