Grand Avignon (full name Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Avignon; Occitan: Communautat d'aglomeracion del Gran Avinhon) 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. Its area is 302.6 km2. Its population was 197,102 in 2022, of which 91,729 in Avignon proper.
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