Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire

Commune in Pays de la Loire, France

Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire Sant-Sebastian-an-Enk (Breton)
Commune
Loire River
Coat of arms
Location of Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire
(2020–2026)		Laurent Turquois^[1]
Area ¹	11.66 km² (4.50 sq mi)
Population (2021)^[2]	28,283
• Density	2,400/km² (6,300/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	44190 /44230
Elevation	2–33 m (6.6–108.3 ft)
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ sebastjɛ̃ syʁ lwaʁ], literally Saint-Sébastien on Loire; Breton: Sant-Sebastian-an-Enk) is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France.^[3]

It is the third-largest suburb of the city of Nantes, and is adjacent to it on the southeast, across the river Loire. It has two railway stations on the line to Clisson: Saint-Sébastien-Pas-Enchantés and Saint-Sébastien-Frêne-Rond.

The territory of the commune was occupied at the earliest 3,000 years before our era.

During the Revolution, despite its proximity to Nantes, the commune sided massively against the Republic and joined the Vendée insurrection of March 1793.

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1793	2,507	—
1800	1,353	−8.43%
1806	1,377	+0.29%
1821	1,573	+0.89%
1831	1,605	+0.20%
1841	1,886	+1.63%
1846	1,985	+1.03%
1851	2,016	+0.31%
1856	1,976	−0.40%
1861	2,066	+0.89%
1866	2,349	+2.60%
1872	2,260	−0.64%
1876	2,340	+0.87%
1881	2,315	−0.21%
1886	2,419	+0.88%
1891	2,440	+0.17%
1896	2,497	+0.46%
1901	2,498	+0.01%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1906	2,610	+0.88%
1911	2,740	+0.98%
1921	3,096	+1.23%
1926	3,584	+2.97%
1931	4,534	+4.81%
1936	5,113	+2.43%
1946	6,637	+2.64%
1954	8,427	+3.03%
1962	11,830	+4.33%
1968	14,159	+3.04%
1975	17,326	+2.93%
1982	17,825	+0.41%
1990	22,202	+2.78%
1999	25,223	+1.43%
2007	24,724	−0.25%
2012	25,655	+0.74%
2017	26,838	+0.91%

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Source: EHESS^[4] and INSEE (1968-2017)^[5]

Twin towns - sister cities

Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire is twinned with:^[6]

Cernavodă, Romania
Glinde, Germany
Kaposvár, Hungary
Kati, Mali
Porthcawl, Wales

Personalities

Héloïse Adelaïde Letissier(born 1 June 1988) (age 31), professionally known as Christine and the Queens or simply Chris, is a French singer, songwriter and producer.
Clara Hervouet
Giovanni Sio (born 31 March 1989), footballer
Nates Geovannie, rugby player

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ INSEE commune file
^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire, EHESS (in French).
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
^ "Villes partenaires". saintsebastien.fr (in French). Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire. Archived from the original on 12 October 2020. Retrieved 18 November 2019.