Saint-Étienne

Saint-Étienne
Saint-Étienne
	Coat airms
	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

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

INSEE commune file

Notes

Freemit airtins

Ceety cooncil wabsteid
Tourist board offeecial wabsteid Archived 2008-12-20 at the Wayback Machine

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Saint-Étienne
Coat airms
Saint-Étienne Location within Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region Saint-Étienne
Coordinates: 45°26′05″N 4°23′25″E / 45.4347°N 4.3903°E / 45.4347; 4.3903Coordinates: 45°26′05″N 4°23′25″E / 45.4347°N 4.3903°E / 45.4347; 4.3903
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.