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Mortain
Sign in to saveMortain () is a former commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Mortain-Bocage.
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Mortain is a former commune in the Manche department of Normandy, France. It served as the capital of the canton of Mortain and the canton of Le Mortainais. The area covered 7.44 square kilometers and had an elevation of 327 meters above sea level. Its postal code was 50140, and it shared borders with Le Neufbourg and Bion.
The population of Mortain was recorded as 3,238. The commune was dissolved on December 31, 2015, and replaced by the new commune of Mortain-Bocage. It is described in the 11th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.
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Place details
- Locality
- Mortain-Bocage
- Region
- Normandie
- Country
- France
- Population
- 2,470
- Timezone
- Europe/Paris
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Key facts
- French commune.name
- Mortain
- French commune.image coat of arms
- Blason ville fr Mortain (Manche).svg
- French commune.image
- France Mortain Abbaye Blanche bordercropped.jpg
- French commune.caption
- Abbaye Blanche
- French commune.arrondissement
- Avranches
- French commune.canton
- Le Mortainais
- French commune.INSEE
- 50359
- French commune.postal code
- 50140
- French commune.commune
- Mortain-Bocage
- French commune.elevation m
- 232
- French commune.elevation min m
- 102
- French commune.elevation max m
- 327
- French commune.area km2
- 7.44
- French commune.population
- 1547
- French commune.population date
- 2022
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- delegated commune
- Official name
- Mortain
- Country
- France
- Located in
- arrondissement of Avranches
- Population
- 1531
- Area
- 7.44
- Elevation
- 149
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Capital of
- canton of Le Mortainais
- Shares border with
- Bion
- Official website
- www.ville-mortain.fr
- Image
- Vuedemortain.jpg
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- Commons category
- Mortain
- postal code
- 50140
- replaced by
- Mortain-Bocage
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2015-12-31
- associated electoral district
- canton of Le Mortainais
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Encyclopedic overview
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Mortain () is a former commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Mortain-Bocage.
==Geography== Mortain is situated on a rocky hill rising above the gorge of the Cance, a tributary of the Sélune.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mortain” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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