Bellevigne-les-Châteaux

Commune in Pays de la Loire, France

Coat of arms

Location of Bellevigne-les-Châteaux

(2020–2026) Armel Froger^[1]Area

35.10 km² (13.55 sq mi)Population

(2021)^[2]

3,463 • Density99/km² (260/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal code

49060 /49400

Elevation25–104 m (82–341 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Bellevigne-les-Châteaux (French pronunciation: [bɛlviɲ le ʃato] ^ⓘ) is a commune in the Maine-et-Loire department in western France. It was established on 1 January 2019 by merger of the former communes of Chacé (the seat), Brézé and Saint-Cyr-en-Bourg.^[3]

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	2,445	—
1975	2,715	+1.51%
1982	3,449	+3.48%
1990	3,830	+1.32%
1999	3,678	−0.45%
2007	3,554	−0.43%
2012	3,589	+0.20%
2017	3,520	−0.39%
Source: INSEE^[4]

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ Arrêté préfectoral 20 September 2018 (in French)
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE