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Thuir

Commune in Occitania, France

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Thuir (French pronunciation: [tɥiʁ] ; Catalan: Tuïr, [tuˈi]) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department, southern France.

01Geography

Thuir is located southwest of Perpignan, in the canton of Les Aspres and in the arrondissement of Ceret. It is situated in a plain between the natural zones of the Aspres and the Riberal.

Map of Thuir and its surrounding communes
Map of Thuir and its surrounding communes

02Population

Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
1968 4,192,     
1975 6,023+5.31%
1982 6,356+0.77%
1990 6,638+0.54%
1999 7,257+1.00%
2007 7,415+0.27%
2012 7,189−0.62%
2017 7,635+1.21%
2023 8,243+1.29%
Source: INSEE
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Sources and credits

This article is adapted from the Wikipedia article Thuir, written by its contributors and licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Fathomly has changed the layout, removed citation markers, navigation and maintenance notices, and adjusted punctuation. This adapted version is shared under the same license. For references, see the original article.

Images, from Wikimedia Commons:

  • Mairie de Thuir (66).jpg by Indif, CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Map commune FR insee code 66210.png by Map data (c) OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA Legend • Shape files infrastructure: railway, highways, water: all originally by OpenStreetMap contributors. Status december 2011 • Label and Insee code commune: from Geofla (note that commune boundaries are also available under free license at geofla, but not near acceptable quality due to extreme simplification!) • Data for exact commune* and department boundaries: derived via osm download geofabrik.de and osm2pgsql, OpenStreetMap contributors. • Data for landuse: OSM / Corine land cover, 2006 ([1]) • Mentioned sources combined and exported for each commune using a script by Michiel1972 *note: shown commune boundaries are from OSM dump May 2012; at that time about 90% complete, CC BY 2.0

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