Saint-Florent-des-Bois | |
Image Coat Of Arms: | Blason ville fr Saint-Florent-des-Bois (Vendée).svg |
Arrondissement: | La Roche-sur-Yon |
Canton: | Mareuil-sur-Lay-Dissais |
Insee: | 85213 |
Postal Code: | 85310 |
Commune: | Rives-de-l'Yon |
Coordinates: | 46.5944°N -1.3147°W |
Elevation M: | 42 |
Elevation Min M: | 18 |
Elevation Max M: | 83 |
Area Km2: | 36.76 |
Population: | 2858 |
Population Date: | 2019 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Saint-Florent-des-Bois (in French pronounced as /sɛ̃ flɔʁɑ̃ de bwa/) is a former commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Rives-de-l'Yon.[2]
It is located on the periphery of La Roche-sur-Yon.
Saint-Florent-des-Bois is twinned with the village of Silkstone in South Yorkshire, England
The river Yon forms part of the commune's western border.