Valence, Drôme

Valence Valença
View o the ceety o Valence
Coat o airms
Valence Location within Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region Valence
Coordinates: 44°56′00″N 4°53′30″E
Kintra	Fraunce
Region	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Depairtment	Drôme
Arrondissement	Valence
Intercommunality	Valence-Romans Sud Rhône-Alpes
Govrenment
• Mayor (2014–2020)	Nicolas Daragon
Area1	36.69 km2 (14.17 sq mi)
Population (2012)2	62,481
• Density	1,700/km2 (4,400/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Simmer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
INSEE/Postal code	26362 /26000
Elevation	106–191 m (348–627 ft) (avg. 123 m or 404 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.

Valence (French pronunciation: ​[va.lɑ̃s]; Occitan: Valença) is a commune in sootheastren Fraunce, the caipital o the Drôme depairtment an within the Rhône-Alpes region.

Twin touns

Valence is twinned wi:

• Asti, Italy, syne 1966
• Biberach an der Riß, Germany, syne 1967
• Clacton-on-Sea, Unitit Kinrick, syne 1969
• Ijevan, Armenie, syne 1996
• Gedera, Israel, syne 1997
• Batroun, Lebanon, syne 2005