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{{Infobox French commune
|name                   = Portbail
|image                  = Vue de Portbail, Manche.jpg
|caption                = View of Portbail
|image coat of arms     = Blason ville fr le Mesnilbus (Manche).svg
|arrondissement         = Cherbourg
|canton                 = Les Pieux
|INSEE                  = 50412
|postal code            = 50580
|commune                = Port-Bail-sur-Mer
|coordinates            = {{coord|49.3361|-1.6947|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
|elevation m            = 10
|elevation min m        = 2
|elevation max m        = 90
|area km2               = 19.56
|population             = 1491
|population date        = 2019
|population footnotes   = <ref name=pop2019>[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/fichier/6011070/ensemble.pdf Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2019], [[Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques|INSEE]]</ref>
|demonym                = Portbaillais
|website                = [http://www.portbail.fr/ www.portbail.fr]
}}
'''Portbail''' ({{IPA|fr|pɔʁbaj}}; sometimes spelled '''Port-Bail''') is a former [[Communes of France|commune]] in the [[Manche]] [[Departments of France|department]] in north-western [[France]]. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune [[Port-Bail-sur-Mer]].<ref>[http://www.manche.gouv.fr/content/download/39236/278481/file/RAA%20SP%2094.pdf Arrêté préfectoral] 20 December 2018, p. 3 {{in lang|fr}}</ref>
==Heraldry==
[[File:Bridge and church, Port-Bail (France).JPG|thumb|left|270 px| « Thirteen arches bridge»]]
The arms of Portbail are [[blazon]]ed :<br />''Azure, a chevron abased, between in fess 3 mullets Or and a lancehead argent.''
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==Demography==
{{Historical populations
|align=none
|1962| 1431
|1968| 1499
|1975| 1591
|1982| 1707
|1990| 1654
|1999| 1675
|2019| 1491
|source=EHESS<ref>{{Cassini-Ehess|27651|Portbail}}</ref> and INSEE<ref name="pop2019" />
}}
==See also==
*[[Communes of the Manche department]]
==References==
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[[Category:Former communes of Manche]]
[[Category:Populated coastal places in France]]
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