An agglomeration community (french: communauté d'agglomération) is a government structure in
France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...
, created by the
Chevènement Law of 1999. It is one of four forms of
intercommunality, less integrated than a
métropole
A ''métropole'' (French for "metropolis") is an administrative entity in France, in which several communes cooperate, and which has the right to levy local tax, an ''établissement public de coopération intercommunale à fiscalité propre''. ...
or a
communauté urbaine but more integrated than a
communauté de communes. Agglomeration communities consist of a
commune of at least 15,000 inhabitants (or a
prefecture with less than 15,000 inhabitants) and its independent suburbs.
As of March 2020, there are 222 agglomeration communities in France (207 in
metropolitan France
Metropolitan France (french: France métropolitaine or ''la Métropole''), also known as European France (french: Territoire européen de la France) is the area of France which is geographically in Europe. This collective name for the European ...
and 15 in the
overseas departments).
[BANATIC]
France, Liste des groupements. Accessed 2020-03-19. The population (as of 2017) of the agglomeration communities ranges from 355,650 inhabitants (
CA Grand Paris Sud Seine-Essonne-Sénart) to 29,289 inhabitants (
CA Grand Verdun).
Several former communautés d'agglomération have been converted into communautés urbaines or métropoles, for instance those of
Strasbourg
Strasbourg (, , ; german: Straßburg ; gsw, label= Bas Rhin Alsatian, Strossburi , gsw, label= Haut Rhin Alsatian, Strossburig ) is the prefecture and largest city of the Grand Est region of eastern France and the official seat of the ...
,
Rouen,
Saint-Étienne and
Caen.
List of communautés d'agglomération
The table below lists the communautés d'agglomération with more than 200,000 inhabitants (as of 2021).
References
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External links
Association of intercommunalites
Fifth-level administrative divisions by country