Balbins
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The Balbins Cemetery oil painting in 1888 by Johan Barthold Jongkind
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Location within Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region
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| Coordinates: 45°23′40″N 5°13′00″E / 45.3944°N 5.2167°ECoordinates: 45°23′40″N 5°13′00″E / 45.3944°N 5.2167°E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes |
| Department | Isère |
| Arrondissement | Vienne |
| Canton | Bièvre |
| Intercommunality | Bièvre-Liers |
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| • Mayor (2008–2020) | Anne-Marie Amice |
| Area1 | 7.26 km2 (2.80 sq mi) |
| Population (2010)2 | 386 |
| • Density | 53/km2 (140/sq mi) |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 38025 /38260 |
| Elevation | 347–530 m (1,138–1,739 ft) (avg. 150 m or 490 ft) |
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1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once. |
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1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
Balbins is a commune in the Isère department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of south-eastern France.
The inhabitants of the commune are known as Balbinois or Balbinoises.
Balbins is located some 40 km north-west of Grenoble just west of La Côte-Saint-André. Access to the commune is by the D73 from La Côte-Saint-André which passes through the commune just south of the village and continues west to Penol. The D518A passes through the east of the commune linking the D71 south of La Côte-Saint-André to the D518 north-west of La Côte-Saint-André. The commune is almost entirely farmland with urban area of the village merging with that of Ornacieux.
List of Successive Mayors
(Not all data is known)
In 2010 the commune had 386 inhabitants. The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known from the population censuses conducted in the commune since 1793. From the 21st century, a census of communes with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants is held every five years, unlike larger communes that have a sample survey every year.
Sources : Ldh/EHESS/Cassini until 1962, INSEE database from 1968 (population without double counting and municipal population from 2006)
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