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Sarthe
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| Coat of arms of the Sarthe department | |
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| Department number: | 72 |
| Region: | Pays de la Loire |
| Prefecture: | Le Mans |
| Subprefectures: | La Flèche Mamers |
| Arrondissements: | 3 |
| Cantons: | 40 |
| Communes: | 375 |
| President of the General Council: | Roland du Luart |
| Statistics | |
| Population | Ranked 47th |
| -1999 | 529,851 |
| Population density: | 85/km² |
| Land area¹: | 6206 km² |
| ¹ French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, and lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km². | |
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Sarthe is a French department, named after the Sarthe River.
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The department was created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790, pursuant to the law of December 22, 1789, starting from a part of province of Maine which divided into two departments, the Sarthe and the Mayenne.[1]
The department of Sarthe forms part of the region Pays-de-la-Loire. It borders on the departments of Orne, Eure-et-Loir, Loir-et-Cher, Indre-et-Loire, Maine-et-Loire and Mayenne.
- Cantons of the Sarthe department
- Communes of the Sarthe department
- Arrondissements of the Sarthe department
- (French) Prefecture
- (French) General Council
- (French) Sarthe information
- (French) Sarthe on Wikitravel]
- (French) Physical and climatic properties of Sarthe
Ain • Aisne • Allier • Alpes-de-Haute-Provence • Hautes-Alpes • Alpes-Maritimes • Ardèche • Ardennes • Ariège • Aube • Aude • Aveyron • Bouches-du-Rhône • Calvados • Cantal • Charente • Charente-Maritime • Cher • Corrèze • Corse-du-Sud • Haute-Corse • Côte-d'Or • Côtes-d'Armor • Creuse • Dordogne • Doubs • Drôme • Eure • Eure-et-Loir • Finistère • Gard • Haute-Garonne • Gers • Gironde • Hérault • Ille-et-Vilaine • Indre • Indre-et-Loire • Isère • Jura • Landes • Loir-et-Cher • Loire • Haute-Loire • Loire-Atlantique • Loiret • Lot • Lot-et-Garonne • Lozère • Maine-et-Loire • Manche • Marne • Haute-Marne • Mayenne • Meurthe-et-Moselle • Meuse • Morbihan • Moselle • Nièvre • Nord • Oise • Orne • Pas-de-Calais • Puy-de-Dôme • Pyrénées-Atlantiques • Hautes-Pyrénées • Pyrénées-Orientales • Bas-Rhin • Haut-Rhin • Rhône • Haute-Saône • Saône-et-Loire • Sarthe • Savoie • Haute-Savoie • Paris • Seine-Maritime • Seine-et-Marne • Yvelines • Deux-Sèvres • Somme • Tarn • Tarn-et-Garonne • Var • Vaucluse • Vendée • Vienne • Haute-Vienne • Vosges • Yonne • Territoire de Belfort • Essonne • Hauts-de-Seine • Seine-Saint-Denis • Val-de-Marne • Val-d'Oise • Overseas departments and territories: Guadeloupe • Martinique • French Guiana • Réunion
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