Coulommiers, Seine-et-Marne

Coulommiers (French pronunciation: [kulɔmje] ⓘ) is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France in north-central France.

Coulommiers
Commune
Commanderie of the Knights Templar
Commanderie of the Knights Templar
Coat of arms of Coulommiers
Coat of arms
Location of Coulommiers
Coulommiers is located in France
Coulommiers
Coulommiers
Coulommiers is located in Île-de-France (region)
Coulommiers
Coulommiers
Coordinates: 48°49′29″N 3°06′24″E
CountryFrance
RegionÎle-de-France
DepartmentSeine-et-Marne
ArrondissementMeaux
CantonCoulommiers
IntercommunalityCA Coulommiers Pays de Brie
Government
 • Mayor (2020–2026) Laurence Picard[1]
Area
1
10.93 km2 (4.22 sq mi)
Population
 (Jan. 2020)[2]
14,953
 • Density1,400/km2 (3,500/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
77131 /77120
Elevation66–156 m (217–512 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

It is also the name of a cheese of the Brie family produced around that city. Coulommiers station has rail connections to Tournan-en-Brie and Paris.

The town has a statue to Commandant Nicolas-Joseph Beaurepaire who, in 1792, killed himself rather than surrender Verdun to the Prussians.[3]

Demographics

Inhabitants of Coulommiers are called Columériens.

Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
1968 11,263—    
1975 11,498+0.30%
1982 11,886+0.48%
1990 13,087+1.21%
1999 13,852+0.63%
2007 13,649−0.18%
2012 14,708+1.51%
2017 14,838+0.18%
Source: INSEE[4]

Twin towns

Coulommiers was twinned with Leighton Buzzard in 1958[5] and with Titisee-Neustadt in 1971. The twinning was renewed in 1982.

History

Coulommiers was selected to be the first town in France to go fully digital for its terrestrial television, with analog switch-off in January 2009.

Notable people

See also

References
  1. "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
  2. "Populations légales 2020". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 29 December 2022.
  3. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Coulommiers". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 308.
  4. Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
  5. "British towns twinned with French towns". Archant Community Media Ltd. Archived from the original on 2013-07-05. Retrieved 2013-07-11.
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