Ligueux, Dordogne

Ligueux
Ligueux
Location within Nouvelle-Aquitaine region  Ligueux
Coordinates: 45°18′36″N 0°49′11″E / 45.31°N 0.8197°ECoordinates: 45°18′36″N 0°49′11″E / 45.31°N 0.8197°E
Country	France
Region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Dordogne
Arrondissement	Périgueux
Canton	Savignac-les-Églises
Intercommunality	Villages truffiers des portes de Périgueux
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Sylviane Labrousse
Area^1	6.66 km^2 (2.57 sq mi)
Population (2008)^2	263
• Density	39/km^2 (100/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
INSEE/Postal code	24239 / 24460
Elevation	133–212 m (436–696 ft) (avg. 180 m or 590 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. ^2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Ligueux is a former commune in the Dordogne department in southwestern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune Sorges-et-Ligueux-en-Périgord.^[1]

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1793	381	—
1800	409	+7.3%
1806	562	+37.4%
1821	376	−33.1%
1831	544	+44.7%
1836	556	+2.2%
1841	538	−3.2%
1846	542	+0.7%
1851	535	−1.3%
1856	580	+8.4%
1861	552	−4.8%
1866	554	+0.4%
1872	535	−3.4%
1876	514	−3.9%
1881	518	+0.8%
1886	503	−2.9%
1891	461	−8.3%
1896	477	+3.5%
1901	452	−5.2%
1906	443	−2.0%
1911	431	−2.7%
1921	377	−12.5%
1926	360	−4.5%
1931	352	−2.2%
1936	329	−6.5%
1946	321	−2.4%
1954	331	+3.1%
1962	275	−16.9%
1968	266	−3.3%
1975	211	−20.7%
1982	219	+3.8%
1990	223	+1.8%
1999	204	−8.5%
2008	263	+28.9%

See also

• Communes of the Dordogne department

References

• INSEE

1. Arrêté préfectoral 21 December 2015 (French)