Communauté d'agglomération Cœur d'Essonne (also: ''Cœur d'Essonne Agglomération'') is an
agglomeration community, an
intercommunal structure, centred on the
city
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of
Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, a southern suburb of
Paris
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. It is located in the
Essonne department, in the
ÃŽle-de-France
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region
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, northern
France
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. It was created in January 2016.
[CA Coeur d'Essonne Agglomération (N° SIREN : 200057859)]
BANATIC, accessed 4 November 2024. Its area is 132.7 km
2. Its population was 201,873 in 2018.
[Comparateur de territoire]
INSEE, accessed 6 April 2022.
Composition
The communauté d'agglomération consists of the following 21 communes:
# Arpajon
# Avrainville
# Brétigny-sur-Orge
# Breuillet
# Bruyères-le-Châtel
# Cheptainville
# Égly
# Fleury-Mérogis
# Guibeville
# Leuville-sur-Orge
# Longpont-sur-Orge
# Marolles-en-Hurepoix
# Morsang-sur-Orge
# La Norville
# Ollainville
# Le Plessis-Pâté
# Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois
# Saint-Germain-lès-Arpajon
# Saint-Michel-sur-Orge
# Villemoisson-sur-Orge
# Villiers-sur-Orge
References
Coeur d'Essonne
Intercommunalities of Essonne
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