Ingrandes-Le Fresne sur Loire (; br, Ingrandes-Runonn) is a
commune
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Administrative-territorial entities
* Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township
** Communes of ...
in the
Maine-et-Loire
Maine-et-Loire () is a department in the Loire Valley in the Pays de la Loire region in Western France. It is named after the two rivers, Maine and the Loire. It borders Mayenne and Sarthe to the north, Loire-Atlantique to the west, Indre-e ...
department
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, ...
of western
France
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. The municipality was established on 1 January 2016 and consists of the former communes of Ingrandes and
Le Fresne-sur-Loire
Le Fresne-sur-Loire (, literally ''Le Fresne on Loire''; br, Runonn) is a former commune of the Loire-Atlantique department in western France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Ingrandes-le-Fresne-sur-Loire, and became part ...
(previously part of the
Loire-Atlantique
Loire-Atlantique (; br, Liger-Atlantel; before 1957: ''Loire-Inférieure'', br, Liger-Izelañ, link=no) is a department in Pays de la Loire on the west coast of France, named after the river Loire and the Atlantic Ocean. It had a population o ...
department).The French spelling rules on municipalities require all parts of a name to be joined by hyphens, however, in Art.2 of the Arrêté préfectoral, the name was fixed to have only one hyphen between the names of the former municipalities.