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Saint-Gilles
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commune in Gard, France
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Saint-Gilles is a commune in the Gard department of France, situated within the arrondissement of Nîmes and the Occitanie region. It serves as the capital of the canton of Saint-Gilles. The town shares borders with Arles, Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, Beauvoisin, and Bellegarde. Its official name includes Saint-Gilles, Héraclée, and Saint-Gilles-les-Boucheries.
The area of the commune is 153.73 square kilometers, with an elevation above sea level of 116 meters. The population is recorded as 14,734, comprising 6,843 males and 6,764 females. Saint-Gilles is twinned with Altopascio. The postal code for the area is 30800.
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Place details
- Locality
- Saint-Gilles
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Population
- 13,231
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Country
- France
- Region
- Occitania
- Department
- Gard
- Arrondissement
- Nîmes
- Canton
- Saint-Gilles
- Intercommunality
- CA Nîmes Métropole
- Mayor 2020 2026
- Eddy Valadier
- Area
- 153.73 km (59.36 sq mi)
- Population 2023
- 14,734
- Density
- 95.843/km (248.23/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Insee postal code
- 30258 /30800
- Elevation
- 0–116 m (0–381 ft) , (avg. 7 m or 23 ft)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- commune of France
- Official name
- Saint-Gilles-les-Boucheries
- Country
- France
- Located in
- arrondissement of Nîmes
- Population
- 14734
- Area
- 153.73
- Elevation
- 25
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Vauvert
- Official website
- www.saint-gilles.fr
- Image
- West church portal in St-Gilles-du-Gard.jpg
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- Commons category
- Saint-Gilles (Gard)
- postal code
- 30800
- twinned administrative body
- Altopascio
- topic's main category
- Category:Saint-Gilles (Gard)
- category for people born here
- Q9226891
- different from
- Saint-Gilles
- associated electoral district
- canton of Saint-Gilles
- male population
- 6843
- female population
- 6764
- P8168
- Sania Mirza
- described by source
- Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- phone number
- +33-4-34-39-58-00
- fax number
- +33-4-66-87-78-19
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Encyclopedic overview
Saint-Gilles ( French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ ʒil] ; Provençal: Sant Geli; English: St. Giles) or Saint-Gilles-du-Gard is a commune in the Gard department in southern France.
It is the second most populous commune in the Nîmes metropolitan area.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Saint-Gilles” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.