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Domfront

former commune in Orne, France
Place commune_of_france Q659992

Facts

20 properties

Identity

Instance of
commune of France, delegated commune[6]
Official website
www.domfront.com, www.ville-domfront.fr[13][14]
Official name
Domfront[32]

Location

Country
France[5]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 48.590°, -0.640°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Orne, arrondissement of Alençon[3][4]
Shares border with
Saint-Bômer-les-Forges, Saint-Brice, Lucé[7][8][9]

Population and size

Area
+35.54[36]
Elevation above sea level
160 (117–256, n=3)[33][34][35]
Population
3.5k (3.5k–4.5k, n=12)[15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26]

Codes

Postal code
61700[11]
More facts +9
Capital of
canton of Domfront en Poiraie, Wikidata item[30][31]
Associated electoral district
canton of Domfront en Poiraie[38]
Described by source
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[28]
Dissolved, abolished or demolished date
December 31, 2015[12]
Located in protected area
Normandie-Maine Regional Natural Park[37]
Member of
Les Plus Beaux Détours de France[2]
Office held by head of government
Mayor of Domfront[27]
Replaced by
Domfront en Poiraie[29]
Twinned administrative body
Seia[10]
🏷️ Also known as
en Domfront el Ντομφρόν fr Saint-Front ja ドンフロン ja ドムフロント ru Домфрон zh 栋夫龙 zh-hant 棟夫龍
🔖 Identifiers · 18
VIAF cluster ID
235554412
GND ID
4218982-2
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Domfront - La mairie.JPG ↗
ArchINFORM location ID
49146
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
15268077z
Biblissima authority ID
Wikidata item
Dewey Decimal Classification
2--4423
EHESS ID of a French commune
11959
FactGrid item ID
Wikidata item
Freebase ID
/m/03qgs73
GeoNames ID
6439080
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 6439080 BnF data 3021193 edition 2026-10-01 · fr-lo ↗
Insee municipality code
61145
Show all 18 identifiers +6
MusicBrainz area ID
0bfee5cd-f936-4f2c-a538-71f6f86e03e3
OpenStreetMap relation ID
1103094
SNARC ID
Heribert Jone
Topic's main category
Category:Domfront (Orne)
Who's on First ID
101762583
Yale LUX ID
place/69be79f6-d17a-4699-af9a-9d5865282556

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🔗 Connections
People born here 9
Eleanor of England, Auguste Chevalier, Sybilla of Normandy, Émile Deshayes de Marcère, Claude Duval, Philippe Hurel, Ralph of Domfront, Albert Christophle +1 more
Shares border with 3
Saint-Bômer-les-Forges, Saint-Brice, Lucé
Instance of 2
commune of France, delegated commune
Located in the administrative territorial entity 2
Orne, arrondissement of Alençon
Located in time zone 2
UTC+01:00, UTC+02:00
Associated electoral district 1
canton of Domfront en Poiraie
Capital of 1
canton of Domfront en Poiraie
Continent 1
Europe
Country 1
France
Described by source 1
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Located in protected area 1
Normandie-Maine Regional Natural Park
People who died here 1
William II Talvas
Replaced by 1
Domfront en Poiraie
Twinned administrative body 1
Seia
← Capital 1
canton of Domfront en Poiraie
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Orne
← Headquarters location 1
Le Publicateur libre
← Replaces 1
Domfront en Poiraie
← Shares border with 1
Lucé
← Twinned administrative body 1
Seia
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Summary

Domfront is a commune of France[1].

Related Entities

Eleanor of England France

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . dataset of postal codes in France. wikidata.org.
  10. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . Populations légales 2016. wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . Populations légales 2017. wikidata.org.
  25. [26] ↑ . Populations légales 2018. wikidata.org.
  26. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [30] ↑ . Code officiel géographique. insee.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  30. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [32] ↑ . Code officiel géographique. Retrieved . insee.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  32. [33] ↑ . répertoire géographique des communes. wxs-telechargement.ign.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  33. [34] ↑ . répertoire géographique des communes. wxs-telechargement.ign.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  34. [35] ↑ . Q133878296. data.geopf.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  35. [36] ↑ . répertoire géographique des communes. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  36. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [38] ↑ . Code officiel géographique. insee.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 15w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 48.590277777778, 'lon': -0.64027777777778}
    Instance of → —
    Twinned administrative body → Seia
    Instance of → commune of France, delegated commune
    + 28 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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