Coulommiers, Seine-et-Marne

Coulommiers (French pronunciation: [kulɔmje] ) is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France in north-central France.

Coulommiers
Commanderie of the Knights Templar
Location of Coulommiers
Coulommiers
Coulommiers
Coordinates: 48°49′29″N 3°06′24″E
CountryFrance
RegionÎle-de-France
DepartmentSeine-et-Marne
ArrondissementMeaux
CantonCoulommiers
IntercommunalityCA Coulommiers Pays de Brie
Government
  Mayor (20202026) Laurence Picard
Area
1
10.93 km2 (4.22 sq mi)
Population
 (2021)
15,250
  Density1,400/km2 (3,600/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
  Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
77131 /77120
Elevation66–156 m (217–512 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

It is also the name of a cheese of the Brie family produced around that city. Coulommiers station has rail connections to Tournan-en-Brie and Paris.

The town has a statue to Commandant Nicolas-Joseph Beaurepaire who, in 1792, killed himself rather than surrender Verdun to the Prussians.

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