Communauté d'agglomération du Pays Basque

Communauté Pays Basque / Euskal Hirigune Elkargoa
Communauté d'agglomération
Location within the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department
Country	France
Region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Pyrénées-Atlantiques
No. of communes	158
Established	2017
Seat	Bayonne (Baiona)
Government
• President	Alain Iriart (EH Bai)
Area	2,968 km2 (1,146 sq mi)
Population  (2018)	312,278
• Density	105.2/km2 (272.5/sq mi)
Website	Communauté Pays Basque

The communauté d'agglomération du Pays Basque (Occitan: Communautat d'aglomeracion del País Basco; Basque: Euskal Hirigune Elkargoa, "agglomeration community of the Basque Country"),¹ is the agglomeration community (federation of communes), centred on the cities of Bayonne and Biarritz. Also referred to as the French Basque Country, or Northern Basque Country (Basque: Iparralde (lit. 'the Northern Region'), French: Pays basque, Spanish: País Vasco francés), it is located in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, southwestern France.

It was created in January 2017 by the merger of the former communauté de l'agglomération Côte Basque-Adour, communauté de l'agglomération Sud Pays Basque and eight communautés de communes.² Its area is 2968 km². Its population was 312,278 in 2018, including 51,411 in Bayonne and 25,532 in Biarritz.³

Since April 11, 2026, is presided by Alain Iriart, the abertzale mayor of Hiriburu.⁴

The Communauté d'agglomération du Pays Basque consists of the following 158 communes:²⁵⁶