Saint-Étienne
Saint-Étienne | |
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  Saint-Étienne Location within Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region  Saint-Étienne | |
| Coordinates: 45°26′05″N 4°23′25″E / 45.4347°N 4.3903°ECoordinates: 45°26′05″N 4°23′25″E / 45.4347°N 4.3903°E | |
| Kintra | Fraunce |
| Region | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes |
| Depairtment | Loire |
| Canton | Chief toun o 9 cantons |
| Intercommunality | Saint-Étienne Métropole |
| Govrenment | |
| • Mayor (syne Mairch 2008) | Maurice Vincent (PS) |
| Area 1 | 79.97 km2 (30.88 sq mi) |
| Population (2007 estimate)2 | 178,530 |
| • Rank | 16t in Fraunce |
| • Density | 2,200/km2 (5,800/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET (GMT +1)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 42218 /42000, 42100 |
| Elevation | 422–1,117 m (1,385–3,665 ft) (avg. 516 m or 1,693 ft) |
| Website | http://www.saint-etienne.fr/ |
| 1 French Laund Register data, that excludes lochs, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) an river estuaries. 2 Population withoot dooble coontin: residents o multiple communes (e.g., students an militar personnel) anerly coontit ance. | |
Saint-Étienne (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃t‿etjɛn]; Arpitan: Sant-Etiève; Scots: Saunt Stephen) is a ceety in eastren central Fraunce. It is locatit in the Massif Central, 60 km (37.28 mi) soothwast o Lyon in the Rhône-Alpes region, alang the trunk road that connects Toulouse wi Lyon. Saint-Étienne is the caipital o the Loire département an haes a population o approximately 178,500 in the ceety itsel expandin tae wer 317,000 in the metropolitan aurie (2007).
Internaitional relations
[eedit | eedit soorce]Saint-Étienne is twinned wi:
- Annaba, Algerie, syne 1981
- Banská Bystrica, Slovakie, syne 2006
- Ben Arous, Tunisie, syne 1994
- Coventry, United Kingdom, since 1955
- Des Moines, Unitit States, syne 1984
- Ferrara, Italy, syne 1960
- Fes, Morocco, syne 2006
- Geltendorf, Germany, since 1966
- Granby, Canadae, syne 1960
- Katowice, Poland, syne 1994
- Luhansk, Ukraine, syne 1959
- Nazareth Illit, Israel, syne 1974
- Oeiras, Portugal, syne 1995
- Patras, Greece, syne 1990
- Toamasina, Madagascar, syne 1967
- Warsaw, Poland, syne 1995
- Windsor, Canadae, syne 1963
- Wuppertal, Germany, syne 1960
- Xúzhōu, Cheenae, syne 1984
- Chandigarh, Indie, syne 2005
References
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