Angers
Angers (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃.ʒe]) is the main ceety in the Maine-et-Loire depairtment in wastren Fraunce aboot 300 km (190 mi) sooth-wast o Paris. Angers is locatit in the French region kent bi its pre-revolutionary, provincial name, Anjou, an its inhabitants are cried Angevins.
Angers | |
|---|---|
 Château d'Angers | |
 Coat airms | |
  Angers Location within Pays de la Loire region  Angers | |
| Coordinates: 47°28′25″N 0°33′15″W / 47.4736°N 0.5542°W 0°33′15″W / 47.4736°N 0.5542°W | |
| Kintra | Fraunce |
| Region | Pays de la Loire |
| Depairtment | Maine-et-Loire |
| Arrondissement | Angers |
| Intercommunality | Angers Loire Métropole |
| Govrenment | |
| • Mayor (2001–2014) | Jean-Claude Antonini (PS) |
| Area 1 | 62.71 km2 (24.21 sq mi) |
| Population (1999 estimate)2 | 157,000 |
| • Density | 2,500/km2 (6,500/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET (GMT +1)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 49007 /49000 |
| Elevation | 12–64 m (39–210 ft) (avg. 20 m or 66 ft) |
| Website | angers.fr/foreign-versions/english-version/ |
| 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. | |
Angers proper haes a population o 157,000 inhabitants, while c. 283,000 live in its metropolitan aurie. The ceety traces its ruits tae early Roman times. It occupees baith banks o the Maine, which is spanned bi sax brigs. The destrict alang the river haes flourishin nurseries an mercat gardens. It is kent for its fresh produce an cut flouers.
| Historical population | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
| 1793 | 33,900 | — |
| 1800 | 33,000 | −2.7% |
| 1806 | 29,187 | −11.6% |
| 1821 | 29,873 | +2.4% |
| 1831 | 32,743 | +9.6% |
| 1836 | 35,901 | +9.6% |
| 1841 | 39,884 | +11.1% |
| 1846 | 44,781 | +12.3% |
| 1851 | 46,599 | +4.1% |
| 1856 | 50,726 | +8.9% |
| 1861 | 51,797 | +2.1% |
| 1866 | 54,791 | +5.8% |
| 1872 | 58,464 | +6.7% |
| 1876 | 56,846 | −2.8% |
| 1881 | 68,049 | +19.7% |
| 1886 | 73,044 | +7.3% |
| 1891 | 72,669 | −0.5% |
| 1896 | 77,164 | +6.2% |
| 1901 | 82,398 | +6.8% |
| 1906 | 82,935 | +0.7% |
| 1911 | 83,786 | +1.0% |
| 1921 | 86,158 | +2.8% |
| 1926 | 86,260 | +0.1% |
| 1931 | 85,602 | −0.8% |
| 1936 | 87,988 | +2.8% |
| 1946 | 94,408 | +7.3% |
| 1954 | 102,142 | +8.2% |
| 1962 | 115,252 | +12.8% |
| 1968 | 128,533 | +11.5% |
| 1975 | 137,591 | +7.0% |
| 1982 | 136,038 | −1.1% |
| 1990 | 141,404 | +3.9% |
| 1999 | 151,279 | +7.0% |
| 2006 | 152,237 | +0.6% |
| 2007 | 151,108 | −0.7% |
| 2008 | 148,405 | −1.8% |
| 2009 | 147,305 | −0.7% |
| 2010 | 147,571 | +0.2% |
| 2011 | 148,803 | +0.8% |
| 2012 | 149,017 | +0.1% |
| 2013 | 150,125 | +0.7% |
| 2014 | 151,056 | +0.6% |
Twin touns – sister ceeties
Angers is twinned wi:
References
This airticle incorporates text frae a publication nou in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "article name needed". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. Cite has empty unkent parameters: |HIDE_PARAMETER15=,|HIDE_PARAMETER13=,|HIDE_PARAMETER14c=,|HIDE_PARAMETER14=,|HIDE_PARAMETER9=,|HIDE_PARAMETER3=,|HIDE_PARAMETER1=,|HIDE_PARAMETER4=,|HIDE_PARAMETER2=,|HIDE_PARAMETER8=,|HIDE_PARAMETER20=,|HIDE_PARAMETER5=,|HIDE_PARAMETER7=,|HIDE_PARAMETER10=,|separator=,|HIDE_PARAMETER14b=,|HIDE_PARAMETER6=,|HIDE_PARAMETER11=, and|HIDE_PARAMETER12=(help)CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
Notes
Freemit airtins
- Offeecial wabsteid
- Offeecial wabsteid (in French)
- Angers Info Archived 2019-05-14 at the Wayback Machine
- University o Angers (in French)
- ESSCA
- Angers SCO Offeecial Wabsteid Archived 2012-02-07 at the Wayback Machine
- The offeecial wabsteid o Angers Tourist Information Centre Archived 2013-01-24 at the Wayback Machine
- “A Visit to the Slate Quarries of Angers,” France, article from the Scientific American – Supplement No. 974, Munn & Co., New York, 1894, on Stone Quarries and Beyond.
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