Coulommiers, Seine-et-Marne

Coulommiers
Commanderie of the Knights Templar
Commanderie of the Knights Templar
Coat of arms of Coulommiers
Location of Coulommiers
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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 / 48.8247°N 3.1068°E / 48.8247; 3.1068
CountryFrance
RegionÎle-de-France
DepartmentSeine-et-Marne
ArrondissementMeaux
CantonCoulommiers
IntercommunalityCA Coulommiers Pays de Brie
Government
 • Mayor (2020–2026) Laurence Picard[1]
Area
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10.93 km2 (4.22 sq mi)
Population
 (2021)[2]
15,250
 • Density1,400/km2 (3,600/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.

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

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]

  1. ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
  2. ^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
  3. ^  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainChisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Coulommiers". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 308.