The Communauté urbaine Le Mans Métropole is the ''
communauté urbaine
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city
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Le Mans
Le Mans (, ) is a city in northwestern France on the Sarthe River where it meets the Huisne. Traditionally the capital of the province of Maine, it is now the capital of the Sarthe department and the seat of the Roman Catholic diocese of Le Man ...
. It is located in the
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 had ...
department
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Government and military
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, in the
Pays de la Loire
Pays de la Loire (; ; br, Broioù al Liger) is one of the 18 regions of France, in the west of the mainland. It was created in the 1950s to serve as a zone of influence for its capital, Nantes, one of a handful of "balancing metropolises" ().
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region
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, northwestern
France
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Le Mans Métropole consists of the following 19 communes:INSEE /ref>
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Aigné
Aigné () is a commune in the Sarthe department in the region of Pays de la Loire in north-western France.
Population
See also
*Communes of the Sarthe department
The following is a list of the 354 communes of the Sarthe department of Fra ...
Coulaines
Coulaines () is a commune in the Sarthe department in the Pays de la Loire region in north-western France. Its sister city is Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, United States.
Population
See also
* Communes of the Sarthe department
* Treaty of Co ...
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Fay
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Le Mans
Le Mans (, ) is a city in northwestern France on the Sarthe River where it meets the Huisne. Traditionally the capital of the province of Maine, it is now the capital of the Sarthe department and the seat of the Roman Catholic diocese of Le Man ...
Mulsanne
Mulsanne () is a commune in the Sarthe department in the region of Pays de la Loire in north-western France.
Population
Motor racing
The Circuit de la Sarthe, which is used in the sports car endurance race 24 Hours of Le Mans, features the l ...