Nancy, France

Nancy is a commune. It is the prefecture of the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in the Grand Est region. It was formerly the capital of the old Duchy of Lorraine.

Nancy
Nancy, Place Stanislas, E.Héré, 1752-60.jpg
Place Stanislas in the centre of town
Coat of arms of Nancy
Administration
Country	France
Region	Lorraine
Department	Meurthe-et-Moselle
Arrondissement	Nancy
Canton	3 cantons
Intercommunality	Métropole du Grand Nancy
Mayor	Laurent Hénart (2014–2020)
Statistics
Elevation	188–353 m (617–1,158 ft) (avg. 212 m (696 ft))
Land area1	15.01 km2 (5.80 sq mi)
Population2	105,067  (2012)
- Density	7,000/km2 (18,000/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	54395/ 54000
Website	http://www.nancy.fr/
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.

Nancy has an oceanic climate (Cfb in the Koeppen climate classification).

Education

• École pour l'informatique et les nouvelles technologies
• ICN Business School

Sister cities

Nancy is twinned with:

Newcastle, United Kingdom, since 1954 Liège, Belgium, since 1954 Karlsruhe, Germany, since 1955

Padua, Italy, since 1964 Kanazawa, Japan, since 1973 Kiryat Shmona, Israel, since 1984

Lublin, Poland, since 1988 Cincinnati, United States, since 1991 Kunming, China, since 2017

Krasnodar, Russia, since 2017

Nancy, France Media

• Nancy - palais ducal, façade.jpg

  The Ducal Palace of Nancy

• Nancy Cathedral BW 2015-07-18 16-22-28.jpg

  Nancy Cathedral BW 2015-07-18 16-22-28

• Nancy Porte Here BW 2015-07-18 13-45-28.jpg

  Place Stanislas – Arc Héré

• Museum of the École de Nancy

• Nancy-Université.JPG

  Faculty of Law, Economics and Management of the University of Lorraine

• F Foire-de-Nancy Cours-Léopold.JPG

  Foire de Nancy 2010 - Vue sur le Cours Léopold depuis la grande-roue.

• Grandes Armes de Nancy.svg

  Greater coat of arms of the city of Nancy, France. *The thistle was adopted after the defeat of the Duke of Burgundy in 1477. The chief depicts the coat of arms of the Duchy of Lorraine which was granted to the city by Charles III, Duke of Lorraine in 157

• RenéDeux.jpg

  Engraving depicting the capture of Nancy through Duke René II of Lorraine in 1477

• Diebold Schilling, Battle of Nancy, 1477.jpg

  The Battle of Nancy (5 January 1477)

• Le défilé - char de la Ville-Neuve. Cortège historique, Nancy 1909 P-FG-CP-01467.jpg

  Typographie en bleu au recto. Tampon circulaire "Bibliothèque publique Nancy". Numéro dans la série : 10