en Coulommiers, Seine-et-Marne

Coulommiers
Coulommiers
Commune
	Commanderie of the Knights Templar
	Coat of arms
	Location of Coulommiers
	Coulommiers Coulommiers
	Coordinates: 48°49′29″N 3°06′24″E / 48.8247°N 3.1068°E
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Seine-et-Marne
Arrondissement	Meaux
Canton	Coulommiers
Intercommunality	CA Coulommiers Pays de Brie
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Laurence Picard
Area 1	10.93 km2 (4.22 sq mi)
Population (2022)	15,696
• Density	1,400/km2 (3,700/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	77131 /77120
Elevation	66–156 m (217–512 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Coulommiers (French pronunciation: [kulɔmje] ^ⓘ) is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France in north-central France.

It is also the name of a cheese of the Brie family produced around that city. Coulommiers station has rail connections to Tournan-en-Brie and Paris.

The town has a statue to Commandant Nicolas-Joseph Beaurepaire who, in 1792, killed himself rather than surrender Verdun to the Prussians.^[3]

Demographics

Inhabitants of Coulommiers are called Columériens.

Coulommiers was twinned with Leighton Buzzard in 1958^[5] and with Titisee-Neustadt in 1971. The twinning was renewed in 1982.

Coulommiers was selected to be the first town in France to go fully digital for its terrestrial television, with analog switch-off in January 2009.

André Roussimoff, better known as André the Giant, professional wrestler and actor (though was billed as hailing from "Grenoble, in the French Alps)
Nicolas-Joseph Beaurepaire, military officer

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
^ "Populations de référence 2022" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 19 December 2024.
^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Coulommiers". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 308.
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
^ "British towns twinned with French towns". Archant Community Media Ltd. Archived from the original on 2013-07-05. Retrieved 2013-07-11.

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