Orléans

It is the caipital o the Loiret depairtment an o the region o Centre-Val de Loire.

Orléans
Orléans Location within Centre-Val de Loire region Orléans
Coordinates: 47°54′09″N 1°54′32″E / 47.9025°N 1.9090°E / 47.9025; 1.9090 1°54′32″E / 47.9025°N 1.9090°E / 47.9025; 1.9090
Kintra	Fraunce
Region	Centre-Val de Loire
Depairtment	Loiret
Arrondissement	Orléans
Canton	Chief toun o 6 cantons
Intercommunality	Orléans Val de Loire
Govrenment
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Serge Grouard (Radical–UMP)
Area 1	27.48 km2 (10.61 sq mi)
Population  (2016-01-01)2	118,102
• Density	4,300/km2 (11,000/sq mi)
• Metro  (2015)	433,337
Demonym(s)	Orléanais.e (French)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	45234 /45000
Elevation	90–124 m (295–407 ft) (avg. 116 m or 381 ft)
Website	http://www.orleans.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.

Orléans is locatit on the Loire River whaur the river curves sooth towards the Massif Central.

The ceety o New Orleans (still cried in French La Nouvelle-Orléans), in the Unitit States is named efter the commune o Orléans.

Museums

• Charles Peguy Centre
• Joan o Arc's Hoose
• Fine Airts Museum
• Ceety's Historical an Aircheological Museum
• Natural Sciences Museum

Pairks

• Parc Floral de la Source
• Motte Sanguin gairden
• Charpenterie gairden
• Plants gairden
• Anjorrant parc
• Charbonnière parc
• Moins Roux parc
• Pasteur parc

Media

• 1 TV netwirk Orleans TV
• 1 News paper La République du Centre Archived 2011-06-26 at the Wayback Machine (the Centre Republic)

Orléans is twinned wi:

•   Dundee, Unitit Kinrick
•   Treviso, Italy
•   Münster, Germany
•   Kristiansand, Norawa
•   Wichita, Unitit States
•   Tarragona, Spain
•   Saint-Flour, France
•   Utsunomiya, Japan
•   Lugoj, Romanie
•   Parakou, Benin
•   Tyre, Lebanon
•   Perm, Roushie

It haes a pairtnership wi:

•   Kraków in Poland

The Varsity campus is in the La Source aurie in soothren pairt o the commune.

• Cooncil o Orléans
• Hoose o Orléans
• Orléanist
• Roman Catholic Diocese o Orléans Bishopric o Orléans

  Travel guide tae Orléans frae Wikivoyage

• (in French) Orléans commune offeecial wab steid
• France on WorldStatesmen
• (in French) Tourism Office Archived 2009-06-19 at the Wayback Machine
• (in French) offeecial wab steid o Orleans