Bègues

Bègues is a commune in the Allier department in central France.

Bègues
Commune
The church in Bègues
Coat of arms
Location of Bègues
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Coordinates: 46°07′42″N 3°09′24″E
Country	France
Region	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department	Allier
Arrondissement	Vichy
Canton	Gannat
Intercommunality	Saint-Pourçain Sioule Limagne
Government
• Mayor (2014–2020)	Alain Viguié
Area ^1	8.3 km^2 (3.2 sq mi)
Population  (2017-01-01)[1]	227
• Density	27/km^2 (71/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	03021 /03800
Elevation	290–520 m (950–1,710 ft) (avg. 525 m or 1,722 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Geography

• 
  Location of Bègues in the canton of Gannat (before March 2015).
• 
  Location of Bègues in the former Bassin de Gannat intercommunality.

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±%
1962	123	—
1968	150	+22.0%
1975	152	+1.3%
1982	196	+28.9%
1990	193	−1.5%
1999	202	+4.7%
2010	230	+13.9%
2015	227	−1.3%
Source: INSEE (1968–1999,[2] 2010 and 2015[3])

Administration

• 2008–2014: Georges Beaumet
• 2014–2020: Alain Viguié[4]

See also

• Communes of the Allier department

References

• INSEE commune file

1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
2. "2013 legal populations - Bègues". INSEE (in French). Retrieved 24 January 2016.
3. "2015 legal populations". INSEE (in French). Retrieved 29 December 2017.
4. "Liste nominative des communes de l'Allier (avec maire, arrondissement et canton)" [Nominative list of communes of Allier (with mayor, arrondissement and canton)] (PDF). Association of Mayors and Presidents of Communities of Allier (in French). 1 April 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 May 2015. Retrieved 13 May 2015.