Saint-Nazaire topographic map

Name: Saint-Nazaire topographic map, elevation, terrain.

Location: Saint-Nazaire, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, Metropolitan France, 44600, France (47.23320 -2.31066 47.32059 -2.18003)

Average elevation: 6 m

Minimum elevation: -5 m

Maximum elevation: 46 m

According to INSEE, Saint-Nazaire is the commune-center of an urban unit (commonly: agglomeration) which counted 186,760 inhabitants in 2018, gathering 17 communes of the Loire estuary. This unit is the urban center of the urban area of Saint-Nazaire (24 communes), which had 213,675 inhabitants in 2018 and extending over Brière and almost all of the Guérande peninsula. The eastern part of the town is on the alluvial terrain between the Brière and the Loire estuary. The western part, more extensive, corresponds to the extension of the hillside of Guérande: the relief is hilly and of higher altitude, where one finds a granite and metamorphic base. Geologically, Saint-Nazaire is located in the Armorican massif.

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