DIGOIN, a town of east-central France, in the department of SaOne-et-Loire, on the right bank of the Loire, 55 m. W.N.W. of Macon on the Paris-Lyon railway. Pop. (1931) 5,918. It is situated at the meeting places of the Loire, the Lateral canal of the I Loire and the Canal du Centre, which here crosses the Loire by a fine aqueduct. The town carries on considerable manufactures of faience, pottery and porcelain. The port on the Canal du Centre trades in timber, sand, iron, coal and stone.