Strasbourg
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Strasbourg (Template:IPA-fr; Lower Alsatian: Strossburi, Template:IPA-gsw; German: Straßburg, Template:IPA-de) is the caipital an principal ceety o the Alsace region in north-eastren Fraunce an is the offeecial seat o the European Parliament. Locatit close tae the border wi Germany, it is the caipital o the Bas-Rhin depairtment. In 2006, the ceety proper haed 272,975 inhabitants an its urban community 467,375 inhabitants. Wi 638,670 inhabitants in 2006, Strasbourg's metropolitan aurie ("aire urbaine") (ae the pairt o the metropolitan aurie on French territory) is the nint lairgest in Fraunce. The transnational Eurodistrict Strasbourg-Ortenau haes a population o 884,988 inhabitants.[1]
[edit] Twin Touns - Sister Ceeties
Strasbourg is twinned wi:
Boston, Unitit States, syne 1960
Leicester, Unitit Kinrick, syne 1960
Stuttgart, Germany (then Wast-Germany), syne 1962- Dresden, Germany (then East-Germany), syne 1990[2]
Ramat Gan, Israel, syne 1991
Istanbul, Turkey
Jacmel, Haiti, syne 1996 (Coopération décentralisée)
Novgorod, Roushie, syne 1997 (Coopération décentralisée)
Fes, Morocco (Coopération décentralisée)
[edit] References
- ↑ The offeecial wabsteid o the Eurodistrict indicates a population o 868,014, but this does no take inte accoont the offeecial figures for 2008 o the Ortenaukreis, which haed a population o 417,613 on 31 December 2008. 884,988 is the addition o the French 2006 census an the German 2008 census. The real actual number o inhabitants is in fact even heicher, due tae the steady growth o the Urban Community o Strasbourg.
- ↑ Dresden - Partner Cities. © 2008 Landeshauptstadt Dresden. Retrieved on 29 Dizember 2008. . Template:Dead link
