Cholet Agglomération

Cholet Agglomération (before August 2023: Agglomération du Choletais)^[1] is the intercommunal structure gathering the city of Cholet and its suburbs.

Cholet Agglomération
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.^[2]

Composition

Cholet Agglomération gathers the following 26 communes:^[3][4]

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