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Indre-et-Loire
Coat of arms of the Indre-et-Loire department
Location
Administration
Department number:	37
Region:	Centre
Prefecture:	Tours
Subprefectures:	Chinon Loches
Arrondissements:	3
Cantons:	37
Communes:	277
President of the General Council:	Marc Pommereau
Statistics
Population	Ranked 41st
-1999	554,003
Population density:	90/km²
Land area¹:	6127 km²
¹ French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, and lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km².

Indre-et-Loire is a department in west-central France named after the Indre and the Loire rivers.

History

Indre-et-Loire is one of the original 83 départements created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790. It was created from the former province of Touraine.

Tours was a center of learning in the early Middle Ages.

Geography

Indre-et-Loire is part of the current region of Centre (Val de Loire) and is surrounded by the départements of Loir-et-Cher, Indre, Vienne, Maine-et-Loire, and Sarthe.

Tourism

Indre-et-Loire is home to numerous outstanding châteaux that are open to the public, among them are the following:

• Château d'Amboise
• Azay-le-Rideau
• Château de la Bourdaisière
• Château de Chenonceau
• Château de Plessis-lez-Tours
• Chinon
• Courcelles-de-Touraine
• Château de Langeais
• Marcay
• Montpoupon
• Tours
• Château de Villandry
• Château du Rivau
• Loches

Indre-et-Loire map

See also

• Cantons of the Indre-et-Loire department
• Communes of the Indre-et-Loire department
• Arrondissements of the Indre-et-Loire department

External links

• (French) Prefecture website
• (French) General Council website
• (English) Indre-et-Loire at the Open Directory Project

• http://www.tourism-touraine.com/
• Map of the department

v • d • e Departments of France Ain • Aisne • Allier • Alpes-de-Haute-Provence • Hautes-Alpes • Alpes-Maritimes • Ardèche • Ardennes • Ariège • Aube • Aude • Aveyron • Bouches-du-Rhône • Calvados • Cantal • Charente • Charente-Maritime • Cher • Corrèze • Corse-du-Sud • Haute-Corse • Côte-d'Or • Côtes-d'Armor • Creuse • Dordogne • Doubs • Drôme • Eure • Eure-et-Loir • Finistère • Gard • Haute-Garonne • Gers • Gironde • Hérault • Ille-et-Vilaine • Indre • Indre-et-Loire • Isère • Jura • Landes • Loir-et-Cher • Loire • Haute-Loire • Loire-Atlantique • Loiret • Lot • Lot-et-Garonne • Lozère • Maine-et-Loire • Manche • Marne • Haute-Marne • Mayenne • Meurthe-et-Moselle • Meuse • Morbihan • Moselle • Nièvre • Nord • Oise • Orne • Pas-de-Calais • Puy-de-Dôme • Pyrénées-Atlantiques • Hautes-Pyrénées • Pyrénées-Orientales • Bas-Rhin • Haut-Rhin • Rhône • Haute-Saône • Saône-et-Loire • Sarthe • Savoie • Haute-Savoie • Paris • Seine-Maritime • Seine-et-Marne • Yvelines • Deux-Sèvres • Somme • Tarn • Tarn-et-Garonne • Var • Vaucluse • Vendée • Vienne • Haute-Vienne • Vosges • Yonne • Territoire de Belfort • Essonne • Hauts-de-Seine • Seine-Saint-Denis • Val-de-Marne • Val-d'Oise Overseas departments: Guadeloupe • Martinique • French Guiana • Réunion

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