Portbail

Part of Port-Bail-sur-Mer in Normandy, France

Coat of arms

Location of Portbail

49°20′10″N 1°41′41″W / 49.3361°N 1.6947°W / 49.3361; -1.6947CountryFranceRegionNormandyDepartmentMancheArrondissementCherbourgCantonLes PieuxCommunePort-Bail-sur-Mer Area

19.56 km² (7.55 sq mi)Population

(2019)^[1]

1,491 • Density76/km² (200/sq mi)DemonymPortbaillaisTime zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)Postal code

50580

Elevation2–90 m (6.6–295.3 ft)
(avg. 10 m or 33 ft)Websitewww.portbail.fr¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Portbail (French pronunciation: [pɔʁbaj]; sometimes spelled Port-Bail) is a former commune in the Manche department in north-western France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Port-Bail-sur-Mer.^[2]

Heraldry

The arms of Portbail are blazoned :
Azure, a chevron abased, between in fess 3 mullets Or and a lancehead argent.

Demography

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1962	1,431	—
1968	1,499	+4.8%
1975	1,591	+6.1%
1982	1,707	+7.3%
1990	1,654	−3.1%
1999	1,675	+1.3%
2019	1,491	−11.0%
Source: EHESS^[3] and INSEE^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2019, INSEE
^ Arrêté préfectoral 20 December 2018, p. 3 (in French)
^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Portbail, EHESS (in French).