Communauté d'agglomération

A communauté d'agglomération is an administrative division in France, larger than a commune, but smaller than a département.

An urban area that consist of several small cities and their environs, but no large central city, can be organized into a communauté d'agglomération for regional planning purposes. (The metropolitan area of a large city is instead organized into a communauté urbaine).

Communautés d'agglomération include

• Community of Agglomeration of Greater Toulouse
• Community of Agglomeration Nice Côte d'Azur
• Cergy-Pontoise
• Communaupole of Lens-Liévin
• Communauté d'agglomération de l'Artois (Artois Comm.)
• Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines