Lorient Agglomération (
Breton: ''An Oriant Tolpad-kêrioù'') 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
city
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of
Lorient
Lorient (; ) is a town (''Communes of France, commune'') and Port, seaport in the Morbihan Departments of France, department of Brittany (administrative region), Brittany in western France.
History
Prehistory and classical antiquity
Beginn ...
. It is located in the
Morbihan
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department, in the
Brittany
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region
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, northwestern
France
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. It was created in January 2014.
[CA Lorient Agglomération (N° SIREN : 200042174)]
BANATIC, accessed 4 November 2024. Its area is 738.7 km
2. Its population was 205,765 in 2020, of which 57,412 were in Lorient proper.
[Comparateur de territoire]
INSEE, accessed 6 April 2022.
Composition
The communauté d'agglomération consists of the following 25 communes:
Lorient
Lorient (; ) is a town (''Communes of France, commune'') and Port, seaport in the Morbihan Departments of France, department of Brittany (administrative region), Brittany in western France.
History
Prehistory and classical antiquity
Beginn ...
# Ploemeur
# Plouay
# Pont-Scorff
# Port-Louis
# Quéven
# Quistinic
# Riantec
The areas and populations (as per INSEE estimates as at 1 January 2020) are as follows:
References
Agglomeration communities in France
Intercommunalities of Morbihan
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