Chalon-sur-Saône
Appearance
Chalon-sur-Saône | |
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Coordinates: 46°46′50″N 4°51′10″E / 46.7806°N 4.8528°ECoordinates: 46°46′50″N 4°51′10″E / 46.7806°N 4.8528°E | |
Kintra | Fraunce |
Region | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté |
Depairtment | Saône-et-Loire |
Arrondissement | Chalon-sur-Saône |
Intercommunality | Le grand Chalon |
Govrenment | |
• Mayor (2008–2014) | Christophe Sirugue |
Area 1 | 15.22 km2 (5.88 sq mi) |
Population (2006)2 | 48,376 |
• Density | 3,200/km2 (8,200/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
INSEE/Postal code | 71076 /71100 |
Elevation | 172–190 m (564–623 ft) (avg. 185 m or 607 ft) |
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. |
Chalon-sur-Saône (French pronunciation: [ʃa.lɔ̃.syʁ.son]) is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire depairtment in the region o Burgundy in eastren Fraunce.
It is a sub-prefectur o the depairtment. It is the mucklest ceety in the depairtment; housomeivver, the depairtment caipital is the smawer ceety o Mâcon.
Twin touns
[eedit | eedit soorce]Chalon-sur-Saône is twinned wi:
- St. Helens, Unitit Kinrick. Lik Chalon, which haes a muckle Saint-Gobain factory, St. Helens is a prominent centre o gless manufacturin.
- Solingen, Germany
- Novara, Italy
- Næstved, Denmark
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]Freemit airtins
[eedit | eedit soorce]- Offeecial wabsteid (in French)
- Local web portal www.vivre-a-chalon.com Archived 2012-04-24 at the Wayback Machine (in French)
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