Grand Poitiers

Grand Poitiers
Communauté urbaine
CountryFrance
RegionNouvelle-Aquitaine
DepartmentVienne
No. of communes40
Established2017
SeatPoitiers
Area
1,064.7 km2 (411.1 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)
196,530
 • Density185/km2 (480/sq mi)
Websitewww.grandpoitiers.fr

Grand Poitiers is the communauté urbaine, an intercommunal structure, centred on the city of Poitiers. It is located in the Vienne department, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, western France. It was created on 1 January 2017 as a communauté d'agglomération and transformed into a communauté urbaine on 1 July 2017.[1] Its area is 1064.7 km2. Its population was 196,530 in 2020, of which 90,033 in Poitiers proper.[2]

Composition

The communauté urbaine consists of the following 40 communes:[3][4]

  1. Beaumont Saint-Cyr
  2. Béruges
  3. Biard
  4. Bignoux
  5. Bonnes
  6. Buxerolles
  7. Celle-Lévescault
  8. La Chapelle-Moulière
  9. Chasseneuil-du-Poitou
  10. Chauvigny
  11. Cloué
  12. Coulombiers
  13. Croutelle
  14. Curzay-sur-Vonne
  15. Dissay
  16. Fontaine-le-Comte
  17. Jardres
  18. Jaunay-Marigny
  19. Jazeneuil
  20. Lavoux
  21. Ligugé
  22. Liniers
  23. Lusignan
  24. Mignaloux-Beauvoir
  25. Migné-Auxances
  26. Montamisé
  27. Poitiers
  28. Pouillé
  29. La Puye
  30. Rouillé
  31. Saint-Benoît
  32. Sainte-Radégonde
  33. Saint-Georges-lès-Baillargeaux
  34. Saint-Julien-l'Ars
  35. Saint-Sauvant
  36. Sanxay
  37. Savigny-Lévescault
  38. Sèvres-Anxaumont
  39. Tercé
  40. Vouneuil-sous-Biard

References

  1. ^ Arrêté préctoral, 30 June 2017.
  2. ^ Comparateur de territoire, INSEE. Retrieved 31 October 2023.
  3. ^ CU du Grand Poitiers (N° SIREN : 200069854), BANATIC. Accessed 11 November 2024.
  4. ^ "Intercommunalité : Communauté urbaine du Grand Poitiers". INSEE. Retrieved 11 November 2024.

46°35′N 0°20′E / 46.58°N 0.34°E / 46.58; 0.34


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