Challans

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Commune in Pays de la Loire, France

Coat of arms

Location of Challans

(2020–2026) Rémi Pascreau^[1]Area

64.84 km² (25.03 sq mi)Population

(2021)^[2]

22,494 • Density350/km² (900/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal code

85047 /85300

Elevation1–64 m (3.3–210.0 ft)
(avg. 11 m or 36 ft)Websitechallans.fr¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Challans (French pronunciation: [ʃalɑ̃]) is a commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France. Challans station has rail connections to Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie and Nantes.

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1793	2,500	—
1800	2,783	+1.54%
1806	2,928	+0.85%
1821	3,307	+0.81%
1831	3,288	−0.06%
1836	3,640	+2.05%
1841	3,832	+1.03%
1846	4,153	+1.62%
1851	4,135	−0.09%
1856	4,167	+0.15%
1861	4,178	+0.05%
1866	4,486	+1.43%
1872	4,631	+0.53%
1876	4,782	+0.81%
1881	4,917	+0.56%
1886	5,172	+1.02%
1891	5,274	+0.39%
1896	5,453	+0.67%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1901	5,508	+0.20%
1906	5,463	−0.16%
1911	5,877	+1.47%
1921	5,407	−0.83%
1926	5,609	+0.74%
1931	5,469	−0.50%
1936	5,704	+0.84%
1946	5,643	−0.11%
1954	5,828	+0.40%
1962	6,962	+2.25%
1968	8,558	+3.50%
1975	11,794	+4.69%
1982	12,845	+1.23%
1990	14,203	+1.26%
1999	16,132	+1.43%
2007	18,035	+1.40%
2012	19,107	+1.16%
2017	20,622	+1.54%

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

Notable people

Pauline de Lézardière, born in Challans, 25 March 1754, died Proustière Castle, Poiroux, 8 February 1835. Historian.
Constance Picaud, born in Challans, 5 July 1998. Footballer for France.

Twin towns — sister cities

Challans is twinned with:

Saronno, Italy (2004)

References

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