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Le Rouget
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Place details
- Locality
- Le Rouget-Pers
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Population
- 912
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Key facts
- Country
- France
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Department
- Cantal
- Arrondissement
- Aurillac
- Canton
- Saint-Mamet-la-Salvetat
- Commune
- Le Rouget-Pers
- Area
- 8.23 km (3.18 sq mi)
- Population 2022
- 1,017
- Density
- 124/km (320/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Elevation
- 555–665 m (1,821–2,182 ft) , (avg. 600 m or 2,000 ft)
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Le Rouget
- Population
- 971
- Area
- 8.23
- Elevation
- 585
- Image
- Le Rouget.JPG
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- Commons category
- Le Rouget
- postal code
- 15290
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2015-12-31
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Article
Le Rouget ( French pronunciation: [lə ʁuʒɛ]; Languedocien: Lo Roget) is a former commune in the département of Cantal in south-central France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune Le Rouget-Pers.
Le Rouget, having grown from a hamlet as a result of coming of the railway, will not be found on many 19th-century maps. It was not granted commune status (and, with it, the right to elect a mayor of its own) until September 1945, but is today a more important commercial and employment centre than the nearby historic cantonal centres of Saint-Mamet-la-Salvetat and Laroquebrou, although it lacks their architectural and historical interest.