Saint-Étienne

Saint-Étienne
Saint-Étienne
	Coat airms
	Saint-Étienne Location within Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region Saint-Étienne
	Coordinates: 45°26′05″N 4°23′25″E / 45.4347°N 4.3903°ECoordinates: 45°26′05″N 4°23′25″E / 45.4347°N 4.3903°E
Kintra	Fraunce
Region	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Depairtment	Loire
Canton	Chief toun o 9 cantons
Intercommunality	Saint-Étienne Métropole
Govrenment
• Mayor (syne Mairch 2008)	Maurice Vincent (PS)
Area 1	79.97 km2 (30.88 sq mi)
Population (2007 estimate)2	178,530
• Rank	16t in Fraunce
• Density	2,200/km2 (5,800/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET (GMT +1))
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	42218 /42000, 42100
Elevation	422–1,117 m (1,385–3,665 ft) ; (avg. 516 m or 1,693 ft)
Website	http://www.saint-etienne.fr/
	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.

Saint-Étienne (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃t‿etjɛn]; Arpitan: Sant-Etiève; Scots: Saunt Stephen) is a ceety in eastren central Fraunce. It is locatit in the Massif Central, 60 km (37.28 mi) soothwast o Lyon in the Rhône-Alpes region, alang the trunk road that connects Toulouse wi Lyon. Saint-Étienne is the caipital o the Loire département an haes a population o approximately 178,500 in the ceety itsel expandin tae wer 317,000 in the metropolitan aurie (2007).