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Place details
- Locality
- Bou
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Population
- 922
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Country
- France
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Department
- Loiret
- Arrondissement
- Orléans
- Canton
- Saint-Jean-de-Braye
- Intercommunality
- Orléans Métropole
- Mayor 2020 2026
- Bruno Coeur
- Area
- 6.29 km (2.43 sq mi)
- Population 2023
- 1,036
- Density
- 165/km (427/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Insee postal code
- 45043 /45430
- Elevation
- 97–102 m (318–335 ft)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- commune of France
- Official name
- Bou
- Country
- France
- Located in
- arrondissement of Orléans
- Population
- 1036
- Area
- 6.29
- Elevation
- 107
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Body of water
- Loire
- Shares border with
- Sandillon
- Official website
- www.mairiedebou.fr
- Image
- Bou rue du Bourg 1.jpg
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- Commons category
- Bou (Loiret)
- postal code
- 45430
- associated electoral district
- canton of Saint-Jean-de-Braye
- male population
- 491
- female population
- 467
- P8168
- Inge Deutschkron
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- phone number
- +33-2-38-58-15-65
- fax number
- +33-2-38-58-15-12
- contact page URL
- www.mairiedebou.fr/nous-contacter
- different from
- Bou
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Encyclopedic overview
Bou ( French pronunciation: [bu]) is a commune in the French department of Loiret, north-central France. The village is situated in the greater Orléans area, in a meander of the river Loire, 14 km east of Orléans and 9 km west of the town of Jargeau. Bou is separated by fields from the villages of Mardié and Chécy, which lie to the north. The village of Bou was traditionally an agricultural area, producing cereal crops and vegetables and a local wine known as Gris-meunier.
Population
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bou” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.