A communauté d'agglomération is an administrative division in France, larger than a commune, but smaller than a département.
An urban area that consist of several small cities and their environs, but no large central city, can be organized into a communauté d'agglomération for regional planning purposes. (The metropolitan area of a large city is instead organized into a communauté urbaine).
Communautés d'agglomération include
Cergy-Pontoise
Communaupole of Lens-Liévin
Communauté d'agglomération de l'Artois (Artois Comm.)
As of February 2004 estimate, the total population of the Community of Agglomeration of Greater Toulouse was 651,209 inhabitants, 65.5% of whom live in the city of Toulouse.