Mazières

Part of Terres-de-Haute-Charente in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

45°50′13″N 0°34′17″E / 45.8369°N 0.5714°E / 45.8369; 0.5714CountryFranceRegionNouvelle-AquitaineDepartmentCharenteArrondissementConfolensCantonCharente-BonnieureCommuneTerres-de-Haute-Charente Area5.87 km² (2.27 sq mi)Population104 • Density18/km² (46/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)Postal codeElevation145–236 m (476–774 ft)
(avg. 200 m or 660 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Mazières (French pronunciation: [mazjɛʁ]) is a former commune in the Charente department in southwestern France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Terres-de-Haute-Charente.^[2]

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% 1793 314 —     1800 314 +0.0% 1806 378 +20.4% 1821 301 −20.4% 1831 358 +18.9% 1841 345 −3.6% 1846 335 −2.9% 1851 322 −3.9% 1856 293 −9.0% 1861 316 +7.8% 1866 302 −4.4% 1872 300 −0.7% 1876 300 +0.0% 1881 301 +0.3% 1886 302 +0.3% 1891 319 +5.6% 1896 297 −6.9%

Year Pop. ±% 1901 282 −5.1% 1906 279 −1.1% 1911 295 +5.7% 1921 255 −13.6% 1926 232 −9.0% 1931 221 −4.7% 1936 214 −3.2% 1946 180 −15.9% 1954 183 +1.7% 1962 190 +3.8% 1968 179 −5.8% 1975 140 −21.8% 1982 126 −10.0% 1990 88 −30.2% 1999 93 +5.7% 2008 101 +8.6%

• Communes of the Charente department