The Communauté urbaine d'Alençon is the ''

communauté urbaine (; French for "urban community") is the second most integrated form of intercommunality in France, after the ''Metropolis'' (). A is composed of a city ( commune) and its independent suburbs (independent communes). The first communautés urba ...

'', an intercommunal structure, centred on the

city A city is a human settlement of a substantial size. The term "city" has different meanings around the world and in some places the settlement can be very small. Even where the term is limited to larger settlements, there is no universally agree ...

Alençon Alençon (, , ; ) is a commune in Normandy, France, and the capital of the Orne department. It is situated between Paris and Rennes (about west of Paris) and a little over north of Le Mans. Alençon belongs to the intercommunality of Alen� ...

. It is located in the

Orne Orne (; or ) is a département in the northwest of France, named after the river Orne. It had a population of 279,942 in 2019.Sarthe Sarthe () is a department of the French region of Pays de la Loire, and the province of Maine, situated in the '' Grand-Ouest'' of the country. It is named after the river Sarthe, which flows from east of Le Mans to just north of Angers. It ha ...

departments Department may refer to: * Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility Government and military * Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...

, in the

Normandy Normandy (; or ) is a geographical and cultural region in northwestern Europe, roughly coextensive with the historical Duchy of Normandy. Normandy comprises Normandy (administrative region), mainland Normandy (a part of France) and insular N ...

and

Pays de la Loire Pays de la Loire (; but can also mean 'Lower Loire') is one of the eighteen administrative regions of France, located on the country's Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic coast. It was created in the 1950s to serve as a zone of influence for its capital an ...

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, northwestern

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. It was created in December 1996.CU d'Alençon (N° SIREN : 246100663)
BANATIC. Accessed 17 October 2024. Its area is 461.7 km². Its population was 55,924 in 2018, of which 25,775 in Alençon proper.Comparateur de territoire
INSEE. 4 April 2022.

Composition

The communauté urbaine consists of the following 31 communes, of which 5 (Arçonnay, Champfleur, Chenay, Saint Paterne - Le Chevain and Villeneuve-en-Perseigne) in the Sarthe department:INSEE
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Arçonnay Arçonnay () is a commune in the Sarthe department in the region of Pays de la Loire in north-western France. See also *Communes of the Sarthe department The following is a list of the 352 communes of the Sarthe department of France. The ...

# Cerisé # Champfleur # Chenay # Ciral # Colombiers #

Condé-sur-Sarthe Condé-sur-Sarthe (, literally ''Condé on Sarthe'') is a commune in the Orne department in north-western France. Population Points of interest *Centre Pénitentiaire d'Alençon-Condé-sur-Sarthe is a high security prison that was put in use ...

# Cuissai # Damigny #

Écouves Écouves () is a commune in the department of Orne, northwestern France. The municipality was established on 1 January 2016 by merger of the former communes of Forges, Radon (the seat) and Vingt-Hanaps. It takes its name from the nearby Forê ...

# La Ferrière-Bochard # Gandelain # Héloup # Lalacelle # Larré # Lonrai # Ménil-Erreux # Mieuxcé # L'Orée-d'Écouves # Pacé # La Roche-Mabile #

Saint-Céneri-le-Gérei Saint-Céneri-le-Gérei () is a commune in the Orne department in north-western France. It lies on the river Sarthe from Alençon, the chef-lieu of the department, and some west of Paris. It is classed as a Petites Cités de Caractère. ...

# Saint-Denis-sur-Sarthon # Saint-Ellier-les-Bois # Saint-Germain-du-Corbéis # Saint-Nicolas-des-Bois # Saint Paterne - Le Chevain # Semallé # Valframbert # Villeneuve-en-Perseigne

References

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