Indre
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| Indre | |
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| Coat of arms of the Indre department | |
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| Administration | |
| Department number: | 36 |
| Region: | Centre |
| Prefecture: | Châteauroux |
| Subprefectures: | Le Blanc La Châtre Issoudun |
| Arrondissements: | 4 |
| Cantons: | 26 |
| Communes: | 247 |
| President of the General Council: | Louis Pinton |
| Statistics | |
| Population | Ranked 81st |
| -1999 | 231,139 |
| Population density: | 34/km2 |
| Land area¹: | 6791 km2 |
| ¹ French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, and lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km2. | |
This article is about the French department. For other uses, see Indre (disambiguation).
Indre is a department in the center of France named after the Indre River. The inhabitants of the department are called Indriens.
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[edit] History
Indre is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790. It was created from part of the former province of Berry.
[edit] Geography
Indre is part of the current region of Centre (Val de Loire) and is surrounded by the departments of Indre-et-Loire, Loir-et-Cher, Cher, Creuse, and Vienne.
[edit] Tourism
The Indre has two villages classified among the most beautiful villages of France: Saint-Benoît-du-Sault and Gargilesse-Dampierre.
[edit] See also
- Cantons of the Indre department
- Communes of the Indre department
- Arrondissements of the Indre department
- France
[edit] External links
Media related to Indre (department) at Wikimedia Commons- (French) Prefecture website
- (French) General Council website
- (English) Indre at the Open Directory Project
- (French) http://www.indrenature.net/
