Vire (French pronunciation: [viʁ] (listen)) is a town and a former commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Vire-Normandie.


Vire is situated at the confluence of the Vire and Touques rivers. The city is in a green area called "the Green Corrèze" (French: la Corrèze Verte), between Caen, Falaise, Saint-Lô and Alençon. It was built on both sides of a valley through which flows river Vire.
The town's inhabitants are known as Viréens or less commonly as Viréennes (feminine form).

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