Talence, town, Gironde département, Nouvelle-Aquitaine région, southwestern France, a southern suburb of Bordeaux. It is a centre for jet aircraft production and has light industry and wine making. An extension of Bordeaux University (now Bordeaux University I), with housing for 30,000 students, was erected there in the 1960s and has since become a major educational and research centre. Pop. (1999) 37,210; (2014 est.) 41,182.