Villegats, Charente

Part of Courcôme in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

45°59′33″N 0°11′37″E / 45.9925°N 0.1936°E / 45.9925; 0.1936CountryFranceRegionNouvelle-AquitaineDepartmentCharenteArrondissementConfolensCantonCharente-NordCommuneCourcôme Area7.71 km² (2.98 sq mi)Population214 • Density28/km² (72/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)Postal codeElevation91–161 m (299–528 ft)
(avg. 133 m or 436 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Villegats (French pronunciation: [vilɡa]) is a former commune in the Charente department in southwestern France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the commune Courcôme.^[2]

Population

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% 1793 453 —     1800 485 +7.1% 1806 452 −6.8% 1821 513 +13.5% 1831 550 +7.2% 1841 461 −16.2% 1846 524 +13.7% 1851 468 −10.7% 1856 433 −7.5% 1861 388 −10.4% 1866 394 +1.5% 1872 407 +3.3% 1876 382 −6.1% 1881 384 +0.5% 1886 355 −7.6% 1891 354 −0.3% 1896 347 −2.0%

Year Pop. ±% 1901 324 −6.6% 1906 315 −2.8% 1911 298 −5.4% 1921 268 −10.1% 1926 252 −6.0% 1931 237 −6.0% 1936 238 +0.4% 1946 250 +5.0% 1954 230 −8.0% 1962 262 +13.9% 1968 234 −10.7% 1975 209 −10.7% 1982 258 +23.4% 1990 245 −5.0% 1999 264 +7.8% 2008 244 −7.6%

See also

• Communes of the Charente department

References