Bourg-lès-Valence

Bourg-lès-Valence (French pronunciation: [buʁ lɛ valɑ̃s]; Occitan: Lo Borg de Valença) is a commune in the Drôme department in southeastern France. It is a suburb of Valence. The archaeologist and Hellenist Fernand Courby (1878–1932) was born in Bourg-lès-Valence.

Bourg-lès-Valence
Commune
The centre of Bourg-lès-Valence
Coat of arms
Location of Bourg-lès-Valence
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Coordinates: 44°56′55″N 4°53′46″E
Country	France
Region	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department	Drôme
Arrondissement	Valence
Canton	Valence-1
Intercommunality	CA Valence Romans Agglo
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Marlène Mourier[1]
Area 1	20.3 km2 (7.8 sq mi)
Population  (2022)[2]	19,872
• Density	980/km2 (2,500/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	26058 /26500
Elevation	99–200 m (325–656 ft)
Website	http://www.bourg-les-valence.fr/
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

In 2014–2019, Bourg-lès-Valence was twinned with the town of Shusha (Shushi) of the de facto independent Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, but de jure part of Azerbaijan. In 2019, the administrative court of Grenoble declared the partnership treaty null and void due to the municipality having exceeded its power by unilaterally signing it and France's non-recognition of the de facto state.^[3]

Population

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 2,072 —     1800 2,086 +0.10% 1806 1,900 −1.54% 1821 2,647 +2.24% 1831 2,820 +0.64% 1836 2,898 +0.55% 1841 3,059 +1.09% 1846 3,110 +0.33% 1851 2,870 −1.59% 1856 3,057 +1.27% 1861 3,276 +1.39% 1866 3,615 +1.99% 1872 3,536 −0.37% 1876 3,757 +1.53% 1881 3,572 −1.00% 1886 3,995 +2.26% 1891 3,928 −0.34% 1896 4,336 +2.00%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 4,436 +0.46% 1906 4,750 +1.38% 1911 5,072 +1.32% 1921 5,241 +0.33% 1926 5,869 +2.29% 1931 6,471 +1.97% 1936 6,772 +0.91% 1946 7,662 +1.24% 1954 8,348 +1.08% 1962 10,856 +3.34% 1968 12,812 +2.80% 1975 15,616 +2.87% 1982 16,033 +0.38% 1990 18,230 +1.62% 1999 18,347 +0.07% 2007 18,351 +0.00% 2012 19,305 +1.02% 2017 19,975 +0.68%
Source: EHESS[4] and INSEE (1968–2017)[5]

See also

• Communes of the Drôme department