Loire-Atlantique
Loire-Atlantique
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Prefecture building in Nantes | |
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Flag Coat of arms | |
Location of Loire-Atlantique in France | |
| Coordinates: 47°20′N 1°40′W / 47.333°N 1.667°W | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Pays de la Loire |
| Prefecture | Nantes |
| Subprefectures | Châteaubriant Saint-Nazaire |
| Government | |
| • President of the Departmental Council | Michel Menard (PS) |
| Area | |
• Total | 6,881 km2 (2,657 sq mi) |
| Population (2023) | |
• Total | 1,487,570 |
| • Rank | 9th |
| • Density | 216.2/km2 (559.9/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Department number | 44 |
| Arrondissements | 3 |
| Cantons | 31 |
| Communes | 207 |
| ^1 French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, and lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km2 | |
Loire-Atlantique (French pronunciation: [lwaʁ atlɑ̃tik] ⓘ; Gallo: Louére-Atantique; Breton: Liger-Atlantel; before 1957: Loire-Inférieure, Breton: Liger-Izelañ) is a department in Pays de la Loire on the west coast of France, named after the river Loire and the Atlantic Ocean. It had a population of 1,429,272 in 2019.