Carquefou

Commune in Pays de la Loire, France

Carquefou Carqefou (Gallo) Kerc'hfaou (Breton)
Commune

Coat of arms
Location of Carquefou
(2020–2026)		Véronique Dubettier-Grenier^[1]
Area ¹	43.42 km² (16.76 sq mi)
Population (2021)^[2]	20,510
• Density	470/km² (1,200/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	44026 /44470
Elevation	1–76 m (3.3–249.3 ft)
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Carquefou (French pronunciation: [kaʁkəfu] ^ⓘ; Gallo: Carqefou, Breton: Kerc'hfaou) is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique, department in the region Pays de la Loire, in western France.

Population

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Source: EHESS^[3] and INSEE (1968-2017)^[4]

Economy

The headquarters of the geophysical research company Sercel is located in Carquefou^[5]^[6]

Sport

In 2008, the local football team Union Sportive Jeanne d'Arc Carquefou reached the quarter-finals of the French Cup after a win over the 8-times national champions Olympique de Marseille on March 19, putting the town in the national headlines.

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Carquefou, EHESS (in French).
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
^ What is geophysics
^ Fiche d'identité