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Couvains

commune in Manche, France
Place commune_of_france Q388002

Facts

18 properties
Instance of
commune of France
Country
France[4]
Official website
mairiedecouvains.pagesperso-orange.fr[14]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 49.166°, -1.007°
Archives at
Departmental archives of Manche[13]
Area
+15.03[38]
Associated electoral district
canton of Pont-Hébert[39]
Elevation above sea level
110 (59–147, n=4)[34][35][36][37]
Female population
+237[32]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
canton of Saint-Clair-sur-l'Elle, Manche, arrondissement of Saint-Lô[1][2][3]
Located in the statistical territorial entity
Aire d'attraction de Saint-Lô[40]
Male population
+270[33]
Office held by head of government
Mayor of Couvains[29]
Official name
Couvains[31]
Phone number
+33-2-33-05-80-46[30]
Population
562 (383–577, n=17)[15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 466 · 482 · 491 · 507 · 525 GeoNames 488 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
Postal code
50680[12]
Shares border with
Saint-Jean-de-Savigny, Cerisy-la-Forêt, La Luzerne, Saint-André-de-l'Épine, Saint-Clair-sur-l'Elle, Saint-Georges-d'Elle, Villiers-Fossard[5][6][7][8][9][10][11]
🏷️ Also known as
en Couvains el Κουβαίν nl Couvains (Manche) uk Кувен zh 库万
🔖 Identifiers · 13
VIAF cluster ID
296445753
Library of Congress authority ID
no2013018988
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
FranceNormandieCouvainsEglise.jpg ↗
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
15262125j
EHESS ID of a French commune
10870
Email address
mailto:mairie.couvains@wanadoo.fr
FactGrid item ID
Lucy Hillebrand
Freebase ID
/m/03x_vzg
GeoNames ID
6616903
Insee municipality code
50148
National Address Base ID
de06ad66-5fd5-410d-8f11-d0ea3bb0642d
OpenStreetMap relation ID
404192
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Who's on First ID
1125899171

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🔗 Connections
Shares border with 7
Cerisy-la-Forêt, La Luzerne, Saint-André-de-l'Épine, Saint-Clair-sur-l'Elle, Saint-Georges-d'Elle, Saint-Jean-de-Savigny, Villiers-Fossard
← Shares border with 7
Cerisy-la-Forêt, La Luzerne, Saint-André-de-l'Épine, Saint-Clair-sur-l'Elle, Saint-Georges-d'Elle, Saint-Jean-de-Savigny, Villiers-Fossard
Located in the administrative territorial entity 3
Manche, arrondissement of Saint-Lô, canton of Saint-Clair-sur-l'Elle
Located in time zone 2
UTC+01:00, UTC+02:00
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 2
Manche, canton of Saint-Clair-sur-l'Elle
Associated electoral district 1
canton of Pont-Hébert
Country 1
France
FactGrid item ID 1
Lucy Hillebrand
Instance of 1
commune of France
← FactGrid item ID 1
Wanstead
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Related Entities

Cerisy-la-Forêt France

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  9. [1] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [12] ↑ . dataset of postal codes in France. wikidata.org.
  13. [13] ↑ . archives-manche.fr. Retrieved . archives-manche.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [14] ↑ . Annuaire de service-public.fr. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [16] ↑ . National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. wikidata.org.
  17. [17] ↑ . Populations légales 2016. wikidata.org.
  18. [18] ↑ . Populations légales 2017. wikidata.org.
  19. [19] ↑ . Populations légales 2018. wikidata.org.
  20. [20] ↑ . insee.fr. Retrieved . insee.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  26. [26] ↑ . insee.fr. Retrieved . insee.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  27. [27] ↑ . Populations légales 2019. wikidata.org.
  28. [28] ↑ . Populations légales 2020. wikidata.org.
  29. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [30] ↑ . Annuaire de service-public.fr. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  31. [31] ↑ . Code officiel géographique. Retrieved . insee.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  32. [32] ↑ . National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. wikidata.org.
  33. [33] ↑ . National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. wikidata.org.
  34. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [35] ↑ . répertoire géographique des communes. wxs-telechargement.ign.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  36. [36] ↑ . répertoire géographique des communes. wxs-telechargement.ign.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  37. [37] ↑ . Q133878296. data.geopf.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  38. [38] ↑ . répertoire géographique des communes. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  39. [39] ↑ . Code officiel géographique. insee.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  40. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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  1. 2d ago · MystBot bot · 2026-11-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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  2. 26w ago · VIGNERON · 2026-05-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Population → {'amount': '+466'}, {'amount': '+482'}, {'amount': '+491'} +14
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