"A communaut\u00E9 de communes (French: [k\u0254mynote d\u0259 k\u0254myn], \"community of communes\") is a federation of municipalities (communes) in France. It forms a framework within which local tasks are carried out together. It is the least-integrated form of intercommunality.On January 1, 2007, there were 2,400 communaut\u00E9s de communes in France (2,391 in metropolitan France and 9 in the overseas d\u00E9partements), with 26.48 million people living in them."@en .