Sort-en-Chalosse
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| region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | |
| Department | Country | |
| Arrondissement | Dax | |
| Canton | Coteau de Chalosse | |
| Community association | Terres de Chalosse | |
| Coordinates | 43 ° 41 ′ N , 0 ° 56 ′ W | |
| height | 8-50 m | |
| surface | 15.39 km 2 | |
| Residents | 945 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 61 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 40180 | |
| INSEE code | 40308 | |
| Website | http://www.sort-en-chalosse.fr/ | |
Sort-en-Chalosse ( Occitan : SORT ) is a commune with 945 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in the Landes department in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine . It belongs to the Arrondissement of Dax and the canton of Coteau de Chalosse (until 2015: canton of Montfort-en-Chalosse ). The residents call themselves Sortois .
geography
Sort-en-Chalosse is located in the Marensin countryside on the edge of the vast Landes de Gascogne , the largest forest area in Western Europe, about nine kilometers east-southeast of Dax . The Luy flows through the municipality . Sort-en-Chalosse is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Hinx in the north, Poyartin in the east, Garrey in the south and south-east, Clermont in the south, Mimbaste in the south-west, Saugnac-et-Cambran in the west and Candresse in the north-west.
| Population development | |
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| year | Residents |
| 1962 | 594 |
| 1968 | 541 |
| 1975 | 573 |
| 1982 | 617 |
| 1990 | 696 |
| 1999 | 707 |
| 2006 | 806 |
| 2012 | 917 |
Attractions
- Church, monument historique
- Cross Le Pont, Monument historique
- Notre Dame, partly during the French Revolution destroyed
