Chartres

Chartres is a French commune in the Eure-et-Loir department. About 39,000 people live there.

Chartres
Chartres cathedral.jpg
The cathedral
Administration
Country	France
Region	Centre
Department	Eure-et-Loir
Statistics
Elevation	121–461 m (397–1,512 ft) (avg. 142 m (466 ft))
Land area1	16.85 km2 (6.51 sq mi)
Population2	38,889  (2012)
- Density	2,308/km2 (5,980/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	28085/ 28000
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Sister cities

Chartres is twinned with:

• Ravenna, Italy
• Speyer, Germany
• Chichester, United Kingdom
• Bethlehem, Palestinian Authority
• Évora, Portugal
• Cusco, Peru

Chartres Media

• Facade cathedral.jpg

  This building is indexed in the base Mérimée, a database of architectural heritage maintained by the French Ministry of Culture, under the reference PA00096993

• The famous "Chartres blue"

• Monografie de la Cathedrale de Chartres - 10 Facade Meridionale - Gravure.jpg

  South elevation, lithography 1864

• Loire Eure Chartres7 tango7174.jpg

  The Church of Saint Aignan

• L’Eure dans la ville de Chartres.jpg

  The Eure river running through Chartres

• The Hôtel de Ville

• Gare de Chartres

• France Eure et Loir Chartres Cathedrale nuit 02.jpg

  France Eure-et-Loir Chartres Cathédrale vue nocturne Photographie prise par GIRAUD Patrick

• France Eure-et-Loir Chartres Cathedrale 02.jpg

  The Apostles and Saint sculptures of Chartres