Angers

Angers
Château d'Angers
Coat airms
Angers Location within Pays de la Loire region Angers
Coordinates: 47°28′25″N 0°33′15″W
Kintra	Fraunce
Region	Pays de la Loire
Depairtment	Maine-et-Loire
Arrondissement	Angers
Intercommunality	Angers Loire Métropole
Govrenment
• Mayor (2001–2014)	Jean-Claude Antonini (PS)
Area 1	62.71 km2 (24.21 sq mi)
Population  (1999 estimate)2	157,000
• Density	2,500/km2 (6,500/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET (GMT +1))
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	49007 /49000
Elevation	12–64 m (39–210 ft) (avg. 20 m or 66 ft)
Website	angers.fr/foreign-versions/english-version/
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.

Angers (French pronunciation: ​[ɑ̃.ʒe]) is the main ceety in the Maine-et-Loire depairtment in wastren Fraunce aboot 300 km (190 mi) sooth-wast o Paris. Angers is locatit in the French region kent bi its pre-revolutionary, provincial name, Anjou, an its inhabitants are cried Angevins.

Angers proper haes a population o 157,000 inhabitants, while c. 283,000 live in its metropolitan aurie. The ceety traces its ruits tae early Roman times. It occupees baith banks o the Maine, which is spanned bi sax brigs. The destrict alang the river haes flourishin nurseries an mercat gardens. It is kent for its fresh produce an cut flouers.

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1793	33,900	—
1800	33,000	−2.7%
1806	29,187	−11.6%
1821	29,873	+2.4%
1831	32,743	+9.6%
1836	35,901	+9.6%
1841	39,884	+11.1%
1846	44,781	+12.3%
1851	46,599	+4.1%
1856	50,726	+8.9%
1861	51,797	+2.1%
1866	54,791	+5.8%
1872	58,464	+6.7%
1876	56,846	−2.8%
1881	68,049	+19.7%
1886	73,044	+7.3%
1891	72,669	−0.5%
1896	77,164	+6.2%
1901	82,398	+6.8%
1906	82,935	+0.7%
1911	83,786	+1.0%
1921	86,158	+2.8%
1926	86,260	+0.1%
1931	85,602	−0.8%
1936	87,988	+2.8%
1946	94,408	+7.3%
1954	102,142	+8.2%
1962	115,252	+12.8%
1968	128,533	+11.5%
1975	137,591	+7.0%
1982	136,038	−1.1%
1990	141,404	+3.9%
1999	151,279	+7.0%
2006	152,237	+0.6%
2007	151,108	−0.7%
2008	148,405	−1.8%
2009	147,305	−0.7%
2010	147,571	+0.2%
2011	148,803	+0.8%
2012	149,017	+0.1%
2013	150,125	+0.7%
2014	151,056	+0.6%

Twin touns – sister ceeties

Angers is twinned wi:

• Haarlem, Netherlands, syne 1964
• Osnabrück, Germany, syne 1964
• Bamako, Mali, syne 1974
• Pisa, Italy, syne 1982
• Wigan, Unitit Kinrick, syne 1988
• Södertälje, Swaden, syne 1998
• Seville, Spain, syne 2000
• Yantai, Cheenae, syne 2006

References

•  This airticle incorporates text frae a publication nou in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "^{article name needed}". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

Freemit airtins

• Offeecial wabsteid
• Offeecial wabsteid (in French)
• Angers Info Archived 2019-05-14 at the Wayback Machine
• University o Angers (in French)
• ESSCA
• Angers SCO Offeecial Wabsteid Archived 2012-02-07 at the Wayback Machine
• The offeecial wabsteid o Angers Tourist Information Centre Archived 2013-01-24 at the Wayback Machine
• “A Visit to the Slate Quarries of Angers,” France, article from the Scientific American – Supplement No. 974, Munn & Co., New York, 1894, on Stone Quarries and Beyond.