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Urt

Commune in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

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Urt (French pronunciation: [yʁt]; Occitan: Urt; Basque: Ahurti) is a village and a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in south-western France. It is part of the traditional province of Labourd.

Urt is the location of the Benedictine Belloc Abbey for monks and of St. Scholastica's Abbey for nuns. Urt station has rail connections to Tarbes, Pau and Bayonne.

The village is 15 km east of Bayonne.

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Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
1968 1,047,     
1975 1,055+0.11%
1982 1,120+0.86%
1990 1,583+4.42%
1999 1,702+0.81%
2007 2,028+2.21%
2012 2,220+1.83%
2017 2,301+0.72%
2023 2,346+0.32%
Source: INSEE
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