title: Lorient Agglomération
text: # Lorient Agglomération
  
  Lorient Agglomération (Breton: An Oriant Tolpad-kêrioù) is the communauté d'agglomération, an intercommunal structure, centred on the city of Lorient. It is located in the Morbihan department, in the Brittany region, northwestern France. It was created in January 2014. Its area is 738.7 $km^2.$ Its population was 205,765 in 2020, of which 57,412 were in Lorient proper.
  
  ## Composition
  
  The communauté d'agglomération consists of the following 25 communes:
  
  * Brandérion
  * Bubry
  * Calan
  * Caudan
  * Cléguer
  * Gâvres
  * Gestel
  * Groix
  * Guidel
  * Hennebont
  * Inguiniel
  * Inzinzac-Lochrist
  * Lanester
  * Languidic
  * Lanvaudan
  * Larmor-Plage
  * Locmiquélic
  * Lorient
  * Ploemeur
  * Plouay
  * Pont-Scorff
  * Port-Louis
  * Quéven
  * Quistinic
  * Riantec
  
  The areas and populations (as per INSEE estimates as at 1 January 2020) are as follows:
  
  | Name | Agglomeration | Area in $km^2$ | Population 2020 estimate |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | Lorient | Lorient | 14.48 | 57,412 |
  | Ploemeur | Lorient | 39.72 | 18,537 |
  | Larmor-Plage | Lorient | 7.27 | 8,277 |
  | Quéven | Lorient | 23.93 | 8,816 |
  | Lanester | Lorient | 18.37 | 22,940 |
  | Caudan | Lorient | 42.63 | 7,091 |
  | Total | Lorient | 149.40 | 123,073 |
  | Hennebont | Hennebont | 18.57 | 15,873 |
  | Inzinzac-Lochrist | Hennebont | 44.67 | 6,535 |
  | Total | Hennebont | 63.24 | 22,408 |
  | Riantec | Riantec-Locmiquélic | 14.06 | 5,806 |
  | Locmiquélic | Riantec-Locmiquélic | 3.58 | 4,056 |
  | Port-Louis | Riantec-Locmiquélic | 1.07 | 2,672 |
  | Total | Riantec-Locmiquélic | 18.71 | 12,534 |
  | Guidel | Guidel | 52.29 | 11,743 |
  | Languidic | Languidic | 109.10 | 8,047 |
  | Plouay | Plouay | 67.33 | 5,789 |
  | Pont-Scorff | Pont-Scorff | 23.50 | 3,897 |
  | Cléguer | | 32.15 | 3,310 |
  | Gestel | | 6.25 | 2,609 |
  | Bubry | | 69.09 | 2,289 |
  | Groix (island) | | 14.82 | 2,256 |
  | Inguiniel | | 51.40 | 2,193 |
  | Brandérion | | 6.03 | 1,466 |
  | Quistinic | | 42.95 | 1,421 |
  | Calan | | 12.29 | 1,247 |
  | Lanvaudan | | 18.30 | 804 |
  | Gâvres | | 1.88 | 679 |
  | Totals | | 738.73 | 205,765 |
  