Indre-et-Loire (Department, France)

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• Administrative data
• Flag of the former General Council
  • Banner of arms of Touraine
• Municipalities
  • Tours
  • Chinon
  • Joué-lès-Tours
  • Loches
  • Parçay-Meslay
  • Reignac-sur-Indre
  • Saint-Avertin
  • Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire
  • Sainte-Maure-de-Touraine
  • Sublaines
  • Truyes
  • Vernou-sur-Brenne
• Intermunicipal Authorities

See also:

• France
• France: Metropolitan departments
• Clickable map of France (departments)

Administrative data

Code: 37
Region: Centre-Val de Loire
Traditional provinces: Touraine, Poitou, Anjou
Bordering departments: Indre, Loir-et-Cher, Maine-et-Loire, Sarthe, Vienne

Area: 6,127 km²
Population (2016): 606,223 inhabitants

Préfecture: Tours
Sous-préfectures: Chinon, Loches
Subdivisions: 3 arrondissements, 19 cantons, 272 municipalities.

The department is named after rivers Indre (265 km) and Loire (1,020 km).

Ivan Sache, 11 April 2019

Flag of the former General Council

Flag of the former General Council of Indre-et-Loire, left, 2005-2015, right, before 2005 - Images by Olivier Touzeau, 25 March 2019

The flag of the former General Council of Indre-et-Loire was white with the logo of the General Council, in two successive versions.

Pascal Vagnat, 13 June 2010

Banner of arms of Touraine

A banner of the traditional arms of Touraine is sometimes observed locally.

Olivier Touzeau, 5 March 2023