Monsec
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Place details
- Locality
- Mareuil en Périgord
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Population
- 165
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Key facts
- French commune.name
- Monsec
- French commune.image
- Monsec.jpg
- French commune.arrondissement
- Nontron
- French commune.canton
- Brantôme
- French commune.commune
- Mareuil en Périgord
- French commune.INSEE
- 24283
- French commune.postal code
- 24340
- French commune.elevation m
- 148
- French commune.elevation min m
- 131
- French commune.elevation max m
- 237
- French commune.area km2
- 12.45
- French commune.population
- 170
- French commune.population date
- 2022
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- delegated commune
- Official name
- Monsec
- Country
- France
- Located in
- arrondissement of Nontron
- Population
- 204
- Area
- 12.45
- Elevation
- 186
- Shares border with
- Vieux-Mareuil
- Image
- Monsec, l'église Notre-Dame.jpg
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- Commons category
- Monsec
- postal code
- 24340
- replaced by
- Mareuil en Périgord
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2016-12-31
- native label
- Monsec
- associated electoral district
- canton of Brantôme en Périgord
- P8168
- Adolf Kaegi
- located in protected area
- Périgord Limousin Regional Natural Park
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Geography
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Monsec (; Limousin: Montsec) is a former commune in the Dordogne department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Mareuil en Périgord.
==Geography== Monsec is in the Northwest of the Dordogne Department. The town is situated along the river Belle, a tributary of the Lizonne. The town of Monsec is situated on the border of the departmental road 939 which connects Périgueux and Angoulême.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Monsec” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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