This article contains a list of new

French communes The () is a level of administrative division in the French Republic. French are analogous to civil townships and incorporated municipalities in the United States and Canada, ' in Germany, ' in Italy, or ' in Spain. The United Kingdom's equi ...

created in 2021, this is to say a list of new French communes for which prefectural decrees pronouncing their creation defined a date of creation between 1 January 2021 and 31 December 2021. This list contains 2 new communes regrouping 5 previous communes.

Legislative history

The law n^o 2010-1563 of 16 December 2010 to reform local authorities replaced the previous regime of merging communes defined in the " Marcellin" law of 16 July 1971 with a renewed consolidation procedure, resulting in the creation of a "new commune". It was supplemented in 2015 by a new law n^o 2015-292 of 16 March 2015 relating to the improvement of the regime of the new commune, for strong and lively communes, setting up temporary financial incentives in order to promote the creation of new municipalities before 1 January 2019.

Enumeration

Number of new communes created in 2021

2 new communes were created on 1 January 2021. They regrouped 5 former communes.

Total number of communes in France

On 1 March 2021, the

French Republic France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan area ...

counted 34,964 communes, of which 34,835 are located 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 129 in overseas departments and regions.

Detailed list

Article L. 2113-6 of the general code of local and regional authorities (CGCT) specifies that "the decree of the representative of the State in the department pronouncing the creation of the new municipality determines the name of the new municipality, if necessary in view of the opinions issued by the municipal councils, fixes the date of creation and in full, in as needed, the terms". The following table presents these indicators for each of the new communes created in 2021: name, date of the prefectural decree announcing its creation, date of creation and multiple modalities (existence of delegated communities, seat of the commune), or complementary information (population). {, class="wikitable" ! rowspan="2" , Department ! rowspan="2" , # ! colspan="4" , New communes ! colspan="3" , Former Communes ! rowspan="2" , Date of prefectural decree ! rowspan="2" , Date of creation , - !Name ! Code INSEE !Seat !Population (2017) !# !Names !Delegated commune , - , rowspan="1" ,

Charente Charente (; Saintongese: ''Chérente''; oc, Charanta ) is a department in the administrative region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, south western France. It is named after the river Charente, the most important and longest river in the department, an ...

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Mosnac-Saint-Simeux Mosnac-Saint-Simeux () is a commune in the Charente department in southwestern France. It was established on 1 January 2021 from the amalgamation of the communes of Mosnac and Saint-Simeux. Politics and administration The municipal council ...

, 16233 , Mosnac , 1,045 , 2 , Mosnac and

Saint-Simeux Saint-Simeux () is a former commune in the Charente department in southwestern France. On 1 January 2021, it was merged into the new commune Mosnac-Saint-Simeux. Population See also *Communes of the Charente department The following is a l ...

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Mayenne Mayenne () is a landlocked department in northwest France named after the river Mayenne. Mayenne is part of the administrative region of Pays de la Loire and is surrounded by the departments of Manche, Orne, Sarthe, Maine-et-Loire, and Ille-et ...

, rowspan="1" , 1 , Vimartin-sur-Orthe , 53249 , Saint-Pierre-sur-Orthe , 1,121 , 3 ,

Saint-Martin-de-Connée Saint-Martin-de-Connée () is a former commune in the Mayenne department in north-western France. On 1 January 2021, it was merged into the new commune Vimartin-sur-Orthe. See also *Communes of the Mayenne department The following is a list o ...

, Saint-Pierre-sur-Orthe, and

Vimarcé Vimarcé () is a former commune in the Mayenne department in north-western France. On 1 January 2021, Vimarcé was merged into the new commune Vimartin-sur-Orthe. See also *Communes of the Mayenne department *Parc naturel régional Normandie-Ma ...

, Yes , 23 December 2020{{Cite web, date=23 December 2020, title=Arrêté du 21 décembre 2020 portant création de la commune nouvelle de Vimartin-sur-Orthe à compter du 1er janvier 2021, url=https://www.mayenne.gouv.fr/content/download/41826/292321/file/recueil-53-2020-144-recueil-des-actes-administratifs-special.pdf, url-status=live, archive-url=https://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/index2.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mayenne.gouv.fr%2Fcontent%2Fdownload%2F41826%2F292321%2Ffile%2Frecueil-53-2020-144-recueil-des-actes-administratifs-special.pdf%2Findex.html, archive-date=5 December 2021, access-date=29 December 2021, website=Préfecture de la Mayenne, pages=14–17 , 1 January 2021

Legislative history

Enumeration

Number of new communes created in 2021

Total number of communes in France

Detailed list

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