| Ancenis | |
| Image Coat Of Arms: | BlasonAncenis.svg |
| Arrondissement: | Châteaubriant-Ancenis |
| Canton: | Ancenis-Saint-Géréon |
| Insee: | 44003 |
| Postal Code: | 44150 |
| Commune: | Ancenis-Saint-Géréon |
| Coordinates: | 47.3733°N -1.2936°W |
| Elevation M: | 13 |
| Elevation Min M: | 5 |
| Elevation Max M: | 41 |
| Area Km2: | 20.07 |
| Population: | 7656 |
| Population Date: | 2016 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Ancenis (in French pronounced as /ɑ̃s.ni/;) is a former commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Ancenis-Saint-Géréon.[2] It is a former sub-prefecture of the department, and was the seat of the former arrondissement of Ancenis.
It played a great historical role as a key location on the road to Nantes (23 miles to the southwest), the historical capital of Brittany. It was named "the key of Brittany" [3] and the door of Brittany.
The soccer team is called RCA 44, (Racing Club D'Ancenis 44)
Ancenis is twinned with both the town of Kirkham in Lancashire, UK and Bad Brückenau, a spa town in Bad Kissingen district, northern Bavaria which is situated in the Rhön Mountains in Germany.