Les Pennes-Mirabeau

Les Pennes-Mirabeau
Commune
Coat of arms
Location of Les Pennes-Mirabeau
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Coordinates: 43°24′38″N 5°18′37″E / 43.4106°N 5.3103°E / 43.4106; 5.3103
Country	France
Region	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Department	Bouches-du-Rhône
Arrondissement	Aix-en-Provence
Canton	Gardanne
Intercommunality	Aix-Marseille-Provence
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Michel Amiel[1]
Area ^1	33.66 km^2 (13.00 sq mi)
Population  (2022)[2]	22,423
• Density	666.2/km^2 (1,725/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	13071 /13170
Elevation	56–287 m (184–942 ft) (avg. 100 m or 330 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Les Pennes-Mirabeau (French pronunciation: [le pɛn miʁabo]; Occitan: Lei Penas de Mirabèu) is a commune in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in southern France, located 13.5 km (8.4 mi) from Marseille. In May every year, a medieval festival attracts tens of thousands people.^[3]

Population

Historical population
Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 862 —     1800 908 +0.75% 1806 1,212 +4.93% 1821 1,316 +0.55% 1831 1,680 +2.47% 1836 1,626 −0.65% 1841 1,717 +1.10% 1846 1,939 +2.46% 1851 1,945 +0.06% 1856 1,935 −0.10% 1861 1,960 +0.26% 1866 2,026 +0.66% 1872 2,000 −0.22% 1876 2,015 +0.19% 1881 1,918 −0.98% 1886 1,971 +0.55% 1891 2,001 +0.30% 1896 1,992 −0.09%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 1,997 +0.05% 1906 2,117 +1.17% 1911 2,355 +2.15% 1921 2,578 +0.91% 1926 3,181 +4.29% 1931 4,270 +6.07% 1936 4,866 +2.65% 1946 5,601 +1.42% 1954 7,097 +3.00% 1962 7,615 +0.88% 1968 10,146 +4.90% 1975 14,839 +5.58% 1982 15,691 +0.80% 1990 18,599 +2.15% 1999 19,041 +0.26% 2007 20,238 +0.77% 2012 20,279 +0.04% 2017 21,046 +0.75%
Source: EHESS[4] and INSEE (1968-2017)[5]

Twin towns – sister cities

Les Pennes-Mirabeau is twinned with:

• Martuni (Khojavend), Nagorno-Karabakh:^[6] Les Pennes-Mirabeau and Martuni became sister cities on 11 June 2013.^[7]

References

1. "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
2. "Populations de référence 2022" (in French). National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 19 December 2024.
3. "Pennes-Mirabeau : 40 000 visiteurs attendus au festival médiéval". 11 May 2013.
4. Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Les Pennes-Mirabeau, EHESS (in French).
5. Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
6. "President of the Nagorno-Karabakh Repoublic (NKR) Bako Sahakyan received on Wednesday a delegation of the French Les Pennes-Mirabeau city headed by its mayor Michel Amiel". Archived from the original on 5 October 2016. Retrieved 28 May 2015.
7. "Les Pennes-Mirabeau and Martuni became sister cities". Archived from the original on 28 May 2015. Retrieved 28 May 2015.

See also

• Communes of the Bouches-du-Rhône department

External links

• Official website (in French)