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Domfront is a former commune in the Orne department of Normandy, France. It served as the capital of the canton of Domfront en Poiraie and was located within the Normandie-Maine Regional Natural Park. The area covered 35.54 square kilometers, with an elevation of 256 meters above sea level. Domfront shared borders with Saint-Bômer-les-Forges, Saint-Brice, and Lucé.
The population of the commune was 4,483. It was twinned with Seia. Domfront ceased to exist as an independent administrative entity on December 31, 2015, when it was replaced by the new commune of Domfront en Poiraie.
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Place details
- Locality
- Domfront en Poiraie
- Region
- Normandie
- Country
- France
- Population
- 4,402
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Country
- France
- Region
- Normandy
- Department
- Orne
- Arrondissement
- Alençon
- Canton
- Domfront ( chef-lieu )
- Commune
- Domfront-en-Poiraie
- Area
- 35.54 km (13.72 sq mi)
- Population 2022
- 3,414
- Density
- 96.06/km (248.8/sq mi)
- Demonym
- Domfrontais
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Elevation
- 117–256 m (384–840 ft) , (avg. 135 m or 443 ft)
- Website
- www.ville-domfront.fr
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- delegated commune
- Official name
- Domfront
- Country
- France
- Located in
- arrondissement of Alençon
- Continent
- Europe
- Population
- 3473
- Area
- 35.54
- Elevation
- 160
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Lucé
- Official website
- www.ville-domfront.fr
- Image
- Domfront - La mairie.JPG
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- twinned administrative body
- Seia
- Commons category
- Domfront (Orne)
- postal code
- 61700
- Commons gallery
- Domfront (Orne)
- replaced by
- Domfront en Poiraie
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2015-12-31
- associated electoral district
- canton of Domfront en Poiraie
- located in protected area
- Normandie-Maine Regional Natural Park
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Domfront ( French pronunciation: [dɔ̃fʁɔ̃] ) is a former commune in the Orne department in north-western France. It is classed as a Petites Cités de Caractère. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Domfront-en-Poiraie.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Domfront” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.