Chaillé-sous-les-Ormeaux () is a former commune in the
Vendée
Vendée () is a department in the Pays de la Loire region in Western France, on the Atlantic coast. In 2019, it had a population of 685,442.department in the
Pays de la Loire
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region
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in western
France
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. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of
Rives-de-l'Yon
Rives de l'Yon (, literally ''Banks of the Yon'') is a commune in the department of Vendée, western France. The municipality was established on 1 January 2016 by merger of the former communes of Saint-Florent-des-Bois and Chaillé-sous-les-Orm ...
The village lies above the right bank of the river
Yon
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* Yon (name), including a list of people with the name
* Yon (river), France
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, which forms most of the commune's eastern border.