Agglomeration community of Cholet

The Agglomération du Choletais, also simply known as CAC, is the intercommunal structure gathering the city of Cholet and its suburbs.

Choletais
Communauté d'agglomération
Location within the Maine-et-Loire department
Country	France
Region	Pays de la Loire
Department	Maine-et-Loire
No. of communes	26
Established	January 2017
Seat	Cholet
Government
• President	Gilles Bourdouleix (Ind.)
Area	788 km2 (304 sq mi)
Population  (2018)	104,382
• Density	132/km2 (340/sq mi)
Website	CAC Website

It is located in the Maine-et-Loire département, in the Pays de la Loire région (France). It was formed on 1 January 2017 by the merger of the former Communauté d'agglomération du Choletais, the Communauté de communes du Bocage and the Communauté de communes du Vihiersois-Haut-Layon. Its area is 788.0 km². Its population was 104,382 in 2018, of which 54,186 in Cholet proper.^[1]

Composition

The Agglomération du Choletais gathers the following 26 communes:^[2][3]

1. Bégrolles-en-Mauges
2. Cernusson
3. Les Cerqueux
4. Chanteloup-les-Bois
5. Cholet
6. Cléré-sur-Layon
7. Coron
8. Lys-Haut-Layon
9. Maulévrier
10. Le May-sur-Èvre
11. Mazières-en-Mauges
12. Montilliers
13. Nuaillé
14. Passavant-sur-Layon
15. La Plaine
16. La Romagne
17. Saint-Christophe-du-Bois
18. Saint-Léger-sous-Cholet
19. Saint-Paul-du-Bois
20. La Séguinière
21. Somloire
22. La Tessoualle
23. Toutlemonde
24. Trémentines
25. Vezins
26. Yzernay

References

1. Comparateur de territoire, INSEE, accessed 6 April 2022.
2. INSEE, composition of CA du Choletais
3. CA Agglomération du Choletais (N° SIREN : 200071678), BANATIC. Accessed 24 March 2022.

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