Toulouse
Sign in to saveToulouse (, , ; ) is a city in Southern France, the prefecture of the Haute-Garonne department and of the Occitania region. The city is on the banks of the River Garonne, from the Mediterranean Sea, from the Atlantic Ocean and from Paris. It is the fourth-largest city in France after Paris, Marseille, and Lyon, with 514,819 inhabitants within its municipal boundaries (2023); its metropolitan area has a population of 1,513,396 inhabitants (2022). Toulouse is the central city of one of the 22 metropolitan councils of France. Between the 2014 and 2020 censuses, its metropolitan area was the third
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Toulouse is a city in Southern France situated on the River Garonne, serving as the prefecture of the Haute-Garonne department and the Occitania region. It is France's fourth-largest city by population and an important metropolitan center, with over 514,000 residents within the city and approximately 1.5 million in its surrounding metropolitan area.
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Place details
- Locality
- Toulouse
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Population
- 511,684
- Timezone
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60 sectionsContents
- Geography
- Hydrography
- Climate
- History
- Early history
- Toulouse refounded by the Romans on the banks of the Garonne
- Capital of the Visigothic Kingdom
- Under Frankish rule
- County of Toulouse
- The fight against Catharism and its various aspects
- Kingdom of France
- 19th century
- 20th and 21st centuries
- Population
- Immigration
- Government and politics
- Toulouse Métropole
- Local politics
- Mayors
- Sights and architecture
- Romanesque architecture (11th-12th c.)
- Basilica of Saint-Sernin
- Gothic architecture (13th c.-early 16th c.)
- Southern French Gothic: a militant religious architecture
- Gothic civil architecture
- Renaissance architecture (16th c.-early 17th c.)
- 17th century architecture
- 17th century religious architecture
- 17th century civil architecture
- 18th century architecture
- 19th century architecture
- 20th and 21st centuries architecture
- Banks of the Garonne, Canal du Midi, parks
- Museums and theme parks
- Economy
- Education
- Colleges and universities
- Primary and secondary schools
- Transport
- Train
- Metro
- Tramway
- Cable car
- Bicycle
- Airports
- Canal
- Toulouse public transportation statistics
- Communications
- Culture
- Sport
- Notable people
- International relations
- Twin towns and sister cities
- Other cooperations
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Citations
- Sources
- External links
Toulouse (, , ; ) is a city in Southern France, the prefecture of the Haute-Garonne department and of the Occitania region. The city is on the banks of the River Garonne, from the Mediterranean Sea, from the Atlantic Ocean and from Paris. It is the fourth-largest city in France after Paris, Marseille, and Lyon, with 514,819 inhabitants within its municipal boundaries (2023); its metropolitan area has a population of 1,513,396 inhabitants (2022). Toulouse is the central city of one of the 22 metropolitan councils of France. Between the 2014 and 2020 censuses, its metropolitan area was the third fastest growing among metropolitan areas larger than 500,000 inhabitants in France.
Toulouse is the centre of the European aerospace industry, with the headquarters of Airbus, the SPOT satellite system, ATR and the Aerospace Valley. It hosts the CNES's Toulouse Space Centre (CST) which is the largest national space centre in Europe, but also, on the military side, the newly created NATO space centre of excellence and the French Space Command and Space Academy. Safran, Thales Alenia Space, Airbus Defence and Space, Collins Aerospace and Liebherr-Aerospace also have a significant presence in Toulouse.