Le Havre

Commune o Le Havre
Location
Le Havre
Time zone	CET (UTC +1)
Administration
Kintra	Fraunce
Region	Upper Normandy
Depairtment	Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement	Rouen
Intercommunality	CODAH
Mayor	Edouard Phillippe (UMP) (2010 - 2014)
Statistics
Population2	179,751  (2007)
- Ranking	12t in Fraunce
Urban spread
Urban aurie	182.45 km2 (70.44 sq mi) (2006)
- Population	246,195 (2006)
Metro aurie	615.39 km2 (237.60 sq mi) (2006)
- Population	291,765 (2006)
Wabsteid	www.ville-lehavre.fr
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) an river estuaries.
2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents o multiple communes (e.g., students an military personnel) anerlie coontit ance.

Le Havre, the Ceety Rebuilt bi Auguste Perret *
UNESCO Warld Heritage Steid
Kintra	Fraunce
Type	Cultural
Criteria	ii, iv
Reference	1181
Region **	Europe an North Americae
Inscription history
Inscription	2005 (29th Session)
* Name as inscribed on World Heritage List ** Region as classified by UNESCO

Le Havre (French pronunciation: [lə ɑvʁ]) is a ceety in the Seine-Maritime depairtment o the Upper Normandy region in Fraunce. It is situatit in north-wastren Fraunce, on the richt bank o the mooth o the river Seine on the Inglis Channel. Le Havre is the maist populous commune in the Haute-Normandie region, although the total population o the greater Le Havre conurbation is smawer than that o Rouen. It is the seicont lairgest subprefectur in Fraunce (efter Reims). Its port is the seicont busiest in Fraunce (efter that o Marseille). Syne 1974 it haes been the see o the diocese o Le Havre.

Twin touns

Le Havre is twinned, or haes a sister ceety relationship wi:

• Dalian, Cheenae
• Pointe-Noire, Republic o the Congo
• Saunt Petersburg, Roushie, syne 1965
• Magdeburg, Germany
• Southampton, Unitit Kinrick, syne 1973
• Tampa, Unitit States
• Bergen, Norawa
• Aydın, Turkey