Montpellier facts for kids

Montpellier
	Montpellier
Administration
Country	France
Region	Occitanie
Department	Hérault
Arrondissement	Montpellier
Intercommunality	Montpellier
Mayor	Hélène Mandroux-Colas; (2008–2014)
Statistics
Elevation	7–118 m (23–387 ft); (avg. 27 m or 89 ft*)
Land area1	56.88 km2 (21.96 sq mi)
Population2	255,080 (2009)
- Ranking	8th in France
- Density	4,485/km2 (11,620/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	34172/ 34000, 34070, 34080, 34090
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
	2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Montpellier is a city in south of France. About 280,000 people live there. It is the 8th largest city in France. It has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Csa in the Koeppen climate classification).

Education

The University of Montpellier is one of the oldest in the world.

Montpellier is twinned with:

Tlemcen, Algeria, since 2009 Lakewood, United States, since 1918 Louisville, United States, since 1955 Heidelberg, Germany, since 1961 Barcelona, Spain since 1963	Chengdu, China, since 1981 Tiberias, Israel, since 1983 Fes, Morocco since 2003 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil since 2008