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Deux-Sèvres

French department
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Summary

Deux-Sèvres is a department of France[1]. Deux-Sèvres draws 3,412 Wikipedia views per month (department of france category, ranking #72 of 147).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Nouvelle-Aquitaine[3]
  • Country: France[4]
  • Head of government: Éric Gautier[5]
  • Capital: Niort[6]
  • Shares border with: Charente[7], Charente-Maritime[8], Maine-et-Loire[9], Vendée[10], Vienne[11]
  • Named after: Sèvre Nantaise[12], Sèvre Niortaise[13]
  • Contains the administrative territorial entity: arrondissement of Bressuire[14], arrondissement of Niort[15], arrondissement of Parthenay[16]
  • Commons category: Deux-Sèvres[17]
  • Located in time zone: UTC+01:00[18], UTC+02:00[19]
  • Archives at: Departmental archives of Deux-Sèvres[20]
  • Inception: March 4, 1790[21]
  • Highest point: Terrier de Saint-Martin-du-Fouilloux[22]
  • Official website: http://www.deux-sevres.pref.gouv.fr/[23]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Deux-Sèvres[24]
  • Commons gallery: Deux-Sèvres[25]
  • Population: 369,270[26], 374,435[27], 374,351[28], 374,799[29], 374,878[30], 374,481[31], 374,587[32], 375,415[33], 375,229[34]
  • Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Deux-Sèvres[35]
  • Office held by head of government: president of departmental council[36]
  • Described by source: Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[37], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[38], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[39], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[40]
  • Official name: Deux-Sèvres[41]
  • List of monuments: Liste des monuments historiques des Deux-Sèvres[42]
  • Category for people born here: Category:Births in Deux-Sèvres[43]
  • Category for people who died here: Category:Deaths in Deux-Sèvres[44]
  • Category for films shot at this location: Category:Films shot in Deux-Sèvres[45]
  • Category of associated people: Category:People from Deux-Sèvres[46]

Why It Matters

Deux-Sèvres has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[47] Deux-Sèvres is known by 21 alternative names across languages and contexts.[48]

Related Entities

Aiffres Bressuire France Niort Parthenay

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  8. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . Populations légales 2017. wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . Populations légales 2018. wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . Populations légales 2019. wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . Populations légales 2020. wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . Populations légales 2021. wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . Populations de référence 2022. wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . Populations de référence 2023. wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  38. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  39. [41] ↑ . Code officiel géographique. wikidata.org.
  40. [42] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  41. [43] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  42. [44] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  43. [45] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  44. [46] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [47] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [48] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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