Tarnos

Tarnos (French pronunciation: [taʁnɔs] ^ⓘ; Basque: Tarnose; Occitan: Tarnòs) is a commune in the Landes department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France.^[3]

Tarnos
Commune
Location of Tarnos
Tarnos Show map of France Tarnos Show map of Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Coordinates: 43°32′28″N 1°27′36″W / 43.5411°N 1.46°W / 43.5411; -1.46
Country	France
Region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Landes
Arrondissement	Dax
Canton	Seignanx
Intercommunality	Seignanx
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Jean-Marc Lespade^[1]
Area ^1	26.26 km^2 (10.14 sq mi)
Population  (2021)^[2]	12,920
• Density	490/km^2 (1,300/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	40312 /40220
Elevation	0–53 m (0–174 ft) (avg. 44 m or 144 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Geography

Tarnos is in the far southwest corner of the department, 5 km north of Bayonne.

Population

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 1,315 —     1800 1,327 +0.13% 1806 1,555 +2.68% 1821 2,002 +1.70% 1831 2,324 +1.50% 1836 2,514 +1.58% 1841 2,651 +1.07% 1846 2,760 +0.81% 1851 2,937 +1.25% 1856 3,112 +1.16% 1861 1,657 −11.84% 1866 1,738 +0.96% 1872 1,788 +0.47% 1876 1,739 −0.69% 1881 1,796 +0.65% 1886 2,530 +7.09% 1891 2,645 +0.89% 1896 3,071 +3.03%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 3,617 +3.33% 1906 3,630 +0.07% 1911 3,774 +0.78% 1921 3,902 +0.33% 1926 4,087 +0.93% 1931 4,250 +0.79% 1936 4,012 −1.15% 1946 3,911 −0.25% 1954 4,255 +1.06% 1962 4,813 +1.55% 1968 5,054 +0.82% 1975 6,959 +4.68% 1982 8,219 +2.41% 1990 9,099 +1.28% 1999 10,076 +1.14% 2007 11,154 +1.28% 2012 12,423 +2.18% 2017 12,264 −0.26%
Source: EHESS^[4] and INSEE (1968-2017)^[5]

See also

• Communes of the Landes department

References

1. "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
2. "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
3. INSEE commune file
4. Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Tarnos, EHESS (in French).
5. Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE

 

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tarnos.