Verdun-sur-le-Doubs
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Commune of Verdun-sur-le-Doubs |
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Verdun-sur-le-Doubs | |
Location | |
Administration | |
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Country | France |
Region | Bourgogne |
Department | Saône-et-Loire |
Arrondissement | Chalon-sur-Saône |
Canton | Verdun-sur-le-Doubs (chief town) |
Intercommunality | Trois Rivières du Verdunois |
Statistics | |
Elevation | 173 m–180 m (avg. 180 m) |
Land area¹ | 7.27 km² |
Population² (1999) |
1,199 |
- Density | 164/km² (1999) |
Miscellaneous | |
INSEE/Postal code | 71566/ 71350 |
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once. | |
Verdun-sur-le-Doubs is a small market-town and commune in the Saône-et-Loire département, in France.
It is located in southern Burgundy at the confluence Doubs/Saône in the Bresse plain, near Beaune and Chalon-sur-Saône.
It is a very old implantation and played the role of fortified place at the French kingdom frontier during several centuries.
Today it's an agricol and touristic center well known for fishing, river boating and good eating. The "pôchouse" is the famous local dish with different types of river fishes cooked with dry Burgundy white wine ("Bourgogne aligoté") and cream.
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[edit] Demographics
As of the census of 1999, the population was 1,199.
The estimation for 2007 was 1,143.