Eure-et-Loir (Department, France)

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Administrative data

Code: 28
Region: Centre
Traditional provinces: Orléanais, Maine, Ile-de-France
Bordering departments: Eure, Loir-et-Cher, Loiret, Orne, Sarthe, Yvelines, Essonne

Area: 5,880 km²
Population (1995): 410,100 inhabitants

Préfecture: Chartres
Sous-préfectures: Châteaudun, Dreux, Nogent-le-Rotrou
Subdivisions: 4 arrondissements, 29 cantons, 402 communes.

The department is named after the rivers Eure ( 225 km), tributary of.Seine, and Loir (311 km), tributary of Sarthe.