The Communauté urbaine Le Mans Métropole is the ''

communauté urbaine (; French for "urban community") is the second most integrated form of intercommunality in France, after the ''Metropolis'' (). A is composed of a city ( commune) and its independent suburbs (independent communes). The first communautés urba ...

'', an intercommunal structure, centred on the

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Le Mans Le Mans (; ) is a Communes of France, city in Northwestern France on the Sarthe (river), Sarthe River where it meets the Huisne. Traditionally the capital of the Provinces of France, province of Maine (province), Maine, it is now the capital of ...

. It is located in the

Sarthe Sarthe () is a department of the French region of Pays de la Loire, and the province of Maine, situated in the '' Grand-Ouest'' of the country. It is named after the river Sarthe, which flows from east of Le Mans to just north of Angers. It ha ...

department, in the

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, northwestern

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. It was created in November 1971.CU Le Mans Métropole (N° SIREN : 247200132)
BANATIC. Retrieved 17 October 2024. Its area is 272.5 km². Its population was 209,557 in 2020, of which 145,155 in Le Mans proper.Comparateur de territoire
INSEE. Retrieved 31 October 2023.

Composition

Le Mans Métropole consists of the following 20 communes:INSEE
Retrieved 17 October 2024. # Aigné # Allonnes # Arnage # Champagné # La Chapelle-Saint-Aubin # Chaufour-Notre-Dame # Coulaines # Fatines # Fay #

# La Milesse # Mulsanne # Pruillé-le-Chétif # Rouillon # Ruaudin # Saint-Georges-du-Bois # Saint-Saturnin # Sargé-lès-le-Mans # Trangé #

Yvré-l'Évêque Yvré-l'Évêque () is a commune in the Sarthe department in the region of Pays de la Loire in north-western France France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas reg ...

References

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