Le Thou

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Coordinates: 46°05′04″N 0°54′56″E / 46.0844, 0.91556

Commune of Le Thou

Location
Le Thou (France)
Le Thou
Administration
Country France
Region Poitou-Charentes
Department Charente-Maritime
Arrondissement Rochefort
Canton Aigrefeuille-d'Aunis
Statistics
Elevation 15 m–48 m
(avg. 24 m)
Land area¹ 19 km²
Population²
(1999)
1,170
 - Density 61/km² (1999)
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code 17447/ 17290
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.
France

Le Thou is a commune in the canton of Aigrefeuille-d'Aunis of the Charente-Maritime département in the Poitou-Charentes region in western France. The Atlantic Ocean is situated to the west. In the mid-1960s, Le Thou's population surpassed Thairé and made it the second most populated commune in the canton.

[edit] Historical population

Year Population Density Percent of the canton
1962 720 - -
1968 792 - -
1975 844 - -
1982 975 - -
1990 1,024 - -
1999 1,170 61/km² 11.39%

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