Toulouse

Toulouse
Toulouse; Tolosa
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	Motto: Per Tolosa totjorn mai.; (Occitan for "For Toulouse, always more")
	Toulouse
	Location athin Midi-Pyrénées region Toulouse
	Coordinates: 43°36′16″N 1°26′38″E / 43.6045°N 1.444°ECoordinates: 43°36′16″N 1°26′38″E / 43.6045°N 1.444°E
Kintra	Fraunce
Region	Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées
Depairtment	Haute-Garonne
Arrondissement	Toulouse
Intercommunality	Grand Toulouse
Govrenment
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Pierre Cohen (PS)
Aurie
• Urban (2010)	811.60 km2 (313.36 sq mi)
• Metro (2010)	5,381.49 km2 (2,077.80 sq mi)
• Land1	118.3 km2 (45.7 sq mi)
Population (Jan. 2012)2	461,190
• Rank	4t in Fraunce
• Urban (Jan. 2011)	892,115
• Metro (Jan. 2011)	1,250,251
INSEE/Postal code	31555 /
Wabsteid	http://www.toulouse.fr/
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population wioot double coontin: residents o multiple communes (e.g., students an militar personnel) anly coonted ance.

Toulouse (pronoonced [tuluz] ( listen) in staundart French an [tuˈluzə] ( listen) wi a Toulouse accent; Occitan: Tolosa, pronounced [tuˈluzɔ], primarily Tholoza) is a ceety in soothwast Fraunce on the banks o the River Garonne, 590 km (366 mi) away frae Paris an hauf-way atween the Atlantic Ocean an the Mediterranean Sea. Wi 1,250,251 inhabitants as of Januar 2011,^[3] the Toulouse metropolitan aurie is the fowert-lairgest in Fraunce, efter Paris (12 million), Lyon (1.8 million), an Marseille (1.7 million).

Toulouse is ane o the bases o the European aerospace industry, wi the heidquarters o Airbus, Galileo positionin seestem, the SPOT satellite seestem, an CNES's Toulouse Space Centre (CST), the lairgest space centre in Europe.^[4] Thales Alenia Space, Europe's lairgest satellite manufacturer, an Astrium Satellites, EADS's satellite seestem subsidiary, an aa hae a significant presence in Toulouse. Its warld renowned university is ane o the auldest in Europe (foondit in 1229) an, wi mair than 97,000 students, is wi Lille the third-lairgest university campus o Fraunce efter Paris an Lyon.^[5]

Toulouse wis the caipital o the umwhile province o Languedoc (provinces wur abolished durin the French Revolution). It is nou the Chef-lieu o the Midi-Pyrénées region, the lairgest region in metropolitan Fraunce. It is an' a' the Chef-lieu o the Haute-Garonne depairtment.