Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Dax is the ''

communauté d'agglomération An agglomeration community (french: communauté d'agglomération) is a government structure in France, created by the Chevènement Law of 1999. It is one of four forms of intercommunality, less integrated than a métropole or a communauté ur ...

'', an intercommunal structure, centred on the

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Dax Dax or DAX may refer to: Business and organizations * DAX, stock market index of the top 40 German companies ** DAX 100, an expanded index of 100 stocks, superseded by the HDAX ** TecDAX, stock index of the top 30 German technology firms * Dax Ca ...

. It is located in the

Landes ''Landes'', or ''Lanas'' in Gascon, means moorland or heath. ''Landes'' and ''Lanas'' come from the Latin ''plānus'' meaning “‘flat, even, level, plain’”. They are therefore cognate with the English plain (and plane), the Spanish word ...

department, in the

Nouvelle-Aquitaine Nouvelle-Aquitaine (; oc, Nòva Aquitània or ; eu, Akitania Berria; Poitevin-Saintongeais: ''Novéle-Aguiéne'') is the largest administrative region in France, spanning the west and southwest of the mainland. The region was created by ...

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, southwestern

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. Created in 1993, its seat is in Dax.CA du Grand Dax (N° SIREN : 244000675)
BANATIC. Retrieved 20 November 2022. Its area is 344.3 km². Its population was 55,657 in 2019, of which 20,843 in Dax proper.Comparateur de territoire
INSEE. Retrieved 20 November 2022.

Composition

The communauté d'agglomération consists of the following 20 communes: # Angoumé # Bénesse-lès-Dax # Candresse #

Gourbera Gourbera (; oc, Gorberar) is a commune in the Landes department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. Population References See also *Communes of the Landes department The following is a list of the 327 communes of the Landes ...

Herm Herm (Guernésiais: , ultimately from Old Norse 'arm', due to the shape of the island, or Old French 'hermit') is one of the Channel Islands and part of the Parish of St Peter Port in the Bailiwick of Guernsey. It is located in the English ...

# Heugas # Mées # Narrosse # Oeyreluy # Rivière-Saas-et-Gourby # Saint-Pandelon # Saint-Paul-lès-Dax # Saint-Vincent-de-Paul # Saugnac-et-Cambran # Seyresse # Siest # Tercis-les-Bains # Téthieu # Yzosse

References

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