Title: Sélestat Content: Sélestat is a commune in north-eastern France, in the Bas-Rhin department, of which it is a subprefecture. It is in the Grand Est region. The commmune is in the historical and cultural region of Alsace. ==Geography== Sélestat is at the very centre of Alsace, near the limit separating the Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin departments. The commune is on the Alsace plains, a narrow, very fertile area that stretches between the Rhine and the Vosges mountains. The Ill river flows parallel to the Rhine and crosses the town of Sélestat. Another river in the commune is the Giessen, a left tributary of the Ill and that runs through the commune from west to east. The commune has an area of . Its average altitude is ; at the city hall, the altitude is . The distances from Sélestat to other cities are: * Paris, the national capital - ; * Strasbourg, the regional capital - ; * Marseille - ; * Lyon - ; * Reims - ; * Bordeaux - ; * Toulouse - ; * Montpellier - ; * Nice - .  The commune of Sélestat is surrounded by the following communes: ===Climate=== The climate of Sélestat, in the Köppen climate classification, is Cfb - Oceanic climate with template summers. ==Population== The inhabitants of Sélestat are known, in French, as Sélestadiens (women: Sélestadiennes). With a population of 19,546, Sélestat has a population density of inhabitants/km2. Evolution of the population in Sélestat Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.7) id:sfondo value:rgb(1,1,1) id:barra value:rgb(0.6,0.7,0.8) ImageSize = width:500 height:373 PlotArea = left:50 bottom:30 top:30 right:30 DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:22000 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:2000 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:1000 start:0 BackgroundColors = canvas:sfondo BarData= bar:a text:1968 bar:b text:1975 bar:c text:1982 bar:d text:1990 bar:e text:1999 bar:f text:2006 bar:g text:2014 PlotData= color:barra width:30 align:left bar:a from:0 till: 14635 bar:b from:0 till: 15248 bar:c from:0 till: 15112 bar:d from:0 till: 15538 bar:e from:0 till: 17179 bar:f from:0 till: 19459 bar:g from:0 till: 19546 PlotData= bar:a at: 14635 fontsize:S text: 14,635 shift:(-12,12) bar:b at: 15248 fontsize:S text: 15,248 shift:(-15,5) bar:c at: 15112 fontsize:S text: 15,112 shift:(-15,5) bar:d at: 15538 fontsize:S text: 15,538 shift:(-15,5) bar:e at: 17179 fontsize:S text: 17,179 shift:(-15,5) bar:f at: 19459 fontsize:S text: 19,459 shift:(-15,8) bar:g at: 19546 fontsize:S text: 19,546 shift:(-15,8) ==Administration== Sélestat is a subprefecture in the Bas-Rhin department since 1806. It is the capital of the Sélestat-Erstein arrondissement and is also the administrative centre  of the canton of Sélestat formed by 29 communes, with 55,877 inhabitants (2014). === Twin towns === Sélestat is twinned withː * Montignies- sur-Sambre, Belgium, since 1959 (merged with Charleroi in 1977) * Waldkirch, Germany, since 1966 * Grenchen, Switzerland, since 1988 * Dornbirn, Austria, since 2006 ==Gallery== File:Sélestat HôtelVille a2.JPG|Town hall of Sélestat. File:Selestat Tour de l’horloge.jpg|The Clock Tower. File:Sélestat SteFoy112.jpg|Sainte-Foy church. File:Sélestat plVictoire a.JPG|Small shops in the old town. File:Quai de l'Ill, Sélestat.JPG|The Ill river in Sélestat. ==Related pages== * Arrondissement of Sélestat-Erstein * Communes of the Bas- Rhin department