Orsans, Aude

Orsans
Commune
Location of Orsans
Orsans Location within France Orsans Location within Occitanie
Coordinates: 43°09′44″N 1°58′59″E
Country	France
Region	Occitania
Department	Aude
Arrondissement	Carcassonne
Canton	La Piège au Razès
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Jean Bonnafil
Area 1	9.94 km2 (3.84 sq mi)
Population  (2023)	87
• Density	8.8/km2 (23/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	11268 /11270
Elevation	304–400 m (997–1,312 ft) (avg. 355 m or 1,165 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Orsans is a commune in the Aude department in southern France.

Orsans is a small hamlet in the south of France, it used to be an important village with a school and many farming supplies, but now is just a small farming community. There is a medieval church and there used to be a large windmill on the hill, which is now gone; however, the storage house (which was also a cowshed for a while) remains, now converted into a house. There is a statue in the square which celebrates the ceased or injured form Orsans in World War I. A small stream runs through the hills that are used for farming. On top of the largest hill in or sans there is a large old water tower, that is surrounded by cows.

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	141	—
1975	93	−5.77%
1982	93	+0.00%
1990	76	−2.49%
1999	101	+3.21%
2007	90	−1.43%
2012	95	+1.09%
2017	104	+1.83%
2023	87	−2.93%
Source: INSEE

See also

• Communes of the Aude department