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Arrondissement Of Nantes
The arrondissement of Nantes is an arrondissement of France in the Loire-Atlantique department in the Pays de la Loire region. It has 76 communes. Its population is 830,509 (2016), and its area is . Composition The communes of the arrondissement of Nantes, and their INSEE codes, are: # Aigrefeuille-sur-Maine (44002) # Basse-Goulaine (44009) # Le Bignon (44014) # La Boissière-du-Doré (44016) # Bouaye (44018) # Bouguenais (44020) # Boussay (44022) # Brains (44024) # Carquefou (44026) # La Chapelle-Heulin (44032) # La Chapelle-sur-Erdre (44035) # Château-Thébaud (44037) # Cheix-en-Retz (44039) # La Chevrolière (44041) # Clisson (44043) # Corcoué-sur-Logne (44156) # Cordemais (44045) # Couëron (44047) # Divatte-sur-Loire (44029) # Geneston (44223) # Gétigné (44063) # Gorges (44064) # La Haie-Fouassière (44070) # Haute-Goulaine (44071) # Indre (44074) # Le Landreau (44079) # Legé (44081) # La Limouzinière (44083) # Le Loroux-Bottereau (44084) # Macheco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nantes
Nantes (, , ; Gallo: or ; ) is a city in Loire-Atlantique on the Loire, from the Atlantic coast. The city is the sixth largest in France, with a population of 314,138 in Nantes proper and a metropolitan area of nearly 1 million inhabitants (2018). With Saint-Nazaire, a seaport on the Loire estuary, Nantes forms one of the main north-western French metropolitan agglomerations. It is the administrative seat of the Loire-Atlantique department and the Pays de la Loire region, one of 18 regions of France. Nantes belongs historically and culturally to Brittany, a former duchy and province, and its omission from the modern administrative region of Brittany is controversial. Nantes was identified during classical antiquity as a port on the Loire. It was the seat of a bishopric at the end of the Roman era before it was conquered by the Bretons in 851. Although Nantes was the primary residence of the 15th-century dukes of Brittany, Rennes became the provincial capital after th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carquefou
Carquefou (; ) is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique, department in the region Pays de la Loire, in western France. Population Economy The headquarters of the geophysical research company Sercel is located in Carquefou Sport In 2008, the local football team Union Sportive Jeanne d'Arc Carquefou reached the quarter finals of the French Cup after a win over the 8-times national champions Olympique de Marseille on March 19, putting the town in the national headlines. See also *Communes of the Loire-Atlantique department The following is a list of the 207 communes of the Loire-Atlantique department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Communes of Loire-Atlantique {{Loir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gorges, Loire-Atlantique
Gorges (; br, Gored) is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France. Population International relations Gorges is twinned Twinning (making a twin of) may refer to: * In biology and agriculture, producing two offspring (i.e., twins) at a time, or having a tendency to do so; * Twin towns and sister cities, towns and cities involved in town twinning * Twinning inst ... with Alatri in Italy. See also * Communes of the Loire-Atlantique department References Communes of Loire-Atlantique {{LoireAtlantique-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gétigné
Gétigné (; Gallo: ''Jestniyaé'', br, Yestinieg) is a commune in the department of Loire-Atlantique in the Pays de la Loire region in western France. It was part of the Brittany-Poitou Marches, and is located in the Nantes vineyard. It forms with three contiguous communes the urban unit of Clisson. Geography The neighboring municipalities of Gétigné are Clisson and Boussay in Loire-Atlantique, Sèvremoine in Maine-et-Loire, and Cugand in Vendée. Gétigné occupies an indentation of Loire-Atlantique between Vendée and Maine-et-Loire. History The parish of Gétigné was founded in the Middle Ages around the twelfth century. In 1409, Gétigné joined the Brittany-Poitou Marches. Its crossroads of Anjou, Brittany and Poitou contribute to the economic and military development of the parish. The two rivers Moine and Sèvre saw the development of activities related to the use of hydropower with the presence of many mills. Since the Middle Ages, Gétigné has a church Sainte Ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geneston
Geneston (; Gallo: ''Jeneston'' or ''Jnéton'', br, Banaleg-ar-Gevred) is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France. Population The commune was created in 1954 from part of the commune of Montbert. Twin towns - Sister cities Geneston is twinned Twinning (making a twin of) may refer to: * In biology and agriculture, producing two offspring (i.e., twins) at a time, or having a tendency to do so; * Twin towns and sister cities, towns and cities involved in town twinning * Twinning inst ... with: * Covelo, Galicia, Spain Personalities * Philibert Delorme (1510–1570), architect * Rogatien Martin (1849–1912), monk in the Marquesas Islands. * Jean-Baptiste Legeay (1897–1943), active in the Resistance during World War II See also * Communes of the Loire-Atlantique department References Communes of Loire-Atlantique {{LoireAtlantique-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Divatte-sur-Loire
Divatte-sur-Loire (, literally ''Divatte on Loire''; br, Diwazh-Liger) is a commune in the department of Loire-Atlantique Loire-Atlantique (; br, Liger-Atlantel; before 1957: ''Loire-Inférieure'', br, Liger-Izelañ, link=no) is a department in Pays de la Loire on the west coast of France, named after the river Loire and the Atlantic Ocean. It had a population o ..., western France. The municipality was established on 1 January 2016 by merger of the former communes of La Chapelle-Basse-Mer and Barbechat. 20 October 2015 Population See also * Communes of the Loire-Atlantique department |
Couëron
Couëron (; ) is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France. It is part of the historic French Brittany. Couëron is one of the 24 communes of the Nantes Métropole. Geography Physical geography Couëron is located 10 miles (16 km) west of Nantes, on the North bank of the French longest river, the Loire. The town is bordered by the towns of Sautron and Vigneux-de-Bretagne to the north; Saint-Étienne-de-Montluc to the west; Indre to the east; Le Pellerin and Saint-Jean-de-Boiseau to the south. It is one of the 19 towns of the agglomeration of Nantes, therefore it is part of the Nantes Métropole (8th most populous across France) and the "espace urbain" of Nantes-Saint-Nazaire. Human geography For many years the city was the location of the Usine Pontgibaud-Tréfimétaux, which manufactured non-ferrous metal products. Couëron's public transportation is provided by the TAN. There are four bus lines: * line 91 * line 84 * night line J * line Expr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cordemais
Cordemais (; br, Kordevez) is a commune situated in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac .... Economy Cordemais Power Station is located in the town. Population See also * Communes of the Loire-Atlantique department References Communes of Loire-Atlantique {{LoireAtlantique-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corcoué-sur-Logne
Corcoué-sur-Logne (; Gallo: ''Corcóaé'', br, Kerc'haoueg) is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department Department may refer to: * Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility Government and military *Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ... in western France. Population See also * Communes of the Loire-Atlantique department References Communes of Loire-Atlantique {{LoireAtlantique-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clisson
Clisson (; br, Klison), is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France. It is situated at the confluence of the Sèvre Nantaise and the Moine southeast of Nantes. The town and the celebrated family of Clisson (the most famous members are Olivier IV de Clisson and Jeanne de Clisson) take their name from their stronghold. Clisson has its imposing ruins, parts of which date from the thirteenth century. The town and castle, the château de Clisson, were destroyed in 1792 and 1793 during the War in the Vendée. Afterwards, the sculptor François-Frédéric Lemot bought the castle, and the town was rebuilt in the early part of the 19th century according to his plans. There are picturesque parks on the banks of the rivers. The Moine is crossed by an old gothic bridge and by a fine modern viaduct. Population Culture The Hellfest music festival has taken place outside the town since 2006. International relations Clisson i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Chevrolière
La Chevrolière (; Gallo: ''La Chevrolèrr'', br, Kerc'hevrel) is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France. Population International relations La Chevrolière is twinned with Lyndhurst, United Kingdom. See also *Communes of the Loire-Atlantique department The following is a list of the 207 communes of the Loire-Atlantique department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):La Chevrolière Communes of Loire-Atlantique {{LoireAtlantique-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheix-en-Retz
Cheix-en-Retz (, literally ''Cheix in Retz''; br, Keiz-Raez) is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac .... Population See also * Communes of the Loire-Atlantique department References Communes of Loire-Atlantique Pornic Agglo Pays de Retz {{LoireAtlantique-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
