The Agglomération du Choletais, also simply known as CAC, is the intercommunal structure gathering the city of Cholet and its suburbs.
Choletais | |
|---|---|
 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]
- Bégrolles-en-Mauges
- Cernusson
- Les Cerqueux
- Chanteloup-les-Bois
- Cholet
- Cléré-sur-Layon
- Coron
- Lys-Haut-Layon
- Maulévrier
- Le May-sur-Èvre
- Mazières-en-Mauges
- Montilliers
- Nuaillé
- Passavant-sur-Layon
- La Plaine
- La Romagne
- Saint-Christophe-du-Bois
- Saint-Léger-sous-Cholet
- Saint-Paul-du-Bois
- La Séguinière
- Somloire
- La Tessoualle
- Toutlemonde
- Trémentines
- Vezins
- Yzernay
References
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