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Commune of Duras |
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| Location | |
| Coordinates | 44° 40' 37" North 00° 11' 01" East |
| Administration | |
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| Country | France |
| Region | Aquitaine |
| Department | Lot-et-Garonne |
| Arrondissement | Marmande |
| Canton | Canton of Duras (chef-lieu de canton) |
| Statistics | |
| Elevation | 28 m–128 m (avg. 100 m) |
| Land area¹ | 20.17 km² |
| Population² (1999) |
1214 |
| - Density | 60/km² (1999) |
| Miscellaneous | |
| INSEE/Postal code | 47086/ 47120 |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
| 2 Population sans doubles comptes: single count of residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel). | |
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Duras is a commune of the Lot-et-Garonne département, in France. The town is traversed by the Dropt river. The writer Marguerite Donnadieu (1914-1996) took the pseudonym "Marguerite Duras" in 1943, after this village, where her father's house was located.
