Communauté d'agglomération de Forbach Porte de France 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
town
A town is a type of a human settlement, generally larger than a village but smaller than a city.
The criteria for distinguishing a town vary globally, often depending on factors such as population size, economic character, administrative stat ...
of
Forbach. It is located in the
Moselle
The Moselle ( , ; ; ) is a river that rises in the Vosges mountains and flows through north-eastern France and Luxembourg to western Germany. It is a bank (geography), left bank tributary of the Rhine, which it joins at Koblenz. A sm ...
department, in the
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 It superseded three former administrative regions, Alsace, Champagne-Ardenne and Lorraine, on 1 January 2016 under the provisional name of Alsace-Champagne-A ...
region
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, northeastern
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 2003, its seat is in Forbach.
[CA de Forbach Porte de France (N° SIREN : 245700372)]
BANATIC. Retrieved 17 October 2024. Its area is 139.1 km
2. Its population was 76,764 in 2019, of which 21,597 in Forbach proper.
[Comparateur de territoire]
INSEE. Retrieved 8 November 2022.
Composition
The communauté d'agglomération consists of the following 21 communes:
Morsbach
Morsbach is a municipality in Oberbergischer Kreis, a district in North Rhine-Westphalia near the border of Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany. In 2015, Morsbach's population was 10,600. The central village, also named Morsbach, has a population of ...
# Nousseviller-Saint-Nabor
#Å’ting
Å’ting (; ) is a commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.
Population
See also
* Communes of the Moselle department
The following is a list of the 725 communes of the Moselle department of France
Fra ...
# Petite-Rosselle
# Rosbruck
# Schœneck
# Spicheren
# Stiring-Wendel
# Tenteling
# Théding
References
Forbach Porte de France
Forbach Porte de France
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