Brain-sur-Longuenée

Part of Erdre-en-Anjou in Pays de la Loire, France

47°35′08″N 0°45′39″W / 47.5856°N 0.7608°W / 47.5856; -0.7608CountryFranceRegionPays de la LoireDepartmentMaine-et-LoireArrondissementSegréCantonTiercéCommuneErdre-en-Anjou Area22.43 km² (8.66 sq mi)Population942 • Density42/km² (110/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)Postal codeElevation41–102 m (135–335 ft)
(avg. 78 m or 256 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Brain-sur-Longuenée (French pronunciation: [bʁɛ̃ syʁ lɔ̃ɡne] ^ⓘ) is a former commune in the Maine-et-Loire department in western France. On 28 December 2015, it was merged into the new commune Erdre-en-Anjou.^[2]

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% 1793 928 —     1800 843 −9.2% 1806 1,002 +18.9% 1821 1,010 +0.8% 1831 1,068 +5.7% 1836 1,053 −1.4% 1841 1,054 +0.1% 1846 1,064 +0.9% 1851 1,010 −5.1% 1856 1,037 +2.7% 1861 1,063 +2.5% 1866 1,101 +3.6% 1872 1,037 −5.8% 1876 1,027 −1.0% 1881 1,043 +1.6% 1886 1,078 +3.4% 1891 978 −9.3% 1896 927 −5.2%

Year Pop. ±% 1901 866 −6.6% 1906 853 −1.5% 1911 851 −0.2% 1921 774 −9.0% 1926 750 −3.1% 1931 723 −3.6% 1936 675 −6.6% 1946 644 −4.6% 1954 653 +1.4% 1962 602 −7.8% 1968 568 −5.6% 1975 513 −9.7% 1982 574 +11.9% 1990 669 +16.6% 1999 769 +14.9% 2006 927 +20.5% 2009 978 +5.5%

• Communes of the Maine-et-Loire department