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Blois

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Blois is a commune in west-central France and the capital of the Loir-et-Cher department in the Centre-Val de Loire region, on the banks of the lower Loire river between the cities of Orleans and Tours.

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Population
47,219 1
Elevation Band
Lowland 2
Climate Zone
Temperate 3
Time Zone
UTC+01:00 4
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Source Madame Guyon (Wikipedia)lead paragraph
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She was imprisoned several times, including in the Bastille, and spent her later years at Blois.
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1. Blois (Wikidata)
P1082 (population)
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population 47,219 (2023)
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2. Open-Meteo: Open-Meteo Elevation API: elevation at Blois coordinates
Open-MeteoJSON elevation
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"elevation": [ 109.0 ]
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3. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 47.75, 1.25
Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 47.75, 1.25
47.75 1.25 Cfb
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4. GeoNames: Blois - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 3032213, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
Quote, cities500 record 3032213, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
47.59432 1.32912 P PPLA2 FR 24 41 411 41018 53660 109 Europe/Paris
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Blois (Wikipedia)
In Group: Cities of Western Europe (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregionView the Source
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