Viriat

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Viriat
Commune
The Jugnon
Coat of arms
Location of Viriat
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Coordinates: 46°15′11″N 5°12′58″E / 46.253°N 5.216°E / 46.253; 5.216
Country	France
Region	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department	Ain
Arrondissement	Bourg-en-Bresse
Canton	Bourg-en-Bresse-1
Intercommunality	CA Bassin de Bourg-en-Bresse
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Bernard Perret^[1]
Area ¹	45.35 km² (17.51 sq mi)
Population (2021)^[2]	6,808
• Density	150/km² (390/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	01451 /01440
Elevation	206–257 m (676–843 ft) (avg. 230 m or 750 ft)
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Viriat (French pronunciation: [viʁja]) is a commune in the Ain department of eastern France.

History

Settlement there goes back to at least the Celtic period.

In the twelfth century, the name "Viriacus" appears in a record, referring to church and a priory.

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1793	2,122	—
1800	2,119	−0.02%
1806	2,199	+0.62%
1821	2,309	+0.33%
1831	2,394	+0.36%
1836	2,476	+0.68%
1841	2,535	+0.47%
1846	2,530	−0.04%
1851	2,587	+0.45%
1856	2,580	−0.05%
1861	2,578	−0.02%
1866	2,545	−0.26%
1872	2,629	+0.54%
1876	2,690	+0.58%
1881	2,708	+0.13%
1886	2,870	+1.17%
1891	2,741	−0.92%
1896	2,704	−0.27%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1901	2,580	−0.93%
1906	2,574	−0.05%
1911	2,529	−0.35%
1921	2,517	−0.05%
1926	2,578	+0.48%
1931	2,570	−0.06%
1936	2,579	+0.07%
1946	2,678	+0.38%
1954	2,660	−0.08%
1962	2,644	−0.08%
1968	3,012	+2.20%
1975	3,562	+2.42%
1982	3,997	+1.66%
1990	4,701	+2.05%
1999	5,288	+1.32%
2007	5,719	+0.98%
2012	6,160	+1.50%
2017	6,418	+0.82%

Source: EHESS^[3] and INSEE (1968-2017)^[4]

Twin towns

Viriat is twinned with:

Voinești, Vaslui, Romania, since 1989
Sorbolo, Italy, since 2000

See also

Communes of the Ain department

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022. Archived from the original on 28 June 2020. Retrieved 22 November 2022.
^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Viriat, EHESS (in French).
^ Population en historique depuis 1968 Archived 2 September 2022 at the Wayback Machine, INSEE

External links

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Official website

Communes of the Ain department

^pref: prefecture
^subpr: subprefecture

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