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Place Stanislas
Country	France
Region	Grand Est
Department	Meurthe-et-Moselle
Arrondissement	Nancy
Intercommunality	Communauté urbaine du Grand Nancy
Area ¹	15.01 km² (5.80 sq mi)
Population (2012)	105,067
• Density	6,999.8/km² (18,129/sq mi)
Demonym(s)	Nancéiens
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	54395 /54000
Elevation	188–253 m (617–830 ft) (avg. 212 m or 696 ft)
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Nancy is a commune. It is the prefecture of the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in the Lorraine region. It was formerly the capital of the old Duchy of Lorraine.

Nancy has an oceanic climate (Cfb in the Koeppen climate classification).

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Sister cities

Nancy is twinned with:

Newcastle, United Kingdom, since 1954 Liège, Belgium, since 1954 Karlsruhe, Germany, since 1955	Padua, Italy, since 1964 Kanazawa, Japan, since 1973 Kiryat Shmona, Israel, since 1984	Lublin, Poland, since 1988 Cincinnati, United States, since 1991

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