Nantes

Nantes
Nantes; Naoned
	Place Royale
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	Motto(s): Laitin: Favet Neptunus eunti; ("Neptune favours the traveller")
	Nantes Location within Pays de la Loire region Nantes
	Coordinates: 47°13′05″N 1°33′10″W / 47.2181°N 1.5528°WCoordinates: 47°13′05″N 1°33′10″W / 47.2181°N 1.5528°W
Kintra	Fraunce
Region	Pays de la Loire
Depairtment	Loire-Atlantique
Arrondissement	Nantes
Canton	Chief ceety o 11 cantons
Intercommunality	Nantes Métropole
Govrenment
• Mayor (2012–)	Patrick Rimbert (PS)
Area 1	65.19 km2 (25.17 sq mi)
• Urban (2008)	524.6 km2 (202.5 sq mi)
• Metro (1999)	2,242.6 km2 (865.9 sq mi)
Population (2016-01-01)2	314,611
• Rank	6t in Fraunce
• Density	4,800/km2 (12,000/sq mi)
• Urban (2007)	580,502
• Urban density	1,100/km2 (2,900/sq mi)
• Metro (2010)	873,133
• Metro density	390/km2 (1,000/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET (GMT +1))
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	44109 /44000, 44100, 44200 an 44300
Diallin codes	02
Website	nantes.fr (in French)
	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.

Nantes (French pronunciation: [nɑ̃t]; Breton: Naoned, [ˈnãunət]; Gallo: Naunnt) is a ceety in Wast Fraunce, locatit on the Loire River, 50 km (31 mi) frae the Atlantic coast.^[1] The ceety is the 6t lairgest in Fraunce, while its metropolitan aurie ranks 6t wi nearly 900,000 indwallers.^[2]

Internaitional relations

Nantes is twinned or haes sister ceety relations wi:

Cardiff, Unitit Kinrick syne 1964^[3]^[4] Saarbrücken, Germany, syne 1965 Tbilisi, Georgie, syne 1979^[5] Seattle, WA, USA, syne 1980 Jacksonville, FL, USA, syne 1985	Cluj-Napoca, Romania, syne 1991 Rufisque, Senegal, syne 1992 Agadir, Morocco, syne 1993 Cochabamba, Bolivia, syne 1999 Niigata, Japan, syne 1999	Dschang, Cameroon, syne 2002 Recife, Brazil, syne 2003 Durban, Sooth Africae, syne 2004 Qingdao, Cheenae, syne 2005 Suncheon, Sooth Korea, syne 2007

The ceety haes an aa biggit close ties wi:

Guinea, syne 1992 St. Martinville, Louisiana, USA, syne 1993 Jericho, Wast Bank, syne 2001 Desdunes an Petionville, Haiti, syne 2005 Nantes, Quebec, Canadae, syne 2009

↑ Nantes Hutchinson Encyclopedia. Retrieved 14 August 2007.
↑ Population des villes de France au dernier recensement Archived 2008-05-16 at the Wayback Machine PopulationData.net. Retrieved 14 August 2007
↑ "British towns twinned with French towns". Archant Community Media Ltd. Retrieved 11 Julie 2013.
↑ "Home page of Cardiff Council – Cardiff's twin cities". Cardiff Council. 15 Juin 2010. Archived frae the original on 9 Juin 2011. Retrieved 10 August 2010.
↑ "Tbilisi Sister Cities". Tbilisi City Hall. Tbilisi Municipal Portal. Archived frae the original on 24 Julie 2013. Retrieved 5 August 2013. freemit airtin in |work= (help)Archived 2013-07-24 at the Wayback Machine