Orne

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Orne
Coat of Arms of Orne
Coat of arms of the Orne department
Location
Location of Orne in France
Administration
Department number: 61
Region: Basse-Normandie
Prefecture: Alençon
Subprefectures: Argentan
Mortagne-au-Perche
Arrondissements: 3
Cantons: 40
Communes: 505
President of the General Council: Gérard Burel
Statistics
Population Ranked 73rd
 -1999 292,337
Population density: 48/km²
Land area¹: 6103 km²
¹ French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, and lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km².
France

Orne is a department in the northwest of France named after the Orne River.

Contents

Orne is one of the original 83 department created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790. It was created from parts of the former provinces of Normandy and Perche.

Orne is in the current region of Basse-Normandie and is surrounded by the departments of Eure, Eure-et-Loir, Sarthe, Mayenne, and Calvados; it is the only department of Basse Normandie and Haute Normandie to be landlocked.

The inhabitants of the department are called Ornais.

Camembert, the village where Camembert cheese was first made, is located in Orne.


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