Moncoutant | |
Arrondissement: | Bressuire |
Canton: | Cerizay |
Insee: | 79179 |
Postal Code: | 79320 |
Commune: | Moncoutant-sur-Sèvre |
Coordinates: | 46.7244°N -0.5875°W |
Elevation M: | 180 |
Elevation Min M: | 153 |
Elevation Max M: | 226 |
Area Km2: | 26.32 |
Population: | 3157 |
Population Date: | 2019 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Moncoutant (in French pronounced as /mɔ̃kutɑ̃/) is a former commune in the Deux-Sèvres department in western France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Moncoutant-sur-Sèvre.[2]
Moncoutant is located in a bocage area in northern Deux-Sèvres, on the Sèvre Nantaise, 50 km north of Niort and 15 km south of Bressuire.
Moncoutant is a mainly agricultural town. However, it also has numerous shops and a few industries. Since 2001, it has also become a tourist center, thanks to the opening of the fishing holiday center