Cenon

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Cenon

Total population

26,778

Elevation3 m

Land area5.52 km²

Coordinates44.86°, -0.52°

Demographic figures from INSEE. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

City facts

Facts from Wikidata (CC0).

Overview

Cenon is a commune in the department of Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, southwestern France.

History & geography

Excerpted from the corresponding Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA).

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

R

René Turlay

French nuclear physicist

H

Hervé Loste

French politician (1926-1994)

Dominique Pifarély

French musician

Henri Nassiet

actor (1895–1977)

Jacques Dufilho

French actor (1914–2005)

Fanélie Carrey-Conte

French deputy

J

Jean-Baptiste Lafond

French rugby union player

H

Henri Grenet

French politician (1908–1995)

C

Catherine Diverrès

French choreographer

F

Frédéric Vidalenc

French musician

Gérard Alle

French writer

Isabelle Dethan

French caricaturist and comics writer

J

Jean-Claude Dubouil

French footballer (b.1948)

J

Jean-Pierre Torrell

French theologian

Louis Émié

French journalist and poet (1900–1967)

Matthieu Cornette

French chess player

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Nouvelle-Aquitaine

• Artigues-près-Bordeaux
  1.5 mi away · pop. 8,623
• Bassens
  3.2 mi away · pop. 7,842
• Sainte-Eulalie
  4.3 mi away · pop. 4,925
• Lignan-de-Bordeaux
  6.2 mi away · pop. 836
• Sallebœuf
  6.3 mi away · pop. 2,728
• Camblanes-et-Meynac
  6.3 mi away · pop. 3,093
• Saint-Sulpice-et-Cameyrac
  7.5 mi away · pop. 4,879
• Isle-Saint-Georges
  9.2 mi away · pop. 520
• Le Pian-Médoc
  9.9 mi away · pop. 7,105
• Saint-Aubin-de-Médoc
  10.6 mi away · pop. 7,583
• Baron
  10.6 mi away · pop. 1,193
• La Lande-de-Fronsac
  11 mi away · pop. 2,659

Browse all places in Nouvelle-Aquitaine →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Recently spotted species

Creeping Woodsorrel

Oxalis corniculata

Seen 2026-09-16

Idaea filicata

Idaea filicata

Seen 2026-09-15

Spotted Sulphur

Emmelia trabealis

Seen 2026-09-15

Bull Thistle

Cirsium vulgare

Seen 2026-09-15

Common Blue

Polyommatus icarus

Seen 2026-09-15

Pea Blue

Lampides boeticus

Seen 2026-09-15

Common Geranium-bronze

Cacyreus marshalli

Seen 2026-09-15

Gorse Shield Bug

Piezodorus lituratus

Seen 2026-09-15

Vestal

Rhodometra sacraria

Seen 2026-09-15

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).

Official Identifiers