{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2023}} {{Infobox French commune |name = Sancoins |commune status = [[Communes of France|Commune]] |image = Donjon Jouy Cher mar09.JPG |caption = Donjon of Louy castle |image flag = Flag of Sancoins.svg |image coat of arms = Blason de la ville de Sancoins (18).svg |arrondissement = Saint-Amand-Montrond |canton = Dun-sur-Auron |INSEE = 18242 |postal code = 18600 |mayor = Pierre Guiblin<ref>{{cite web|title=Répertoire national des élus: les maires|url=https://www.data.gouv.fr/en/datasets/r/2876a346-d50c-4911-934e-19ee07b0e503|website=data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises|date=9 August 2021|language=fr}}</ref> |term = 2020&ndash;2026 |intercommunality = [[Communauté de communes Les Trois Provinces|CC Les Trois Provinces]] |coordinates = {{coord|46.8328|2.9197|format=dms|display=inline,title}} |elevation m = |elevation min m = 192 |elevation max m = 233 |area km2 = 53.52 |population = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_total}} |population date = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_as_of}} |population footnotes = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_footnotes}} }}

'''Sancoins''' ({{IPA|fr|sɑ̃kwɛ̃}}) is a [[Communes of France|commune]] in the [[Cher (department)|Cher]] [[Departments of France|department]] in the [[Centre-Val de Loire]] [[Regions of France|region]] of [[France]].

==Geography== An area of [[farming]] and associated [[light industry]] comprising a small town and several hamlets situated by the banks of both the river Aubois and the [[canal de Berry]], about {{convert|26|mi|km}} southeast of [[Bourges]], at the junction of the D2076 with the D951 and D920 roads. The commune shares its southern border with that of the department of [[Allier]].

==Population== {{Historical populations |source = INSEE<ref name=pophist>[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/8643952?geo=COM-18242#tableau-POPREF_G1 Population municipale entre 1968 et 2023], INSEE</ref> |percentages = pagr |align = none |1968 |3502 |1975 |3556 |1982 |3667 |1990 |3634 |1999 |3562 |2007 |3177 |2012 |3266 |2017 |3080 |2023 |2951 }}

==Sights== * The church of St. Martin, rebuilt in the nineteenth century. * The fourteenth-century [[castle]] of Jouy, built by Pierre de Giac, chancellor of the Duke of Berry. * Several 15th and sixteenth-century buildings in the main town. * Javoulet lake. * The sixteenth-century ‘Joan of Arc’ tower.

==Personalities== *[[Oscar Méténier]] (1859–1913), writer, was born here. *[[Marguerite Audoux]] (1863–1937), writer, was born here.

==See also== *[[Communes of the Cher department]]

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==External links== {{commons category}} *[https://www.sancoins.fr/ Sancoins website] {{in lang|fr}}

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[[Category:Communes of Cher (department)]] [[Category:Bourbonnais]]