Loire

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Loire
Coat of arms of the Loire department
Location
Image:Carte France Département 42.png
Administration
Department number: 42
Region: Rhône-Alpes
Prefecture: Saint-Étienne
Subprefectures: Montbrison
Roanne
Arrondissements: 3
Cantons: 40
Communes: 327
President of the General Council: Pascal Clément
Statistics
Population Ranked 27th
 -1999 728,524
Population density: 152/km²
Land area¹: 4781 km²
¹ French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, and lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km².
Image:Flag of France.svg
This article is about the French department. For the river, see Loire River. For the valley, see Loire Valley.

Loire (Arpitan: Lêre, Occitan: Léger) is an administrative department in the east-central part of France occupying the River Loire's upper reaches.

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[edit] History

Loire was created in 1793 when the original department of Rhône-et-Loire was split.

Its capitals have been the following:

[edit] Geography

Loire is part of the current administrative region of Rhône-Alpes and is surrounded by the departments of Rhône, Isère, Ardèche, Haute-Loire, Puy-de-Dôme, Allier, and Saône-et-Loire.

The River Loire traverses the department from south to north.

The Loire department is split into three arrondissements:

[edit] Demographics

The inhabitants of the department are called Ligériens.

The industrial city of Saint-Étienne with its suburbs contains some 290,000 of the area's 728,542 inhabitants.

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