Roannais Agglomération
Roannais Agglomération is the "communauté d'agglomération", an intercommunal structure, centred on the city of Roanne. It is located in the Loire department, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, east-central France. It was created in January 2013 by the merger of the former "Communauté d'agglomération Grand Roanne Agglomération" with 4 former "communautés de communes" and 1 other commune. Its seat is in Roanne. Its area is 689.3 km. Its population was 100,486 in 2017, of which 34,366 in Roanne proper. Composition. The communauté d'agglomération consists of the following 40 communes: