Saint-Gobain, Aisne

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in French. (December 2008) Click [show] for important translation instructions.

View a machine-translated version of the French article.
Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at [[:fr:Saint-Gobain (Aisne)]]; see its history for attribution.
You may also add the template {{Translated|fr|Saint-Gobain (Aisne)}} to the talk page.
For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Commune in Hauts-de-France, France

Coat of arms

Location of Saint-Gobain

(2020–2026) Frédéric Mathieu^[1]Area

29.73 km² (11.48 sq mi)Population

(2021)^[2]

2,315 • Density78/km² (200/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal code

02680 /02410

Elevation53–207 m (174–679 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.

Saint-Gobain (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ ɡɔbɛ̃]) is a commune in the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.^[3]

In 1692, a glass factory was built at the village of Saint-Gobain, giving its name to the Saint-Gobain company.^[4]

Toponymy

The settlement, attested as Sanctus Gobanus in 1131, is named after the Irish monk Saint Gobain. Gobanus is a Latinized form of the Celtic personal name Gobanos, meaning 'smith'.^[5]

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1793	2,023	—
1800	2,013	−0.07%
1806	2,119	+0.86%
1821	2,339	+0.66%
1831	2,338	−0.00%
1836	2,378	+0.34%
1841	2,256	−1.05%
1846	2,186	−0.63%
1851	2,210	+0.22%
1856	2,374	+1.44%
1861	2,261	−0.97%
1866	2,190	−0.64%
1872	2,133	−0.44%
1876	2,193	+0.70%
1881	2,120	−0.67%
1886	2,219	+0.92%
1891	2,346	+1.12%
1896	2,147	−1.76%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1901	2,317	+1.54%
1906	2,268	−0.43%
1911	2,305	+0.32%
1921	1,586	−3.67%
1926	2,196	+6.72%
1931	1,976	−2.09%
1936	1,909	−0.69%
1946	2,217	+1.51%
1954	2,535	+1.69%
1962	2,994	+2.10%
1968	2,893	−0.57%
1975	2,657	−1.21%
1982	2,278	−2.17%
1990	2,321	+0.23%
1999	2,340	+0.09%
2007	2,348	+0.04%
2012	2,300	−0.41%
2017	2,282	−0.16%

Source: EHESS^[6] and INSEE (1968-2017)^[7]

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ Commune de Saint-Gobain (02680), INSEE
^ Compagnie de Saint-Gobain
^ Delamarre 2003, p. 182.
^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Saint-Gobain, EHESS (in French).
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE