Agon-Coutainville

Agon-Coutainville
Commune
The beach at Coutainville
Coat of arms
Location of Agon-Coutainville
Agon-Coutainville Agon-Coutainville
Coordinates: 49°02′N 1°35′W
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Manche
Arrondissement	Coutances
Canton	Agon-Coutainville
Intercommunality	Saint-Malo-de-la-Lande
Government
• Mayor (2014–2020)	Christian Dutertre
Area 1	12.35 km2 (4.77 sq mi)
Population  (2014)	2,798
• Density	230/km2 (590/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	50003 /50230
Elevation	0–46 m (0–151 ft) (avg. 39 m or 128 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Agon-Coutainville is a commune in the Manche department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±%
1793	1,556	—
1800	1,399	−10.1%
1806	1,632	+16.7%
1821	1,446	−11.4%
1831	1,506	+4.1%
1836	1,462	−2.9%
1841	1,561	+6.8%
1846	1,533	−1.8%
1851	1,530	−0.2%
1856	1,465	−4.2%
1861	1,605	+9.6%
1866	1,602	−0.2%
1872	1,600	−0.1%
1876	1,570	−1.9%
1881	1,595	+1.6%
1886	1,597	+0.1%
1891	1,590	−0.4%
1896	1,614	+1.5%
1901	1,644	+1.9%
1906	1,664	+1.2%
1911	1,717	+3.2%
1921	1,469	−14.4%
1926	1,503	+2.3%
1931	1,795	+19.4%
1936	1,754	−2.3%
1946	3,629	+106.9%
1954	2,551	−29.7%
1962	2,341	−8.2%
1968	2,280	−2.6%
1975	2,349	+3.0%
1982	2,321	−1.2%
1990	2,510	+8.1%
1999	2,723	+8.5%
2009	2,826	+3.8%

Heraldry

Arms of Agon-Coutainville

The arms of Agon-Coutainville are blazoned : Quarterly: 1&4 Gules, in bend sinister 3 leopards bendwise; 2 Azure, per fess azure and barry argent and azure, a sail and in sinister chief 2 seagulls argent; 3 Vert, a horse head contourny between tennis raquet with a ball and a golf club with a ball argent.

Personalities

• Berthe Dagmar (1881–1934)
• This is the village of radio personality Madame Leprieur.

See also

• Communes of the Manche department

References

• INSEE statistics