Châlons Agglo, formally the , is a

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 ...

around

Châlons-en-Champagne Châlons-en-Champagne () is a city in the Grand Est region of France. It is the capital of the Departments of France, department of Marne (department), Marne, despite being only a quarter the size of the city of Reims. Formerly called Châlons ...

in the French department of

Marne Marne can refer to: Places France *Marne (river), a tributary of the Seine *Marne (department), a département in northeastern France named after the river * La Marne, a commune in western France *Marne, a legislative constituency (France) Nethe ...

in the region of

Grand Est Grand Est (; ) is an Regions of France, administrative region in northeastern France. It superseded three former administrative regions, Alsace, Champagne-Ardenne and Lorraine, on 1 January 2016 under the provisional name of Alsace-Champagne-A ...

. It was formed in January 2000 from the previous ''district de Châlons-en-Champagne'', which consisted of nine

communes A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or comune or other derivations may also refer to: Administrative-territorial entities * Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township ** Communes of ...

. In 2014, it was expanded to 38 communes, when it was merged with the three communautés de communes of l'Europort, Jâlons, and la Région de Condé-sur-Marne, except that Pocancy in Jâlons joined the communauté de communes de la Région de Vertus (the three communautés de communes were respectively named after Vatry Europort,

Jâlons Jâlons () is a commune in the Marne department in the Grand Est region in north-eastern France. See also *Communes of the Marne department The following is a list of the 610 communes in the French department of Marne. The communes coop ...

, and

Condé-sur-Marne Condé-sur-Marne (, literally ''Condé on Marne'') is a commune in the Marne department in north-eastern France. See also *Communes of the Marne department The following is a list of the 610 communes in the French department of Marne. ...

). In January 2017, the eight communes of the former communauté de communes de la Région de Mourmelon joined the communauté d'agglomération de Châlons-en-Champagne.Arrêté préfectoral
21 September 2016. Its area is 810.4 km². Its population was 79,518 in 2018, of which 44,246 in Châlons-en-Champagne proper.Comparateur de territoire
INSEE, accessed 6 April 2022.

Composition

References

External links

Official website
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