Strasbourg
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Strasbourg is the largest city in the Grand Est region of northeastern France, located in the historic Alsace area. It serves as the official home of the European Parliament, making it an important center of European government alongside being a major French city.
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Place details
- Locality
- Strasbourg
- Region
- Grand Est
- Country
- France
- Population
- 274,845
- Timezone
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- Etymology and names
- History
- Geography
- Location
- Climate
- Districts
- Main sights
- Architecture
- Parks
- Museums
- Overview
- Fine-art museums
- Other museums
- University museums
- Museums in the suburbs
- Demographics
- Population composition
- Culture
- Events
- Education
- Universities and tertiary education
- Other tertiary institutions
- Primary and secondary education
- Libraries
- Incunabula
- Transport
- Strasbourg public transport statistics
- European role
- Institutions
- Eurodistrict
- Sports
- Honours
- Notable people
- Twin towns and sister cities
- In popular culture
- In film
- In literature
- In music
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Strasbourg ( , ; ; ) is a prefecture and commune in, and the largest city of the Grand Est region of northeastern France, in the historic region of Alsace. It is the prefecture of the Bas-Rhin department and the official seat of the European Parliament.
The city has about three hundred thousand inhabitants, and together Greater Strasbourg and the arrondissement of Strasbourg have over five hundred thousand. Strasbourg's metropolitan area had a population of 860,744 in 2020, making it the eighth-largest metro area in France and home to 14% of the Grand Est region's inhabitants. The transnational Eurodistrict Strasbourg-Ortenau had a population of roughly 1,000,000 in 2022. Strasbourg is one of the de facto four main capitals of the European Union (alongside Brussels, Luxembourg and Frankfurt), as it is the seat of several European institutions, such as the European Parliament, the Eurocorps and the European Ombudsman of the European Union. An organization separate from the European Union, the Council of Europe (with its European Court of Human Rights, its European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines most commonly known in French as "Pharmacopée Européenne", and its European Audiovisual Observatory) is also located in the city.