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Villars is a commune in the Loire department of France, situated within the arrondissement of Saint-Étienne. It lies in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region and shares borders with La Fouillouse, L'Étrat, Saint-Étienne, and Saint-Genest-Lerpt. The town’s postal code is 42390, and it is associated with the canton of Saint-Étienne-4.
The commune covers an area of 5.72 square kilometers and has an elevation of 600 meters above sea level. Its population is recorded as 8,494, comprising 3,767 males and 4,203 females. Villars is twinned with Halberstadt and Torredembarra.
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Place details
- Locality
- Villars
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Population
- 8,709
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Country
- France
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Department
- Loire
- Arrondissement
- Saint-Étienne
- Canton
- Saint-Étienne-4
- Intercommunality
- Saint-Étienne Métropole
- Mayor 2020 2026
- Jordan Da Silva
- Area
- 5.72 km (2.21 sq mi)
- Population 2023
- 7,664
- Density
- 1,340/km (3,470/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Insee postal code
- 42330 /42390
- Elevation
- 428–600 m (1,404–1,969 ft) , (avg. 480 m or 1,570 ft)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- commune of France
- Official name
- Villars
- Country
- France
- Located in
- arrondissement of Saint-Étienne
- Population
- 7664
- Area
- 5.72
- Elevation
- 485
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Saint-Priest-en-Jarez
- Official website
- www.villars.fr
- Image
- Vil.JPG
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- twinned administrative body
- Torredembarra
- Commons category
- Villars (Loire)
- postal code
- 42390
- different from
- Villars
- associated electoral district
- canton of Saint-Étienne-4
- male population
- 3767
- female population
- 4203
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- phone number
- +33-4-77-91-11-20
- fax number
- +33-4-77-93-80-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Villars ( French pronunciation: [vilaʁ]) is a commune in the Loire department in central France.
Villars is a former mining town.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Villars” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.