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Place details
- Locality
- Sauternes
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Population
- 644
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Country
- France
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Department
- Gironde
- Arrondissement
- Langon
- Canton
- Le Sud-Gironde
- Mayor 2020 2026
- Yann Marot
- Area
- 11.32 km (4.37 sq mi)
- Density
- 69.6/km (180/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Insee postal code
- 33504 /33210
- Elevation
- 13–89 m (43–292 ft) , (avg. 80 m or 260 ft)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- commune of France
- Official name
- Sauternes
- Country
- France
- Located in
- arrondissement of Langon
- Population
- 788
- Area
- 11.32
- Elevation
- 57
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Fargues
- Official website
- www.sauternes.com
- Image
- Sauternes Mairie.jpg
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- Commons category
- Sauternes
- Commons gallery
- Sauternes
- postal code
- 33210
- associated electoral district
- canton of Sud-Gironde
- male population
- 389
- female population
- 401
- P8168
- Mucoromycotina
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- phone number
- +33-5-56-76-61-12
Sources (4)
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Encyclopedic overview
Sauternes ( French pronunciation: [sotɛʁn]; Occitan: Sautèrnas) is a commune in the Gironde department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France.
It is also a wine region within the Graves portion of Bordeaux that produces sweet white dessert wines, named "Sauternes" after the commune, as well as some dry white wine.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sauternes” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.