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Nièvre

French department
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Summary

Nièvre is a department of France[1]. Nièvre draws 2,990 Wikipedia views per month (department of france category, ranking #69 of 147).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Bourgogne-Franche-Comté[3]
  • Country: France[4]
  • Head of government: Alain Lassus[5]
  • Capital: Nevers[6]
  • Shares border with: Cher[7], Loiret[8], Yonne[9], Côte-d’Or[10], Saône-et-Loire[11], Allier[12]
  • Named after: Nièvre[13]
  • Contains the administrative territorial entity: arrondissement of Château-Chinon[14], arrondissement of Clamecy[15], arrondissement of Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire[16], arrondissement of Nevers[17]
  • Commons category: Nièvre[18]
  • Located in time zone: UTC+01:00[19], UTC+02:00[20]
  • Inception: March 4, 1790[21]
  • Highest point: Grand Montarnu[22]
  • Official website: http://www.nievre.gouv.fr/[23]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Nièvre[24]
  • Commons gallery: Nièvre[25]
  • Population: 214,303[26], 211,747[27], 207,182[28], 205,828[29], 199,518[30], 204,452[31], 202,670[32], 202,417[33], 202,299[34], 201,417[35]
  • Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Nièvre[36]
  • Office held by head of government: president of departmental council[37]
  • Described by source: New Encyclopedic Dictionary[38]
  • Official name: Nièvre[39]
  • List of monuments: Liste des monuments historiques de la Nièvre[40]
  • Category for people born here: Category:Births in Nièvre[41]
  • Category for people who died here: Category:Deaths in Nièvre[42]
  • Category for films shot at this location: Category:Films shot in Nièvre[43]
  • Category for people buried here: Q21934682[44]
  • Category of associated people: Category:People from Nièvre[45]

Why It Matters

Nièvre has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[46] Nièvre is known by 22 alternative names across languages and contexts.[47]

Related Entities

Achun Arleuf Authiou Bazoches Bernadette Soubirous Château-Chinon (Campagne) Château-Chinon (Ville) Clamecy Corbigny Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire Decize Fourchambault France La Charité-sur-Loire La Machine Luzy Magny-Cours Nevers

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . Populations légales 2017. wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . Populations légales 2018. wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . insee.fr. insee.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . Populations légales 2019. wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . Populations légales 2020. wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . Populations légales 2021. wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . Populations de référence 2022. wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . Populations de référence 2023. wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . Code officiel géographique. wikidata.org.
  38. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  39. [41] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  40. [42] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  41. [43] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  42. [44] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  43. [45] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [46] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [47] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 17w ago · Albgr03 · 2026-06-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Capital → Nevers
    Category for people buried here → Q21934682
    Country → France
    Population → {'amount': '+214303'}, {'amount': '+211747'}, {'amount': '+207182'} +7
    + 41 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/36652|batch #36652]]: Remove redundant P421, they are available at a higher administrative level"
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