Langon, Gironde

Langon
Langon
	Subprefecture and commune
	Langon and the Garonne
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	Langon Location within Nouvelle-Aquitaine region Langon
	Coordinates: 44°33′N 0°15′W / 44.55°N 0.25°W
Country	France
Region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Gironde
Arrondissement	Langon
Canton	Le Sud-Gironde
Intercommunality	Pays de Langon
Government
• Mayor (2014–2020)	Philippe Plagnol
Area1	13.71 km2 (5.29 sq mi)
Population (2008)2	7,409
• Density	540/km2 (1,400/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	33227 /33210
Elevation	0–73 m (0–240 ft) ; (avg. 23 m or 75 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Langon (French pronunciation: [lɑ̃ɡɔ̃]; Occitan: Lengon) is a commune in the Gironde department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. Langon serves as the seat of its district, canton and subprefecture. Its inhabitants are called Langonnais.

Geography

Langon is in the northern part of the department 48 km (30 mi) southeast of Bordeaux on the left bank of the Garonne river. It lies near the border between a wine-growing region (Premières côtes de Bordeaux) and the forest of Landes.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1793	3,267	—
1800	3,208	−1.8%
1806	3,222	+0.4%
1821	2,954	−8.3%
1831	3,566	+20.7%
1836	3,745	+5.0%
1841	3,986	+6.4%
1846	3,896	−2.3%
1851	3,953	+1.5%
1856	4,201	+6.3%
1861	4,114	−2.1%
1866	4,505	+9.5%
1872	4,647	+3.2%
1876	4,740	+2.0%
1881	4,704	−0.8%
1886	4,726	+0.5%
1891	4,733	+0.1%
1896	4,956	+4.7%
1901	4,816	−2.8%
1906	4,836	+0.4%
1911	4,900	+1.3%
1921	4,588	−6.4%
1926	4,731	+3.1%
1931	4,661	−1.5%
1936	4,786	+2.7%
1946	5,177	+8.2%
1954	5,231	+1.0%
1962	5,375	+2.8%
1968	5,356	−0.4%
1975	5,843	+9.1%
1982	5,836	−0.1%
1990	5,842	+0.1%
1999	6,168	+5.6%
2008	7,409	+20.1%

Notable people born in Langon

Louis Beaulieu (1840–1866), catholic priest, martyr in Korea
Thomas Boudat
Thomas Boudat
Caroline Delas
André Demptos
Louis Ducos du Hauron
Benjamin Fall
Martine Faure
Édouard Lafargue
Pierre de La Montagne
Pierre Lees-Melou
Raymond Oliver
Jean Sentuary

Transport

Traditionally it was a stop on the Bordeaux-Toulouse route; the city is now served by the Entre-Deux-Mers autoroute. (A62 Bordeaux-Toulouse).

- Itinéraire à Grand Gabarit

Langon is also a pivotal point in the Itinéraire à Grand Gabarit, the waterway and road route constructed to allow the transportation of the fuselage sections and wings of the Airbus A380 airliner to the final assembly point in Toulouse. These components are brought to Langon by barge, where they are transferred at a specially constructed dock to outsize road vehicles. These then proceed in convoy via an indirect southerly route to Toulouse.^[1]

- Rail

Langon has also a trainstation chère toi can go to Bordeaux or Agen. On school terms, there is also trains on mornings and evenings to Bordeaux, Agen and small towns and villages (Saint-Macaire, Podensac, Cadillac, ...).