Janaillat

Janaillat
Commune
Coat of arms
Location of Janaillat
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Coordinates: 46°03′27″N 1°44′47″E / 46.0575°N 1.7464°E / 46.0575; 1.7464
Country	France
Region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Creuse
Arrondissement	Guéret
Canton	Ahun
Intercommunality	CC Creuse Sud Ouest
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Raymond Dubreuil[1]
Area 1	28.29 km2 (10.92 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]	318
• Density	11/km2 (29/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	23099 /23250
Elevation	410–631 m (1,345–2,070 ft) (avg. 600 m or 2,000 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Janaillat (French pronunciation: [ʒanaja]; Occitan: Janalhac) is a commune in the Creuse department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in central France.

A farming area comprising the village and several small hamlets situated by the banks of the small Leyrenne river, some 16 miles (26 km) southwest of Guéret at the junction of the D10, D50 and the D61 roads.

• The church of St. Saturnine, dating from the nineteenth century.
• The ruins of a feudal castle at the hamlet of Soliers.
• A fifteenth-century chapel.

Janaillat is twinned with: Ennery, Moselle, France, since 1994

• The poet François Tristan l'Hermite was born here at the castle in 1601.

• Communes of the Creuse department

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