Communauté d'agglomération du Pays Basque

Communauté Pays Basque /
Euskal Hirigune Elkargoa
Communauté Pays Basque / ; Euskal Hirigune Elkargoa
Communauté d'agglomération
	Location within the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department
Country	France
Region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Pyrénées-Atlantiques
No. of communes	158
Established	2017
Seat	Bayonne (Baiona)
Government
• President	Jean-René Etchegaray
Area	2,968 km2 (1,146 sq mi)
Population (2018)	312,278
• Density	105/km2 (270/sq mi)
Website	Communauté Pays Basque

The communauté d'agglomération du Pays Basque (Basque: Euskal Hirigune Elkargoa, "agglomeration community of the Basque Country"),^[1] is the agglomeration community (federation of communes), centred on the cities of Bayonne and Biarritz. Also referred to as the French Basque Country, or Northern Basque Country (Basque: Iparralde (lit. 'the Northern Region'), French: Pays basque, Spanish: País Vasco francés), it is located in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, southwestern France.

It was created in January 2017 by the merger of the former communauté de l'agglomération Côte Basque-Adour, communauté de l'agglomération Sud Pays Basque and eight communautés de communes.^[2] Its area is 2968 km². Its population was 312,278 in 2018, including 51,411 in Bayonne and 25,532 in Biarritz.^[3]

Composition

The Communauté d'agglomération du Pays Basque consists of the following 158 communes:^[2]^[4]^[5]

References

^ Euskal Herriko Elkargoa / Communauté Pays Basque. communate-paysbasque.fr (in Basque and French)
^ ^a ^b "Arrêté préfectoral du 13 juillet 2016 portant création de la communauté d'agglomération du Pays basque" (PDF) (in French).
^ Comparateur de territoire, INSEE, accessed 5 April 2022.
^ CA du Pays Basque (N° SIREN : 200067106), BANATIC. Accessed 5 April 2022.
^ INSEE

43°18′N 1°13′W / 43.300°N 1.217°W / 43.300; -1.217

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[1] Euskal Herriko Elkargoa / Communauté Pays Basque. communate-paysbasque.fr (in Basque and French)

[arrete-2] "Arrêté préfectoral du 13 juillet 2016 portant création de la communauté d'agglomération du Pays basque" (PDF) (in French).

[compar-3] Comparateur de territoire, INSEE, accessed 5 April 2022.

[BANATIC-4] CA du Pays Basque (N° SIREN : 200067106), BANATIC. Accessed 5 April 2022.

[5] INSEE

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Authority control databases
International	VIAF
National	France BnF data

Composition

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