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Saint-Amand-Montrond

Field	Value
name	Saint-Amand-Montrond
commune status	Subprefecture and commune
image	Église Saint-Amand à Saint-Amand-Montrond.jpg
caption	The church of Saint-Amand, in Saint-Amand-Montrond
image coat of arms	Blason ville fr Saint-Amand-Montrond (Cher).svg
arrondissement	Saint-Amand-Montrond
canton	Saint-Amand-Montrond
INSEE	18197
postal code	18200
mayor	Emmanuel Riotte
term	2020–2026
intercommunality	CC Cœur de France
coordinates
elevation m	162
elevation min m	148
elevation max m	312
area km2	20.17
population
population date
population footnotes

|image coat of arms = Blason ville fr Saint-Amand-Montrond (Cher).svg

Saint-Amand-Montrond () is a commune in the Cher department in the Centre-Val de Loire region of France and the historical province of Bourbonnais about 26 mi southeast of Bourges, in the basin of the eastern banks of the Cher which separates it from the commune of Orval.

A small river, the Marmande, joins the Cher there, and the canal de Berry crosses the commune from southeast to southwest.

Population

|1968 |11495 |1975 |12278 |1982 |12451 |1990 |11937 |1999 |11447 |2007 |11464 |2012 |10518 |2017 |9437

Sights

Château de Montrond, a thirteenth-century castle

Notable people

Jean-Baptiste Lemire (1867–1945), composer.
Louis Lecoin (1888–1971), pacifist and libertarian, was born in Saint-Amand-Montrond.
Maurice Papon (1910–2007), mayor of Saint-Amand-Montrond (1971–1983) and collaborator during World War II.
Serge Vinçon (1949–2007), college professor and politician was born here.
Jean Godin des Odonais, cartographer and explorer, lived here.
Julian Alaphilippe and his younger brother Bryan Alaphilippe, both cyclists, are from here.
Érick Jacquin, French chef naturalized Brazilian, was born here.

Tour de France

Cycling: The Tour de France has finished in the town three times. In 2001, it was the finishing line of a 61 km individual time trial from Montluçon. The stage was won by American Lance Armstrong of Discovery Channel Cycling Team. It featured again in the 2008 edition, again as a finish for an individual time trial. German Stefan Schumacher won the 53 km long stage from Cérilly. In 2013 stage 13 finished there from Tours and was won by British sprinter Mark Cavendish.

Twin towns

GER Nottuln, in Germany
POL Otwock, Poland
ECU Riobamba, Ecuador

Climate

|Jan record high C = 20.2 |Feb record high C = 25.1 |Mar record high C = 27.8 |Apr record high C = 29.9 |May record high C = 33.8 |Jun record high C = 39.2 |Jul record high C = 39.2 |Aug record high C = 41.0 |Sep record high C = 35.4 |Oct record high C = 29.2 |Nov record high C = 24.1 |Dec record high C = 19.2 |Jan record low C = -12.0 |Feb record low C = -13.3 |Mar record low C = -11.4 |Apr record low C = -3.5 |May record low C = -0.1 |Jun record low C = 4.7 |Jul record low C = 7.2 |Aug record low C = 5.0 |Sep record low C = 1.3 |Oct record low C = -6.3 |Nov record low C = -8.8 |Dec record low C = -11.7 |access-date=21 November 2024}}}}

References

(13 September 2022). "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises.
[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/4515315?geo=COM-18197#ancre-POP_T1 Population en historique depuis 1968], INSEE

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