Châteauroux Métropole is the ''

communauté d'agglomération An agglomeration community (, ) is a consortium of communes in France, communes (municipality, municipalities) in France, created as a government structure by the Jean-Pierre Chevènement, Chevènement Law of 1999. It is one of four forms of co ...

'', 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 ...

Châteauroux Châteauroux ( ; ; ) is the capital city of the French department of Indre, central France and the second-largest town in the province of Berry, after Bourges. Its residents are called ''Castelroussins'' () in French. Climate Châteauroux te ...

. It is located in the

Indre Indre (); is a department in central France named after the river Indre. The inhabitants of the department are known as the ''Indriens'' (masculine; ) and ''Indriennes'' (feminine; ). Indre is part of the current administrative region of Cent ...

department, in the

Centre-Val de Loire Centre-Val de Loire (; ,In isolation, ''Centre'' is pronounced . ) or Centre Region (, ), as it was known until 2015, is one of the eighteen Regions of France, administrative regions of France. It straddles the middle Loire Valley in the interior ...

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, central

France France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlan ...

. Created in 2000, its seat is in Châteauroux.CA Châteauroux Métropole (N° SIREN : 243600327)
BANATIC. Retrieved 17 October 2024. Its area is 537.9 km². Its population was 72,767 in 2019, of which 43,122 in Châteauroux proper.Comparateur de territoire
INSEE. Retrieved 17 November 2022.

Composition

The communauté d'agglomération consists of the following 14 communes: # Ardentes # Arthon #

# Coings # Déols # Diors # Étrechet # Jeu-les-Bois # Luant # Mâron #

Montierchaume Montierchaume () is a commune in the Indre department, central France. Population See also *Communes of the Indre department The following is a list of the 241 communes of the Indre department of France. The communes cooperate in the ...

# Le Poinçonnet # Saint-Maur # Sassierges-Saint-Germain

References

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