Centre-Val de Loire
Indre-et-Loire
Arrondissement of Tours

Tours

Tours is the largest city in the region of , France. It is the prefecture of the department of . The commune of Tours had 136,463 inhabitants as of 2018 while the population of the whole metropolitan area was 516,973.
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  • Type: City with 138,000 residents
  • Description: city and commune in Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire, France
  • Also known as: “Tours, Centre”, “Tours, France”, and “Tours, Indre-et-Loire”
  • Postal codes: 37000, 37100, and 37200

Places of Interest

Highlights include Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours and Tours Railway Station.

Museum
Photo: Casper Moller, CC BY 2.0.
The is located in the bishop's former palace, near the , where it has been since 1910. It displays rich and varied collections, including that of painting which is one of the first in France both in quality and the diversity of the works presented.

Railway station
Tours station is a railway station serving the city of Tours, department, western . It is situated on the Paris–Bordeaux railway, the Tours–Saint-Nazaire railway, and the non-electrified Tours–Le Mans railway.

Church
Photo: Miralolotte23, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a Roman Catholic church located in Tours, , , and dedicated to Saint Gatianus. It is the seat of the Archbishops of Tours, the metropolitan cathedral of the Tours ecclesiastical province.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sanitas and Sainte-Radegonde-en-Touraine.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Tours

Latitude
47.39° or 47° 23′ 24″ north
Longitude
0.6889° or 0° 41′ 20″ east
Population
138,000
Elevation
52 metres (171 feet)
Name during the French Revolution
“La Réunion-du-Nord”
IATA airport code
TUF
United Nations Location Code
FR TUF
Open location code
8FV29MRQ+2H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26686468
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2972191
Wiki­data ID
Q288
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Tours” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Tours”
  • Albanian: “Tours”
  • Arabic: “تور”
  • Aragonese: “Tours”
  • Armenian: “Տուր (քաղաք)”
  • Armenian: “Տուր”
  • Arpitan: “Tours”
  • Asturian: “Tours”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tur”
  • Balinese: “Tours”
  • Bambara: “Tours”
  • Basque: “Tours”
  • Bavarian: “Tours”
  • Belarusian: “Тур (горад)”
  • Belarusian: “Тур”
  • Bengali: “তুর”
  • Breton: “Teurgn”
  • Breton: “Tour”
  • Breton: “Tours”
  • Bulgarian: “Тур”
  • Cajun French: “Tours”
  • Catalan: “Tors de Loira”
  • Catalan: “Tors”
  • Catalan: “Tours”
  • Cebuano: “Tours”
  • Central Kurdish: “توور”
  • Central Kurdish: “تووغ”
  • Chechen: “ТугӀ (гӀала)”
  • Chechen: “ТугӀ”
  • Chinese: “Tours”
  • Chinese: “图尔”
  • Chinese: “圖爾”
  • Chinese: “都爾”
  • Chuvash: “Тур”
  • Corsican: “Tours”
  • Croatian: “Tours”
  • Czech: “Tours”
  • Danish: “Tours”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Tours”
  • Dutch: “Tours (Indre-et-Loire)”
  • Dutch: “Tours”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تور (فرنسا)”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تور”
  • Esperanto: “Tours”
  • Esperanto: “Turo”
  • Estonian: “Tours”
  • Extremaduran: “Tours”
  • Faroese: “Tours”
  • Finnish: “Tours”
  • French: “Tours”
  • Friulian: “Tours”
  • Galician: “Tours”
  • Georgian: “ტური (საფრანგეთი)”
  • Georgian: “ტური”
  • German: “Tours”
  • Greek: “Τουρ”
  • Gujarati: “ટૂર્સ”
  • Hausa: “Tours”
  • Hausa: “Yawon buɗe ido”
  • Hebrew: “טור”
  • Hindi: “टुर”
  • Hungarian: “Tours”
  • Icelandic: “Tours”
  • Ido: “Tours”
  • Indonesian: “Tours”
  • Interlingua: “Tours”
  • Interlingue: “Tours”
  • Irish: “Tours”
  • Italian: “Tours”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Tours”
  • Japanese: “トゥール (アンドル＝エ＝ロワール県)”
  • Japanese: “トゥール”
  • Kabyle: “Tours”
  • Kalaallisut: “Tours”
  • Kannada: “ಟೂರ್ಸ್”
  • Kongo: “Tours”
  • Korean: “투르”
  • Kurdish: “Tours”
  • Ladin: “Tours”
  • Latin: “Augusta-Turonum”
  • Latin: “Turones”
  • Latin: “Turonum”
  • Latvian: “Tūra”
  • Ligurian: “Tours”
  • Limburgan: “Tours”
  • Lithuanian: “Tūras”
  • Low German: “Tours”
  • Luxembourgish: “Tours”
  • Macedonian: “Тур”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Tours”
  • Malagasy: “Tours”
  • Malay: “Tours”
  • Maltese: “Tours”
  • Marathi: “तुर, फ्रान्स”
  • Marathi: “तुर”
  • Mazanderani: “تور”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tours”
  • Minangkabau: “Tours”
  • Narom: “Touors”
  • Narom: “Tours”
  • Neapolitan: “Tours”
  • Nepali: “यात्रा”
  • Northern Frisian: “Tours”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tours”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tours”
  • Norwegian: “Tours”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tors”
  • Ossetian: “Тур (сахар)”
  • Ossetian: “Тур”
  • Papiamento: “Tours”
  • Persian: “تور”
  • Picard: “Tours”
  • Piemontese: “Tours”
  • Polish: “Tours”
  • Portuguese: “Tours”
  • Prussian: “Tours”
  • Romagnol: “Tours”
  • Romanian: “Tours”
  • Romansh: “Tours”
  • Russian: “Тур”
  • Sardinian: “Tours”
  • Scots: “Tours, Centre-Val de Loire”
  • Scots: “Tours, Centre”
  • Scots: “Tours”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Tours”
  • Serbian: “Tours”
  • Serbian: “Тур”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tours”
  • Sicilian: “Tours”
  • Silesian: “Tours”
  • Sinhala: “ටුවර්ස්”
  • Slovak: “Tours”
  • Slovenian: “Tours”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تور”
  • Spanish: “Tours”
  • Swahili: “Tours”
  • Swedish: “Tours”
  • Swiss German: “Tours”
  • Tagalog: “Tours”
  • Tajik: “Тур”
  • Tamil: “டூர்ஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Тур (шәһәр)”
  • Tatar: “Тур”
  • Telugu: “టూర్స్”
  • Thai: “ตูร์”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Tours”
  • Turkish: “Tours, Centre”
  • Turkish: “Tours, Fransa”
  • Turkish: “Tours, Indre-et-Loire”
  • Turkish: “Tours”
  • Twi: “Tours”
  • Ukrainian: “Тур”
  • Urdu: “تؤغ”
  • Urdu: “تور”
  • Uzbek: “Tours”
  • Venetian: “Tours”
  • Vietnamese: “Tours”
  • Vlaams: “Tours”
  • Volapük: “Tours”
  • Walloon: “Tours”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tours”
  • Welsh: “Tours”
  • Western Armenian: “Թուր”
  • Western Frisian: “Toers”
  • Western Frisian: “Tours”
  • Western Panjabi: “ٹورز”
  • Wolof: “Tours”
  • Wu Chinese: “图尔”
  • Yue Chinese: “圖爾”
  • Zulu: “Tours”
  • “Tours”

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