Toulouse | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 06/05/2019

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00:02:57 1 Geography
00:03:17 1.1 Hydrography
00:03:34 1.2 Climate
00:03:58 2 History
00:04:07 2.1 Early history
00:06:04 2.2 County of Toulouse
00:08:09 2.3 Within the Kingdom of France
00:10:58 2.4 Within the French Republic
00:12:28 3 Population
00:14:32 4 Government and politics
00:14:42 4.1 Toulouse Métropole
00:16:19 4.2 Local politics
00:19:56 4.3 Mayors
00:20:05 5 Sights
00:21:17 5.1 Religious buildings
00:22:00 6 Gallery
00:22:12 7 Economy
00:23:10 8 Education
00:23:29 8.1 Colleges and universities
00:26:24 8.2 Primary and secondary schools
00:26:55 9 Transport
00:27:05 9.1 Train
00:27:20 9.2 Metro
00:28:39 9.3 Tramway
00:29:08 9.4 Bicycle
00:29:31 9.5 Airports
00:29:52 9.6 Toulouse public transportation statistics
00:30:42 10 Communications
00:31:17 11 Culture
00:33:04 12 Sport
00:34:04 13 Notable people
00:36:15 14 International relations
00:36:25 14.1 Twin towns and sister cities
00:36:38 14.2 Other cooperations
00:36:52 15 See also



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Toulouse (, French: [tuluz] (listen); Occitan: Tolosa [tuˈluzɔ]; Latin: Tolosa) is the capital of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the region of Occitanie. The city is on the banks of the River Garonne, 150 kilometres (93 miles) 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, with 466,297 inhabitants as of January 2014. In France, Toulouse is called the "Pink City" (La Ville Rose).
The Toulouse Metro area, with 1,312,304 inhabitants as of 2014, is France's fourth-largest metropolitan area, after Paris, Lyon and Marseille, and ahead of Lille and Bordeaux.
Toulouse is the centre of the European aerospace industry, with the headquarters of Airbus (formerly EADS), the Galileo positioning system, the SPOT satellite system, ATR and the Aerospace Valley. It also hosts the European headquarters of Intel and CNES's Toulouse Space Centre (CST), the largest space centre in Europe. Thales Alenia Space, ATR, SAFRAN, Liebherr-Aerospace and Astrium Satellites also have a significant presence in Toulouse.
The University of Toulouse is one of the oldest in Europe (founded in 1229) and, with more than 103,000 students, it is the fourth-largest university campus in France, after the universities of Paris, Lyon and Lille.The air route between Toulouse–Blagnac and Paris Orly is the busiest in Europe, transporting 2.4 million passengers in 2014. According to the rankings of L'Express and Challenges, Toulouse is the most dynamic French city.The city was the capital of the Visigothic Kingdom in the 5th century and the capital of the province of Languedoc in the Late Middle Ages and early modern period (provinces were abolished during the French Revolution), making it the unofficial capital of the cultural region of Occitania (Southern France). It is now the capital of the Occitanie region, the second largest region in Metropolitan France.
A city with unique architecture made of pinkish terracotta bricks, which earned it the nickname la Ville Rose ("the Pink City"), Toulouse counts two UNESCO World Heritage Sites, the Canal du Midi (designated in 1996 and shared with other cities), and the Basilica of St. Sernin, the largest remaining Romanesque building in Europe, designated in 1998 because of its significance to the Santiago de Compostela pilgrimage route.