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La Couronne is a commune in the Charente department of France, situated within the Arrondissement of Angoulême. It serves as the capital of the canton of la Couronne and is located in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. The municipality has an area of 28.82 square kilometers and an elevation of 137 meters above sea level. Its postal code is 16400.
The population of La Couronne is 8,230, comprising 3,704 males and 4,028 females. The commune shares borders with Angoulême, Mouthiers-sur-Boëme, Nersac, and Puymoyen. It is twinned with Itzehoe, Pasłęk, and Khotyn. The official name of the locality is La Couronne, La Palud.
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Place details
- Locality
- Breuty
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Population
- 7,590
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Key facts
- Country
- France
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Department
- Charente
- Arrondissement
- Angoulême
- Canton
- La Couronne
- Intercommunality
- Grand Angoulême
- Mayor 2020 2026
- Jean-François Dauré
- Area
- 28.82 km (11.13 sq mi)
- Population 2023
- 7,765
- Density
- 269.4/km (697.8/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Insee postal code
- 16113 /16400
- Elevation
- 31–137 m (102–449 ft) , (avg. 100 m or 330 ft)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- commune of France
- Official name
- La Palud
- Country
- France
- Located in
- Arrondissement of Angoulême
- Population
- 7765
- Area
- 28.82
- Elevation
- 73
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Vœuil-et-Giget
- Official website
- www.lacouronne.fr
- Image
- La couronne abbaye 1.JPG
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- twinned administrative body
- Khotyn
- Commons category
- La Couronne (Charente)
- postal code
- 16400
- associated electoral district
- canton of la Couronne
- male population
- 3704
- female population
- 4028
- P8168
- Lindblad Cove
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- phone number
- +33-5-45-67-28-11
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Encyclopedic overview
La Couronne ( French pronunciation: [la kuʁɔn]) is a commune in the Charente department in southwestern France.
The commune lies to the southwest of Angoulême. Jean-Edmond Laroche-Joubert (1820–1884) was born in La Couronne. He established two modern paper manufacturing plants in La Couronne, L’Escalier and Girac, where he installed second-generation machines almost 12 metres (39 ft) long making sheets of paper 1.25 to 1.5 metres (4 ft 1 in to 4 ft 11 in) wide.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “La Couronne” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.