Portes-lès-Valence

Commune in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Coat of arms

Location of Portes-lès-Valence

(2020–2026) Geneviève Girard^[1]Area

14.42 km² (5.57 sq mi)Population

(2021)^[2]

10,422 • Density720/km² (1,900/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal code

26252 /26800

Elevation106–183 m (348–600 ft)
(avg. 142 m or 466 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Portes-lès-Valence (French pronunciation: [pɔʁt lɛ valɑ̃s], literally Portes near Valence; Occitan: Pòrtas) is a commune in the Drôme department in southeastern France. It is a suburb of Valence.

Geography

Portes-lès-Valence is situated in the south side of Valence and it is part of its urban area.

Population

Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org.

Source: EHESS^[3] and INSEE (1968-2017)^[4]

International relations

Portes-lès-Valance is twinned with:

Baronissi - Italy (2006)^[5]^[6]

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Portes-lès-Valence, EHESS (in French).
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
^ (in French) The twinnage with Baronissi (Commune of Porte-lès-Valence)
^ (in Italian) Tenth anniversary of the twinnage with Portes-lès-Valence Archived 2017-02-27 at the Wayback Machine (Comune of Baronissi)]