Saône-et-Loire
Saône-et-Loire (; Arpitan: ''Sona-et-Lêre'') is a department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in France. It is named after the rivers Saône and Loire, between which it lies, in the country's central-eastern part.
Saône-et-Loire is B ...
region
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of
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (; , sometimes abbreviated BFC; Arpitan: ''Borgogne-Franche-Comtât'') is a region in eastern France created by the 2014 territorial reform of French regions, from a merger of Burgundy and Franche-Comté. The new region ...
in eastern
France
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Bresse
Bresse () is a former French province. It is located in the regions of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Bourgogne-Franche-Comté of eastern France. The geographical term ''Bresse'' has two meanings: ''Bresse bourguignonne'' (or ''louhannaise''), whic ...
in the east of the department.
The Seille forms the commune's northwestern border. The
Sâne Morte
The Sâne Morte (, the dead Sâne) is a long river in the Ain and Saône-et-Loire ''départements'', eastern France. Its source is at Foissiat. It flows generally north-northwest. It is a right tributary of the Sâne Vive into which it flows at ...
forms most of the commune's southeastern border.
Population
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Communes of the Saône-et-Loire department
The following is a list of the 563 communes of the Saône-et-Loire department of France
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