Donville-les-Bains (French pronunciation: [dɔ̃vil le bɛ̃]) is a commune in the Manche department, northwestern France.
Donville-les-Bains | |
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 The beach at Donville-les-Bains | |
Location of Donville-les-Bains  | |
  Donville-les-Bains  Donville-les-Bains | |
| Coordinates: 48°50′48″N 1°34′52″W / 48.8467°N 1.581°W | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Normandy |
| Department | Manche |
| Arrondissement | Avranches |
| Canton | Granville |
| Intercommunality | Granville, Terre et Mer |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2020–2026) | Gaëlle Fagnen[1] |
Area 1 | 2.75 km2 (1.06 sq mi) |
| Population (2021)[2] | 3,103 |
| • Density | 1,100/km2 (2,900/sq mi) |
| Demonym | Donvillais |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 50165 /50350 |
| Elevation | 0–68 m (0–223 ft) |
| Website | www.ville-donville-les-bains.fr |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Introduction
editDonville-les-Bains is located just outside Granville, a port on the Norman coast noted for ferry traffic to the Channel Islands. Rail service is available from Granville to Paris on a regular basis provided by SNCF, the French National Railway.
The town is also the origin of the English language surname Dunville/Dumville (originally Donville),[citation needed] which is found throughout the UK and former British colonies.[citation needed] People descended from this Norman line can be found in concentrations around Toronto, Thunder Bay, Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, and South Carolina.[citation needed] (However, Dunville, Newfoundland was not named after Donville-les-Bains; Dunville was named after the founding Dunphy family.)
Population
edit| Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
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| 1968 | 3,419 | — |
| 1975 | 3,495 | +0.31% |
| 1982 | 3,215 | −1.19% |
| 1990 | 3,199 | −0.06% |
| 1999 | 3,351 | +0.52% |
| 2007 | 3,326 | −0.09% |
| 2012 | 3,238 | −0.53% |
| 2017 | 3,166 | −0.45% |
| Source: INSEE[3] | ||
Heraldry
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The arms of Donville-les-Bains are blazoned : Gules, a sea-horse [i.e. a mythical hippocampus], and in chief a sun of 8 points Or.
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See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
- ^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
- ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
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