Bourgneuf-en-Retz is a village and commune in the Loire-Atlantique département of north-western France. A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet, but smaller than a Town or City. The following is a list of the 221 communes of the Loire-Atlantique département, in France. Loire-Atlantique (formerly Loire-Inférieure) is a department on the west coast of France named after the Loire River and the Atlantic In the context of the political and geographic organization of France and many of its former colonies a department (département depaʁtǝmɑ̃ is an Administrative division This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics.