Le Havre
Appearance
Le Havre | |
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Coordinates: 49°29′24″N 0°06′00″E / 49.49000°N 0.100000°ECoordinates: 49°29′24″N 0°06′00″E / 49.49000°N 0.100000°E | |
Kintra | Fraunce |
Region | Normandy |
Depairtment | Seine-Maritime |
Arrondissement | Rouen |
Intercommunality | CODAH |
Govrenment | |
• Mayor (2010 - 2014) | Edouard Phillippe (UMP) |
Area 1 | 46.95 km2 (18.13 sq mi) |
• Urban (2006) | 182.45 km2 (70.44 sq mi) |
• Metro (2006) | 615.39 km2 (237.60 sq mi) |
Population (2007)2 | 179,751 |
• Rank | 12t in Fraunce |
• Density | 3,800/km2 (9,900/sq mi) |
• Urban (2006) | 246,195 |
• Urban density | 1,300/km2 (3,500/sq mi) |
• Metro (2006) | 291,765 |
• Metro density | 470/km2 (1,200/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET (UTC +1)) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
INSEE/Postal code | 76351 / |
Website | www.ville-lehavre.fr |
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. |
UNESCO Warld Heritage Steid | |
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Criteria | Cultural: ii, iv |
Reference | 1181 |
Inscription | 2005 (29th Session) |
Le Havre (French pronunciation: [lə ɑvʁ]) is a ceety in the Seine-Maritime depairtment o the Upper Normandy region in Fraunce. It is situatit in north-wastren Fraunce, on the richt bank o the mooth o the river Seine on the Inglis Channel. Le Havre is the maist populous commune in the Haute-Normandie region, although the total population o the greater Le Havre conurbation is smawer than that o Rouen. It is the seicont lairgest subprefectur in Fraunce (efter Reims). Its port is the seicont busiest in Fraunce (efter that o Marseille). Syne 1974 it haes been the see o the diocese o Le Havre.
Twin touns
[eedit | eedit soorce]Le Havre is twinned, or haes a sister ceety relationship wi:[1]
- Dalian, Cheenae
- Pointe-Noire, Republic o the Congo
- Saunt Petersburg, Roushie, syne 1965[2]
- Magdeburg, Germany
- Southampton, Unitit Kinrick, syne 1973
- Tampa, Unitit States
- Bergen, Norawa
- Aydın, Turkey
Notes
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ "Le Havre Website - Twin Towns". lehavre.eu. Retrieved 29 November 2008.
- ↑ "Saint Petersburg in figures - International and Interregional Ties". Saint Petersburg City Government. Archived frae the original on 24 Februar 2009. Retrieved 23 November 2008.
Categeries:
- Le Havre
- Ceeties in Fraunce
- Communes o Seine-Maritime
- Olympic sailin venues
- Populatit coastal places in Fraunce
- Populatit places established in 1517
- Port ceeties an touns in Fraunce
- Ports an harbours o the Inglis Channel
- Subprefecturs in Fraunce
- Warld Heritage Steids in Fraunce
- 1900 Simmer Olympic venues
- 1924 Simmer Olympic venues