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Contes is a commune in France, situated within the Alpes-Maritimes department and the arrondissement of Nice. It serves as the capital of the canton of Contes. The municipality shares borders with Bendejun, Berre-les-Alpes, Blausasc, and Cantaron. Its official name is Contes, Pointe-Libre.
The area of the commune is 19.47 square kilometers, with an elevation above sea level of 642 meters. The population is recorded as 7,897, comprising 3,548 males and 3,876 females. Another source lists the population as 6,864. The postal code for the region is 06390.
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Place details
- Locality
- Contes
- Region
- Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
- Country
- France
- Population
- 6,864
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Country
- France
- Region
- Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
- Department
- Alpes-Maritimes
- Arrondissement
- Nice
- Canton
- Contes
- Intercommunality
- Pays des Paillons
- Mayor 2020 2026
- Francis Tujague
- Area
- 19.47 km (7.52 sq mi)
- Population 2023
- 7,897
- Density
- 405.6/km (1,050/sq mi)
- Demonym
- Contois
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Insee postal code
- 06048 /06390
- Elevation
- 123–642 m (404–2,106 ft) , (avg. 290 m or 950 ft)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- commune of France
- Official name
- Pointe-Libre
- Country
- France
- Located in
- arrondissement of Nice
- Population
- 7897
- Area
- 19.47
- Elevation
- 310
- Shares border with
- Coaraze
- Official website
- ville-contes.net
- Image
- Contes (Alpes-Maritimes) -18.JPG
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- Commons category
- Contes (Alpes-Maritimes)
- postal code
- 06390
- different from
- Contes
- associated electoral district
- canton of Contes
- male population
- 3548
- female population
- 3876
- P8168
- Peter Joseph Baltes
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- phone number
- +33-4-93-79-00-01
- fax number
- +33-4-93-79-06-67
- described by source
- Pauly–Wissowa
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Contes ( French pronunciation: [kɔ̃t]; Occitan: Còntes; Italian: Conti) is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in south-eastern France.
Its inhabitants are Contois. Because the village sounds like the French word comte, the aristocratic title count, it called itself Pointe-Libre during the revolutionary period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Contes” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.