Grand Avignon (full name Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Avignon; ) is the communauté d'agglomération, an intercommunal structure, comprising the urban agglomeration centred on and around the city of Avignon. It is located in the Vaucluse and the Gard departments, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur and Occitanie regions, southern France. It was created in December 2000.CA du Grand Avignon (COGA) (N° SIREN : 248400251), BANATIC. Accessed 17 October 2024. Its area is 302.6 km2. Its population was 197,102 in 2022, of which 91,729 in Avignon proper.Comparateur de territoire, INSEE, accessed 5 April 2022.L'agglomération Grand Avignon , Grand Avignon, accessed 17 February 2023.
Composition
The urban area consists of the following 16 communes (of which 7 in the Gard department):
Les Angles, Gard Avignon, Vaucluse Caumont-sur-Durance, Vaucluse Entraigues-sur-la-Sorgue, Vaucluse Jonquerettes, Vaucluse Morières-lès-Avignon, Vaucluse Le Pontet, Vaucluse Pujaut, Gard Rochefort-du-Gard, Gard Roquemaure, Gard Saint-Saturnin-lès-Avignon, Vaucluse Sauveterre, Gard Saze, Gard Vedène, Vaucluse Velleron, Vaucluse Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, Gard
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