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Coulommiers

Commanderie of the Knights Templar
	Commune of Coulommiers; ; Commanderie of the Knights Templar
	Location
Coordinates	48°48′59″N 3°5′5″E / 48.81639°N 3.08472°E
Administration
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Seine-et-Marne
Arrondissement	Meaux
Canton	Coulommiers
Intercommunality	Brie des Templiers
Mayor	Franck Riester; (2008–2014)
Statistics
Elevation	66–156 m (220–510 ft)
Land area1	10.93 km2 (4.22 sq mi)
Population2	14,200 (2006)
- Density	1,299 /km2 (3,360 /sq mi)
	Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	77131/ 77120
	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: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Coordinates: 48°48′59″N 3°5′5″E / 48.81639°N 3.08472°E / 48.81639; 3.08472

Coulommiers is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France in north-central France.

It is also the name of a cheese of the Brie family produced in and around that city.

[edit] Demographics

Inhabitants of Coulommiers are called Columériens.

[edit] People

Wrestler André the Giant was born in the commune.

[edit] Twin towns

Coulommiers was twinned with Leighton Buzzard in 1958. The twinning was renewed in 1982.

[edit] Miscellaneous

Coulommiers has been selected to be the first town in France to go fully digital for its terrestrial television, with analog switch-off in January 2009.