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Bessac

commune in Charente, France
Place commune_of_france Q1352535

Facts

17 properties

Identity

Instance of
commune of France
Native label
Bessac[30]
Official name
Bessac[27]

Location

Country
France[4]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 45.430°, -0.019°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
canton of Blanzac-Porcheresse, Charente, Arrondissement of Angoulême[1][2][3]
Shares border with
Blanzac-Porcheresse, Brie-sous-Barbezieux, Cressac-Saint-Genis, Deviat, Poullignac, Saint-Aulais-la-Chapelle, Côteaux du Blanzacais[5][6][7][8][9]

Population and size

Area
+10.55[34]
Elevation above sea level
97 (62–162, n=3)[31][32][33]
Female population
+53[28]
Male population
+54[29]
Population
122 (107–189, n=17)[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 120 · 114 · 111 · 107 · 109 GeoNames 135 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗

Codes

Postal code
16250[10]
More facts +4
Associated electoral district
canton of Tude-et-Lavalette[36]
Fax number
+33-5-45-64-05-50[35]
Office held by head of government
Mayor of Bessac[25]
Phone number
+33-5-45-64-06-96[26]
🏷️ Also known as
en Bessac ru Бессак uk Бесак zh 贝萨克 zh-hant 貝薩克
🔖 Identifiers · 14
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Bessac 16 Le bourg 2014.jpg ↗
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
15248480j
EHESS ID of a French commune
3947
Email address
mailto:mairie.bessac@wanadoo.fr
FactGrid item ID
Dominik Behr
Freebase ID
/m/03mc5zr
GNS Unique Feature ID
-1412218
GeoNames ID
3033103
Insee municipality code
16041
KnowWhereGraph entity ID
administrativeRegion.FRA.10.2.1.3.3_1
Kulturenvanteri taxonomy ID
15022
National Address Base ID
e08f4d53-de96-40ef-8107-e126a784bf04
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OpenStreetMap relation ID
1894795
Who's on First ID
1126036803

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🔗 Connections
← Shares border with 7
Deviat, Brie-sous-Barbezieux, Poullignac, Saint-Aulais-la-Chapelle, Blanzac-Porcheresse, Cressac-Saint-Genis, Côteaux du Blanzacais
Shares border with 5
Deviat, Brie-sous-Barbezieux, Poullignac, Saint-Aulais-la-Chapelle, Côteaux du Blanzacais
Located in the administrative territorial entity 3
Charente, Arrondissement of Angoulême, canton of Blanzac-Porcheresse
Located in time zone 2
UTC+01:00, UTC+02:00
Associated electoral district 1
canton of Tude-et-Lavalette
Country 1
France
Instance of 1
commune of France
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
canton of Blanzac-Porcheresse
← FactGrid item ID 1
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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [1] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [10] ↑ . dataset of postal codes in France. wikidata.org.
  11. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [12] ↑ . National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. wikidata.org.
  13. [13] ↑ . Populations légales 2016. wikidata.org.
  14. [14] ↑ . Populations légales 2017. wikidata.org.
  15. [15] ↑ . Populations légales 2018. wikidata.org.
  16. [16] ↑ . insee.fr. Retrieved . insee.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [17] ↑ . insee.fr. Retrieved . insee.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [18] ↑ . insee.fr. Retrieved . insee.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [19] ↑ . insee.fr. Retrieved . insee.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [20] ↑ . insee.fr. Retrieved . insee.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [21] ↑ . insee.fr. Retrieved . insee.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [22] ↑ . insee.fr. Retrieved . insee.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [23] ↑ . Populations légales 2020. wikidata.org.
  24. [24] ↑ . Populations légales 2021. wikidata.org.
  25. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [26] ↑ . Annuaire de service-public.fr. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  27. [27] ↑ . Code officiel géographique. Retrieved . insee.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  28. [28] ↑ . National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. wikidata.org.
  29. [29] ↑ . National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. wikidata.org.
  30. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [31] ↑ . répertoire géographique des communes. wxs-telechargement.ign.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  32. [32] ↑ . répertoire géographique des communes. wxs-telechargement.ign.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  33. [33] ↑ . Q133878296. data.geopf.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  34. [34] ↑ . répertoire géographique des communes. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  35. [35] ↑ . Annuaire de service-public.fr. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  36. [36] ↑ . Code officiel géographique. data.gouv.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.

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  1. 7d ago · MystBot bot · 2026-10-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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  2. 26w ago · VIGNERON · 2026-05-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Female population → {'amount': '+53'}
    Elevation above sea level → {'unit': 'Q11573', 'amount': '+62'}, {'unit': 'Q11573', 'amount': '+162'}, {'unit': 'Q11573', 'amount': '+97'}
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