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Le Rouget
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Within Vinony's link graph, Le Rouget is referenced by 6 other articles, and connects out to France, time zone and geographic coordinate system.
It is catalogued under topics including Communes of France disestablished in 2016 and Former communes of Cantal.
Its subject is documented across 33 Wikipedia language editions.
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Place details
- Locality
- Le Rouget-Pers
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Population
- 912
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Key facts
- Country
- France
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Department
- Cantal
- Arrondissement
- Aurillac
- Canton
- Saint-Mamet-la-Salvetat
- Commune
- Le Rouget-Pers
- Area
- 8.23 km (3.18 sq mi)
- Population 2022
- 1,017
- Density
- 124/km (320/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Elevation
- 555–665 m (1,821–2,182 ft) , (avg. 600 m or 2,000 ft)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- delegated commune
- Official name
- Le Rouget
- Country
- France
- Located in
- arrondissement of Aurillac
- Population
- 971
- Area
- 8.23
- Elevation
- 585
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Saint-Mamet-la-Salvetat
- Image
- Le Rouget.JPG
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- Commons category
- Le Rouget
- postal code
- 15290
- replaced by
- Le Rouget-Pers
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2015-12-31
- associated electoral district
- canton of Saint-Paul-des-Landes
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Encyclopedic overview
Le Rouget ( French pronunciation: [lə ʁuʒɛ]; Languedocien: Lo Roget) is a former commune in the département of Cantal in south-central France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune Le Rouget-Pers.
Le Rouget, having grown from a hamlet as a result of coming of the railway, will not be found on many 19th-century maps. It was not granted commune status (and, with it, the right to elect a mayor of its own) until September 1945, but is today a more important commercial and employment centre than the nearby historic cantonal centres of Saint-Mamet-la-Salvetat and Laroquebrou, although it lacks their architectural and historical interest.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Le Rouget” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.