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La Coquille
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La Coquille is a commune in France, situated within the Dordogne department and the arrondissement of Nontron. It lies in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region and is part of the canton of Jumilhac-le-Grand, with an associated electoral district in the canton of Thiviers. The municipality borders Firbeix, Chalais, Mialet, and Saint-Pierre-de-Frugie. Its official name is La Coquille, Sainte-Marie-de-Frugie, and it is located within the Périgord Limousin Regional Natural Park.
The commune covers an area of 22.37 square kilometers and has an elevation of 432 meters above sea level. Population figures vary by source, with one listing 1,692 residents (596 male and 728 female) and another citing 1,393. The postal code for the area is 24450. La Coquille is twinned with Romrod.
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- Locality
- La Coquille
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Population
- 1,393
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Key facts
- Country
- France
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Department
- Dordogne
- Arrondissement
- Nontron
- Canton
- Thiviers
- Mayor 2020 2026
- Michèle Faure
- Area
- 22.37 km (8.64 sq mi)
- Population 2023
- 1,278
- Density
- 57.13/km (148.0/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Insee postal code
- 24133 /24450
- Elevation
- 259–432 m (850–1,417 ft)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- commune of France
- Official name
- Sainte-Marie-de-Frugie
- Country
- France
- Located in
- arrondissement of Nontron
- Population
- 1278
- Area
- 22.37
- Elevation
- 327
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Saint-Paul-la-Roche
- Official website
- www.ville-lacoquille.fr
- Image
- La Coquille (Dordogne fr),church and square.JPG
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- twinned administrative body
- Romrod
- Commons category
- La Coquille
- postal code
- 24450
- associated electoral district
- canton of Thiviers
- male population
- 596
- female population
- 728
- P8168
- Meizu M8
- located in protected area
- Périgord Limousin Regional Natural Park
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- phone number
- +33-5-53-52-80-56
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Encyclopedic overview
La Coquille ( French pronunciation: [la kɔkij]; Occitan: La Coquilha) is a commune in the Dordogne department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France.
La Coquille was on one of the five routes leading to Santiago de Compostela in Spain and it was in this parish that pilgrims were given a coquille Saint-Jacques, a scallop shell symbolic of the Way of St. James, the celebrated pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. From this fact came the name of the village of La Coquille.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “La Coquille” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.