Toulouse
Coordinates: 43°36′16″N 1°26′38″E / 43.6045°N 1.444°E
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Commune o Toulouse |
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| Tolosa | |
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Motto: Per Tolosa totjorn mai. |
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| Location | |
  Toulouse
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| Administration | |
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| Kintra | Fraunce |
| Region | Midi-Pyrénées |
| Depairtment | Haute-Garonne |
| Arrondissement | Toulouse |
| Intercommunality | Grand Toulouse |
| Mayor | Pierre Cohen (PS) (2008–2014) |
| Statistics | |
| Population2 | 440,204 (2009[1]) |
| - Ranking | 4t in Fraunce |
| Urban spread | |
| Urban aurie | 811.6 km2 (313.4 sq mi) (2008) |
| - Population | 864,936[2] (1 Januar 2008) |
| Metro aurie | 5,381 km2 (2,078 sq mi) (2008) |
| - Population | 1,202,889[3] (1 Januar 2008) |
| Wabsteid | http://www.toulouse.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. | |
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 1,102,882 inhabitants as of Jan.1 2006,[4] 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.[5] 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.[6]
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.
Internaitional relations [edit]
Twin touns — Sister ceeties [edit]
Toulouse is twinned wi:
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Toulouse an aa haes accords o cooperation wi the follaein touns:
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In addition, Toulouse haes an adoption ceety:
Câmpia Turzii, Romanie
References [edit]
- ↑ (French) INSEE. Commune : Toulouse (31555). Retrieved on 27 August 2012. .
- ↑ (French) INSEE. Unité urbaine 2010 : Toulouse (31701). Retrieved on 22 Mairch 2012. .
- ↑ (French) INSEE. Aire urbaine 2010 : Toulouse (004). Retrieved on 22 Mairch 2012. .
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedpopulation - ↑ (French) CNES. Ademe.fr (PDF). Retrieved on 30 Mey 2007. .
- ↑ Atlas 2005-2006 de l'éducation nationale, [pdf] Consulté le 11/09/2007
