Montpellier

Montpellier
Aqueduc Saint-Clément, Prefectur o the Hérault depairtment (old hôtel of Ganges), place de la Comédie, Detail of the statue « The Strength Taming Love » of Injalbert, Château d'eau du Peyrou, fontaine des Trois Grâces, porte du Peyrou, cathédrale Saint-Pierre.
Coat o airms
Montpellier
Location within Languedoc-Roussillon region  Montpellier
Coordinates: 43°36′43″N 3°52′38″E
Kintra	Fraunce
Region	Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées
Depairtment	Hérault
Arrondissement	Montpellier
Intercommunality	Montpellier
Govrenment
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Hélène Mandroux-Colas (PS)
Aurie
• Land1	56.88 km2 (21.96 sq mi)
Population (2011)2	264,538
• Rank	8t in Fraunce
INSEE/Postal code	34172 / 34000, 34070, 34080, 34090
Elevation	7–118 m (23–387 ft) (avg. 27 m or 89 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population withoot dooble coontin: residents o multiple communes (e.g., students an militar personnel) anly coonted ance.

Montpellier (French pronunciation: [mɔ̃.pə.lje]; Occitan: Montpelhièr [mum.peˈʎɛ]) is a ceety in soothren Fraunce. It is the caipital o the Languedoc-Roussillon region, as well as the Hérault depairtment. Montpellier is the 8t lairgest ceety o Fraunce, an is an aa the fastest growin ceety in the kintra ower the past 25 years. Locatit on the sooth coast o Fraunce on the Mediterranean Sea, it is the third-lairgest French ceety on the Mediterranean coast efter Marseille an Nice.

Internaitional relations

Twin touns – Sister ceeties

Montpellier is twinned wi:

Louisville, Unitit States, syne 1955 Heidelberg, Germany, syne 1961 Kos, Greece, syne 1962 Barcelona, Spain syne 1963 Chengdu, Cheenae, syne 1981 Tiberias, Israel, syne 1983 Fes, Morocco syne 2003 Sherbrooke, Canadae, syne 2006 Tlemcen, Algerie, syne 2009 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil syne 2011 Bethlehem, Palestine, syne 2012