Niort
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Location of Niort  | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine |
| Department | Deux-Sèvres |
| Arrondissement | Niort |
| Canton | Chi |
| Intercommunality | Niort |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2014-2020) | Jérôme Baloge |
| Area 1 | 68.20 km2 (26.33 sq mi) |
| Population (2006) | 60,486 |
| • Density | 890/km2 (2,300/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 79191 /79000 |
| Elevation | 2–77 m (6.6–252.6 ft) (avg. 28 m or 92 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Niort (pronounced [njɔʁ]; Latin: Novioritum) is a commune in the Deux-Sèvres department in western France.
The population of Niort is 60,486 and more than 137,000 people live in the urban area. Near Niort at Maisonnay there is one of the tallest radio masts in France (height: 330 metres).
Geography
The town is located on the Sèvre Niortaise River and is a centre of angelica cultivation in France.
Transport
Niort has a railway station on the TGV route between Paris and La Rochelle, Gare de Niort. Direct TGV to Paris Montparnasse station takes 2 hours and 15 minutes. Niort is a road and motorway junction, connected to Paris and Bordeaux by the A10 motorway, with Nantes by the A83, and with La Rochelle by the N11.
Neighbouring communes and villages
Toponymy
Economy
Niort is the French capital of mutual insurance and bank companies, with the headquarters of MAAF, MAIF, MACIF, SMACL and regional branches of national mutual companies such as Groupama, Banque Populaire. Niort is a main financial centre of France (fourth ranked after Paris, Lyon and Lille). Chemistry and aeronautics are the main industries.
Niort is a major administrative and commercial centre.
Population and society
Demography
Cultural events and festivities
Sports
The football team is Chamois Niortais, which plays in the Ligue 2, the second-highest league in French football. Rugby team Stade Niortais celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2009. The Dragons baseball team plays in the Regional League.[1]
Media
Personalities
Niort is the birthplace of the following:
- Achille-Félix Montaubry (1826–98), tenor associated with opéra comique and operetta
- Aurélien Capoue, footballer
- Étienne Capoue, footballer
- Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon (1635–1719), second wife of Louis XIV
- Henri-Georges Clouzot (1904–1977), film director
- Paul Collomp (1885–1943), French hellenist and papyrologist
- Julien N'Da, footballer
- Louis-Marcelin, marquis de Fontanes (1757–1821), poet and politician
- Mamadou Camara, footballer
- Mickaël Brunet, footballer
- Jacques Antoine Marie de Liniers et Brémond (Santiago Antonio María de Liniers y Bremond) (1753–1810), Spanish Viceroy in the Río de la Plata
- Jean Sauvaget (1901–1950), historian and orientalist
Climate
| Climate data for Niort (1981–2010 averages) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 17.0 (62.6) |
22.1 (71.8) |
25.5 (77.9) |
29.8 (85.6) |
32.3 (90.1) |
38.0 (100.4) |
38.1 (100.6) |
40.1 (104.2) |
35.7 (96.3) |
30.0 (86.0) |
22.9 (73.2) |
19.2 (66.6) |
40.1 (104.2) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 8.5 (47.3) |
10.0 (50.0) |
13.4 (56.1) |
16.0 (60.8) |
20.0 (68.0) |
23.7 (74.7) |
26.1 (79.0) |
26.1 (79.0) |
22.9 (73.2) |
18.0 (64.4) |
12.2 (54.0) |
8.9 (48.0) |
17.2 (63.0) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 2.4 (36.3) |
2.3 (36.1) |
4.0 (39.2) |
5.7 (42.3) |
9.4 (48.9) |
12.4 (54.3) |
14.3 (57.7) |
14.0 (57.2) |
11.6 (52.9) |
9.3 (48.7) |
5.1 (41.2) |
2.9 (37.2) |
7.8 (46.0) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −16.0 (3.2) |
−13.3 (8.1) |
−10.7 (12.7) |
−4.8 (23.4) |
−1.6 (29.1) |
3.1 (37.6) |
5.1 (41.2) |
4.4 (39.9) |
2.5 (36.5) |
−3.3 (26.1) |
−7.0 (19.4) |
−10.5 (13.1) |
−16.0 (3.2) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 84.4 (3.32) |
66.1 (2.60) |
63.8 (2.51) |
71.3 (2.81) |
69.9 (2.75) |
59.2 (2.33) |
55.5 (2.19) |
50.3 (1.98) |
60.5 (2.38) |
96.8 (3.81) |
93.2 (3.67) |
96.2 (3.79) |
867.2 (34.14) |
| Average precipitation days | 12.3 | 9.9 | 10.4 | 10.6 | 11.2 | 8.0 | 7.4 | 6.5 | 7.7 | 11.5 | 11.9 | 12.3 | 119.6 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 78.0 | 106.0 | 157.7 | 180.1 | 215.0 | 243.2 | 251.0 | 247.5 | 203.2 | 133.0 | 90.2 | 75.4 | 1,980.3 |
| Source: Meteo France[2][3] | |||||||||||||
Culture and heritage
International relations
Twin towns — Sister cities
Niort is twinned with:
Atakpamé, Togo, since 1958
Coburg, Bavaria, Germany, since 1974
Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom, since 1977
Springe, Lower Saxony, Germany, since 1979
Tomelloso, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, since 1981
Gijón, Asturias, Spain, since 1982
Biała Podlaska, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland, since 1995
Sights
See also
- Château de Niort
- Communes of the Deux-Sèvres department
- Pierre-Marie Poisson Niort War Memorial
References
- ^ Bernard, Augustin. Wikipedia.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help); Missing or empty|url=(help) - ^ "Données climatiques de la station de Niort" (in French). Meteo France. Retrieved 14 January 2016.
- ^ "Climat Poitou-Charentes" (in French). Meteo France. Retrieved 14 January 2016.
External links
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