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Velaines

commune in Meuse, France
Place Commune of France Q539475

Facts

18 properties

Identity

Instance of
commune of France
Official name
Velaines[26]

Location

Country
France[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 48.703°, 5.302°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Meuse, arrondissement of Bar-le-Duc[1][2]
Shares border with
Willeroncourt, Ligny-en-Barrois, Nançois-sur-Ornain, Nant-le-Grand, Tronville-en-Barrois[4][5][6][7][8]

Population and size

Area
+10.71[33]
Elevation above sea level
285 (213–364, n=3)[30][31][32]
Female population
+501[28]
Male population
+449[29]
Population
874 (743–1.1k, n=17)[10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23]

Codes

Postal code
55500[9]
More facts +6
Associated electoral district
canton of Ancerville[35]
Fax number
+33-3-29-78-82-46[34]
List of monuments
Liste der Monuments historiques in Velaines[27]
Located in the statistical territorial entity
Aire d'attraction de Bar-le-Duc, Unité urbaine de Ligny-en-Barrois[36][37]
Office held by the head of government
Mayor of Velaines[24]
Phone number
+33-3-29-78-82-43[25]
🏷️ Also known as
en Velaines fa ولینس nl Velaines (Frankrijk) uk Велен zh 沃莱讷
🔖 Identifiers · 15
VIAF cluster ID
241488523
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Velaines mairie.jpg ↗
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
15265208z
EHESS ID of a French commune
39198
Email address
mailto:mairie.velaines.55@orange.fr, mailto:mairie@velaines.fr
FactGrid item ID
St. Jakob
Freebase ID
/m/03qdvgv
GeoNames ID
6437247
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 6437247 BnF data 2970224 edition 2026-10-01 · fr-lo ↗
Insee municipality code
55543
KnowWhereGraph entity ID
administrativeRegion.FRA.6.8.1.5.19_1
National Address Base ID
1586cb6c-3dd1-4677-9c7f-30afec25f799
OpenStreetMap relation ID
2994233
Show all 15 identifiers +3
OpenWeatherMap city ID
6437247
Topic's main category
Category:Velaines (Meuse)
Who's on First ID
1125867631
📚 Sources · 1
  • GeoNames as of 2026-09-26 · 1 statement · CC BY 4.0 CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.

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Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
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Credit
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🔗 Connections
Shares border with 5
Ligny-en-Barrois, Nançois-sur-Ornain, Tronville-en-Barrois, Willeroncourt, Nant-le-Grand
← Shares border with 5
Ligny-en-Barrois, Nançois-sur-Ornain, Tronville-en-Barrois, Willeroncourt, Nant-le-Grand
Located in the administrative territorial entity 2
Meuse, arrondissement of Bar-le-Duc
Associated electoral district 1
canton of Ancerville
Country 1
France
FactGrid item ID 1
St. Jakob
Instance of 1
commune of France
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Altenwalde
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Direct Wikidata claims

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  9. [9] ↑ . dataset of postal codes in France. wikidata.org.
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  25. [25] ↑ . Annuaire de service-public.fr. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  26. [26] ↑ . Code officiel géographique. Retrieved . insee.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  27. [27] ↑ . 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] ↑ . répertoire géographique des communes. wxs-telechargement.ign.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  35. [35] ↑ . Code officiel géographique. insee.fr. Provenance: 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. 12d ago · MystBot bot · 2026-11-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    "Changed claim qualifiers: Population: 874, Add reason for preferred rank to population for 2023 (details)"
  2. 14w ago · William Avery Bot bot · 2026-08-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Meuse, arrondissement of Bar-le-Duc
    Topic's main category → Category:Velaines (Meuse)
    Coordinate location → 48.703°, 5.302°
    Country → France
    + 12 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Elevation above sea level, Changing http://web.archive.org/ URLs to https (×2). See requ…"
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