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Commune in Île-de-France, France From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Coulommiers (French pronunciation: [kulɔmje] ) is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France in north-central France.
Coulommiers | |
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![]() Commanderie of the Knights Templar | |
Coordinates: 48°49′29″N 3°06′24″E | |
Country | France |
Region | Île-de-France |
Department | Seine-et-Marne |
Arrondissement | Meaux |
Canton | Coulommiers |
Intercommunality | CA Coulommiers Pays de Brie |
Government | |
• Mayor (2020–2026) | Laurence Picard[1] |
Area 1 | 10.93 km2 (4.22 sq mi) |
Population (2021)[2] | 15,250 |
• Density | 1,400/km2 (3,600/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
INSEE/Postal code | 77131 /77120 |
Elevation | 66–156 m (217–512 ft) |
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. |
It is also the name of a cheese of the Brie family produced around that city. Coulommiers station has rail connections to Tournan-en-Brie and Paris.
The town has a statue to Commandant Nicolas-Joseph Beaurepaire who, in 1792, killed himself rather than surrender Verdun to the Prussians.[3]
Inhabitants of Coulommiers are called Columériens.
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Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
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1968 | 11,263 | — |
1975 | 11,498 | +0.30% |
1982 | 11,886 | +0.48% |
1990 | 13,087 | +1.21% |
1999 | 13,852 | +0.63% |
2007 | 13,649 | −0.18% |
2012 | 14,708 | +1.51% |
2017 | 14,838 | +0.18% |
Source: INSEE[4] |
Coulommiers was twinned with Leighton Buzzard in 1958[5] and with Titisee-Neustadt in 1971. The twinning was renewed in 1982.
Coulommiers was selected to be the first town in France to go fully digital for its terrestrial television, with analog switch-off in January 2009.
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