Saint-Père-en-Retz

Commune in Pays de la Loire, France

Coat of arms

Location of Saint-Père-en-Retz

(2020–2026) Jean-Pierre Audelin^[1]Area

62.72 km² (24.22 sq mi)Population

(2021)^[2]

4,620 • Density74/km² (190/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal code

44187 /44320

Elevation0–62 m (0–203 ft)
(avg. 14 m or 46 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Saint-Père-en-Retz (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ pɛʁ ɑ̃ ʁɛ] ^ⓘ, literally Saint-Père in Retz; Breton: Sant-Pêr-Raez) is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France.^[3] As of 2020 it has a population of 4,594.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	2,682	—
1975	2,627	−0.30%
1982	2,917	+1.51%
1990	3,250	+1.36%
1999	3,454	+0.68%
2007	3,933	+1.64%
2012	4,197	+1.31%
2017	4,564	+1.69%
Source: INSEE^[4]

Notable people

Francis Aupiais(1877-1945), missionary and ethnographer in Africa^[5]

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 4 May 2022.
^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ INSEE commune file
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
^ "Francis Aupiais". Dictionary of African Christian Biography. Dacb.org. 1 April 2007. Archived from the original on 26 March 2016. Retrieved 30 September 2016.