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Le Mans | |
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Palais of Comtes du Maine, birth place of Henry II of England | |
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Administration | |
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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:
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Bolton, England, United Kingdom
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Haouza, Western Sahara
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Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Rostov-on-Don, Rostov Oblast, Russia
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Suzuka, Japan
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Volos, Greece
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Xianyang, Shaanxi, China
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Alexandria, Egypt