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Ganges

commune in Hérault, France
Place Commune Of France Q734074

Facts

21 properties

Identity

Instance of
commune of France
Official website
www.ganges.fr[12]
Official name
Ganges[31]

Location

Country
France[4]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 43.934°, 3.708°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Hérault, arrondissement of Lodève, arrondissement of Montpellier, Communauté de communes des Cévennes Gangeoises et Suménoises[1][2][3]
Shares border with
Sumène, Saint-Julien-de-la-Nef, Cazilhac, Laroque, Moulès-et-Baucels[6][7][8][9][10]

Population and size

Area
+7.16[38]
Elevation above sea level
252 (138–540, n=3)[35][36][37]
Female population
+2195[32]
Male population
+1829[33]
Population
3.7k (3.3k–4.9k, n=17)[13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26]

Codes

Postal code
34190[11]
More facts +8
Capital of
canton of Ganges, Wikidata item[29][30]
Associated electoral district
canton of Lodève[40]
Demonym
Gangeois[34]
Fax number
+33-4-67-73-00-50[39]
Head of government
Michel Fratissier[5]
Located in the statistical territorial entity
Aire d'attraction de Montpellier, Wikidata item[41][42]
Office held by the head of government
Mayor of Ganges[27]
Phone number
+33-4-67-73-85-03[28]
🏷️ Also known as
en Ganges el Γκανζ ja ガンジュ nl Ganges (Herault) ru Ганж uk Ґанж zh 冈日 zh-hant 岡日
🔖 Identifiers · 23
VIAF cluster ID
134989216
Library of Congress Authorities ID
n89121312
GND ID
4513743-2
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
136 Ganges.JPG ↗
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
15256712m
Data.gouv.fr organisation ID
5c45a5bf8b4c4104054cc9bf, 5c45a5c18b4c4104123ed6d5
EHESS ID of a French commune
15029
Email address
mailto:mairie@ganges.fr
FactGrid item ID
Clarendon Building
Freebase ID
/m/06fk4c
GeoNames ID
6432514, 3016714
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
1033234
Show all 23 identifiers +11
IdRef ID
027692817
Insee municipality code
34111
KnowWhereGraph entity ID
administrativeRegion.FRA.11.8.2.3.4_1
National Address Base ID
581a2269-046c-4575-b712-06359c4291eb
OpenStreetMap relation ID
164263
OpenWeatherMap city ID
3016714
Topic's main category
Category:Ganges (Hérault)
WOEID
592380
Who's on First ID
101831691
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJtrXxxtVXDHrC6XVx8wG3
Yale LUX ID
place/3d6e2b7e-9b9b-4fa4-9a9e-2e3e657a4b46

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🔗 Connections
People born here 8
Jules Émile Planchon, Fabre d'Olivet, George Roux, Nicolas Cozza, Armand Sabatier, Marc Bourrier, Grégory Meilhac, Gustave Planchon
Shares border with 5
Sumène, Cazilhac, Saint-Julien-de-la-Nef, Laroque, Moulès-et-Baucels
← Shares border with 5
Sumène, Cazilhac, Saint-Julien-de-la-Nef, Laroque, Moulès-et-Baucels
Located in the administrative territorial entity 3
Hérault, arrondissement of Montpellier, arrondissement of Lodève
Located in time zone 2
UTC+01:00, UTC+02:00
People who died here 2
Michel Hollard, Robert Killick-Kendrick
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 2
Hérault, canton of Ganges
Associated electoral district 1
canton of Lodève
Capital of 1
canton of Ganges
Country 1
France
FactGrid item ID 1
Clarendon Building
Instance of 1
commune of France
← Capital 1
canton of Ganges
← Different from 1
Ganges
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Direct Wikidata claims

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  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  11. [11] ↑ . dataset of postal codes in France. wikidata.org.
  12. [12] ↑ . Annuaire de service-public.fr. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [14] ↑ . National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. wikidata.org.
  15. [15] ↑ . Populations légales 2016. wikidata.org.
  16. [16] ↑ . Populations légales 2017. wikidata.org.
  17. [17] ↑ . Populations légales 2018. wikidata.org.
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  25. [25] ↑ . Populations légales 2019. wikidata.org.
  26. [26] ↑ . Populations légales 2020. wikidata.org.
  27. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [28] ↑ . Annuaire de service-public.fr. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  29. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [31] ↑ . Code officiel géographique. Retrieved . insee.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  32. [32] ↑ . National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. wikidata.org.
  33. [33] ↑ . National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. wikidata.org.
  34. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [35] ↑ . répertoire géographique des communes. wxs-telechargement.ign.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  37. [37] ↑ . Q133878296. data.geopf.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  38. [38] ↑ . répertoire géographique des communes. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  39. [39] ↑ . Annuaire de service-public.fr. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  40. [40] ↑ . Code officiel géographique. insee.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  41. [41] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  1. 11d ago · MystBot bot · 2026-11-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    "Changed claim qualifiers: Population: 3,724, Add reason for preferred rank to population for 2023 (details)"
  2. 27w ago · VIGNERON · 2026-05-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Office held by the head of government → Mayor of Ganges
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Hérault, arrondissement of Lodève, arrondissement of Montpellier +1
    Capital of → canton of Ganges, Wikidata item
    Instance of → commune of France
    + 15 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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