Geneston

Commune in Pays de la Loire, France

Geneston Jeneston/Jnéton (Gallo) Banaleg-ar-Gevred (Breton)
Commune

Coat of arms
Location of Geneston
(2020–2026)		Karine Paviza^[1]
Area ¹	8.04 km² (3.10 sq mi)
Population (2021)^[2]	3,697
• Density	460/km² (1,200/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	44223 /44140
Elevation	14–39 m (46–128 ft)
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Geneston (French pronunciation: [ʒənɛtɔ̃]; Gallo: Jeneston or Jnéton, Breton: Banaleg-ar-Gevred) is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France.

Population

The commune was created in 1954 from part of the commune of Montbert.^[3]

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1954	719	—
1962	821	+1.67%
1968	952	+2.50%
1975	1,252	+3.99%
1982	1,595	+3.52%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1990	1,958	+2.60%
1999	2,217	+1.39%
2007	3,380	+5.41%
2012	3,592	+1.22%
2017	3,641	+0.27%

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

Twin towns - Sister cities

Geneston is twinned with:

Covelo, Galicia, Spain^[5]

Personalities

Philibert Delorme (1510–1570), architect
Rogatien Martin (1849–1912), monk in the Marquesas Islands.
Jean-Baptiste Legeay (1897–1943), active in the Resistance during World War II

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ ^a ^b Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Geneston, EHESS (in French).
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
^ "Histoire" (in French). Commune of Geneston. Retrieved 14 November 2023.