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Encyclopedia > Lye, Indre
Commune of Lye
Location
Location
Longitude 01° 28' 28" East
Latitude 47° 13' 43" North
Administration
Country France
Région Centre
Département Indre
Arrondissement Arrondissement de Châteauroux
Canton Canton de Valençay
Mayor Pierre Riauté
Statistics
Altitude 76 m–136 m
(avg. 70 m)
Land area¹ 24,77 km²
Population²
(1999)
802
 - Density (1999) 32/km²
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code 36107/ 36600
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq. mi. or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
² Population sans doubles comptes: single count of residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel).
France

Lye is a commune of the Indre département, in France. Longitude, sometimes denoted by the Greek letter λ, describes the location of a place on Earth east or west of a north-south line called the Prime Meridian. ... Latitude, usually denoted symbolically by the Greek letter φ, gives the location of a place on Earth north or south of the Equator. ... This is an alphabetical list of countries of the world, including both internationally recognized and generally unrecognized independent states, inhabited dependent territories, as well as areas of special sovereignty. ... France is divided into 26 régions: 21 of these are in the continental part of metropolitan France, one is Corse on the island of Corsica (although strictly speaking Corse is in fact a territorial collectivity, not a région, but is referred to as a région in common... Capital Orléans Land area¹ 39,151 km² Regional President Michel Sapin (PS) (1998 to 2000, and since 2004) Population  - Jan. ... The départements (or departments) are administrative units of France and many former French colonies, roughly analogous to British counties. ... Indre is a département in the center of France named after the Indre River. ... The 100 French départements are divided into 342 arrondissements. ... The canton is an administrative division of France. ... A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning larger,greater) is in modern times the title of the highest ranking municipal officer, who discharges certain judicial and administrative functions, in many systems an elected politician, who serves as chief executive and/or ceremonial official of many types of municipalities. ... INSEE is the French abbreviation for the French National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies (French: Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques). ... Postal codes were introduced in France in 1972, when La Poste introduced automated sorting. ... Estuaries and coastal waters are among the most productive ecosystems on Earth, providing numerous ecological, economic, cultural, and aesthetic benefits. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_France. ... Indre is a département in the center of France named after the Indre River. ...


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