Le Mans

Le Mans
Palais of Comtes du Maine, birth place of Henry II of England
Le Mans
Location within Pays de la Loire region  Le Mans
Administration
Country	France
Region	Pays de la Loire
Department	Sarthe
Arrondissement	Le Mans
Intercommunality	Le Mans
Mayor	Jean-Claude Boulard (2001–2008)
Statistics
Elevation	38–134 m (125–440 ft) (avg. 51 m/167 ft)
Land area1	52.81 km2 (20.39 sq mi)
Population2	148,169  (2006)
- Density	2,806/km2 (7,270/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	72181/ 72000
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.

Le Mans is a commune. It is found in the Pays de la Loire region in the Sarthe department in the west of France.

Le Mans is a city in France. It has about 143,000 inhabitants. It takes about one hour to go to Paris by TGV.

Sport

• Le Mans is the start of the seventh stage of the 2011 Tour de France.
• The city is well known for the 24-hour car race of Le Mans.

Sister cities

Le Mans is twinned with:

• Bolton, England, United Kingdom
• Haouza, Western Sahara
• Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
• Rostov-on-Don, Rostov Oblast, Russia
• Suzuka, Japan
• Volos, Greece
• Xianyang, Shaanxi, China
• Alexandria, Egypt