Montpellier

Montpellier
Montpellier
	Aqueduc Saint-Clément, Prefectur o the Hérault depairtment (old hôtel of Ganges), place de la Comédie, Detail of the statue « The Strength Taming Love » of Injalbert, Château d'eau du Peyrou, fontaine des Trois Grâces, porte du Peyrou, cathédrale Saint-Pierre.
	Coat airms
	Montpellier Location within Occitanie region Montpellier
	Coordinates: 43°36′43″N 3°52′38″E / 43.6119°N 3.8772°ECoordinates: 43°36′43″N 3°52′38″E / 43.6119°N 3.8772°E
Kintra	Fraunce
Region	Occitanie
Depairtment	Hérault
Arrondissement	Montpellier
Intercommunality	Montpellier
Govrenment
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Hélène Mandroux-Colas (PS)
Area 1	56.88 km2 (21.96 sq mi)
Population (2011)2	264,538
• Rank	8t in Fraunce
• Density	4,700/km2 (12,000/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	34172 /34000, 34070, 34080, 34090
Elevation	7–118 m (23–387 ft) ; (avg. 27 m or 89 ft)
	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.

Montpellier (French pronunciation: [mɔ̃.pə.lje]; Occitan: Montpelhièr [mum.peˈʎɛ]) is a ceety in soothren Fraunce. It is the caipital o the Languedoc-Roussillon region, as well as the Hérault depairtment. Montpellier is the 8t lairgest ceety o Fraunce, an is an aa the fastest growin ceety in the kintra ower the past 25 years.^[1] Locatit on the sooth coast o Fraunce on the Mediterranean Sea, it is the third-lairgest French ceety on the Mediterranean coast efter Marseille an Nice.

Internaitional relations

Montpellier is twinned wi:

Louisville, Unitit States, syne 1955 Heidelberg, Germany, syne 1961 Kos, Greece, syne 1962 Barcelona, Spain syne 1963^[2] Chengdu, Cheenae, syne 1981 Tiberias, Israel, syne 1983 Fes, Morocco syne 2003 Sherbrooke, Canadae, syne 2006 Tlemcen, Algerie, syne 2009 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil syne 2011 Bethlehem, Palestine, syne 2012

↑ "Montpellier Tourist Information and Montpellier Tourism". Montpellier Information and Tourism. Archived frae the original on 2 Mey 2013. Retrieved 5 Juin 2010.
↑ "Barcelona internacional – Ciutats agermanades" (in Spanish). © 2006–2009 Ajuntament de Barcelona. Archived frae the original on 27 November 2012. Retrieved 13 Julie 2009. freemit airtin in |publisher= (help)CS1 maint: unrecognised leid (link)