Le Mans

Le Mans is a commune. It is found in the Pays de la Loire region in the Sarthe department in the west of France.

Le Mans is a city in France. It has about 143,000 inhabitants. It takes about one hour to go to Paris by TGV.

Sport
 Le Mans is the start of the seventh stage of the 2011 Tour de France.
 The city is well known for the 24-hour car race of Le Mans.

Sister cities
Le Mans is twinned with:
  Bolton, England, United Kingdom
  Haouza, Western Sahara
  Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
  Rostov-on-Don, Rostov Oblast, Russia
  Suzuka, Japan
  Volos, Greece
  Xianyang, Shaanxi, China
  Alexandria, Egypt

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