Margaux

Margaux
Margaux
Part of Margaux-Cantenac
	Coat of arms
	Location of Margaux
	Margaux Margaux
	Coordinates: 45°02′31″N 0°40′32″W / 45.0419°N 0.6756°W
Country	France
Region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Gironde
Arrondissement	Lesparre-Médoc
Canton	Le Sud-Médoc
Commune	Margaux-Cantenac
Area 1	7.36 km2 (2.84 sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal code	33460
Elevation	1–23 m (3.3–75.5 ft) ; (avg. 16 m or 52 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Margaux is a former commune in the Gironde department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Margaux-Cantenac.^[1]

The village is in the Haut Médoc wine making region on the left bank of the Garonne estuary. It is northwest of the city of Bordeaux.

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