Ambazac

Commune in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

Coat of arms

Location of Ambazac

(2022–2026) Peggy Bariat^[1]Area

57.83 km² (22.33 sq mi)Population

(2021)^[2]

5,558 • Density96/km² (250/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal code

87002 /87240

Elevation243–666 m (797–2,185 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Ambazac (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃bazak]; Occitan: Embasac) is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in western France.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	3,767	—
1975	3,929	+0.60%
1982	4,657	+2.46%
1990	4,889	+0.61%
1999	4,836	−0.12%
2007	5,254	+1.04%
2012	5,604	+1.30%
2017	5,667	+0.22%
Source: INSEE^[3]

Personalities

Maurice Boitel, painter artist, he painted in Ambazac between 1947 et 1996
Raymond Desèze, barrister and member of the Académie française
Canon Landon, épigraphist and Latinist, priest of Ambazac
Catherine Cesarsky, astrophysicist
Albert Besson, bacteriologist

Partner Communities

Eckental (Germany), since 1987
Soufflenheim (Alsace)

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 4 May 2022.
^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE