Revest-les-Roches

Commune in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

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Commune in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

Coat of arms

Location of Revest-les-Roches

(2020–2026) Yves Mehr^[1]Area

8.61 km² (3.32 sq mi)Population

(2021)^[2]

233 • Density27/km² (70/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal code

06100 /06830

Elevation138–1,524 m (453–5,000 ft)
(avg. 853 m or 2,799 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Revest-les-Roches (French pronunciation: [ʁəvɛst le ʁɔʃ]; Occitan: So Revest dei Ròcas) is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in southeastern France.

Its inhabitants are called Revestois.

Toponymy

The name of the village, as it was first recorded in 1007 (Revestis), comes from the Occitan So Revèst, a variant of revèrs, and means a site exposed to the north.^[3]

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	25	—
1975	25	+0.00%
1982	49	+10.09%
1990	122	+12.08%
1999	162	+3.20%
2009	208	+2.53%
2014	224	+1.49%
2020	229	+0.37%
Source: INSEE^[4]

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.
^ Ernest Nègre, Toponymie générale de la France : étymologie de 35 000 noms de lieux, vol. 2 : Formations non-romanes; formations dialectales, Geneva, Librairie Droz, coll. « Publications romanes et françaises » (no 194), 1996, 676 p. (ISBN 978-2-600-00133-5), § 22391, p 1199
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE