Toulouse (fra)

Toulouse

Toulouse ranks 167th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind New Delhi, Basel, and Long Beach, California. Memorable people born in Toulouse include Carlos Gardel, Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse, and Jean Dausset. Memorable people who died in Toulouse include Paul Sabatier, Just Fontaine, and Theodoric II. Toulouse has been the birth place of many soccer players, and politicians and the death place of many politicians, and philosophers. Toulouse is located in France.

Toulouse is a city in Southern France, the prefecture of the Haute-Garonne department and of the Occitania region. The city is on the banks of the River Garonne, 150 kilometres from the Mediterranean Sea, 230 km (143 mi) from the Atlantic Ocean and 680 km (420 mi) from Paris. It is the fourth-largest city in France after Paris, Marseille, and Lyon, with 511,684 inhabitants within its municipal boundaries (2022); its metropolitan area has a population of 1,513,396 inhabitants (2022). Toulouse is the central city of one of the 22 metropolitan councils of France. Between the 2014 and 2020 censuses, its metropolitan area was the third fastest growing among metropolitan areas larger than 500,000 inhabitants in France. Read more on Wikipedia