Sérignan-du-Comtat | |
Commune Status: | Commune |
Image Coat Of Arms: | Blason ville fr Sérignan-du-Comtat (Vaucluse).svg |
Arrondissement: | Carpentras |
Canton: | Bollène |
Insee: | 84127 |
Postal Code: | 84830 |
Demonym: | Sérignanais |
Mayor: | Julien Merle[1] |
Term: | 2020 - 2026 |
Intercommunality: | CC Aygues Ouvèze en Provence |
Coordinates: | 44.19°N 4.8442°W |
Elevation M: | 80 |
Elevation Min M: | 53 |
Elevation Max M: | 240 |
Area Km2: | 19.82 |
Sérignan-du-Comtat (in French pronounced as /seʁiɲɑ̃ dy kɔ̃ta/; Occitan (post 1500);: Serinhan dau Comtat) is a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in Southeastern France. Until 1944, it was known simply as Sérignan.[2] In 2020, it had a population of 2,856.
On 1 January 2017, together with a number of neighbouring communes, it was transferred from the arrondissement of Avignon to the arrondissement of Carpentras.[2]
The entomologist Jean-Henri Fabre (1823–1915) died in Sérignan-du-Comtat.