Deux-Sèvres (Department, France)

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See also:

• France
  • France: Metropolitan departments
• Clickable map of France (departments)
• Deux-Sèvres (Department, France): Municipal flags
  • Niort
  • Bressuire
  • Saint-Martin-de-Sanzay
  • Saint-Pardoux-en-Gâtine
    • Château-Bourdin

Administrative data

Code: 79
Region: Poitou-Charentes
Traditional provinces: Poitou, Angoumois, Saintonge
Bordering departments: Charente, Charente-Maritime, Maine-et-Loire, Vendée, Vienne

Area: 5,999 km²
Population (1995): 346,800 inhabitants

Préfecture: Niort
Sous-préfectures: Bressuire, Parthenay
Subdivisions: 3 arrondissements, 33 cantons, 303 communes.

The department is named after the two (Deux) rivers Sèvre Nantaise (126 km), tributary of Loire and Sèvre Niortaise (150 km), tributary of Atlantic Ocean.

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by Jaume Ollé