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Stains (French pronunciation: [stɛ̃] (listen)) is a commune in the northern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 11.6 km (7.2 mi) from the center of Paris.^{[citation needed]}

Stains
Commune
Landscaping in Stains
Coat of arms
Paris and inner ring departments
Location of Stains
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Coordinates: 48°57′00″N 2°23′00″E
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Seine-Saint-Denis
Arrondissement	Saint-Denis
Canton	Saint-Denis-2
Intercommunality	Grand Paris
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Azzédine Taïbi[1]
Area 1	5.39 km2 (2.08 sq mi)
Population  (Jan. 2019)[2]	38,285
• Density	7,100/km2 (18,000/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	93072 /93240
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Heraldry

	Argent with two wavy vert fesses, a chief Gules charged with three ears of wheat stalked and leaves with gold
motto: semina metes (sow and you shall reap)

Population

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 1,080 —     1800 987 −1.28% 1806 809 −3.26% 1821 829 +0.16% 1831 946 +1.33% 1836 936 −0.21% 1841 993 +1.19% 1846 1,046 +1.05% 1851 932 −2.28% 1856 1,038 +2.18% 1861 1,280 +4.28% 1866 1,571 +4.18% 1872 1,448 −1.35% 1876 1,577 +2.16% 1881 1,868 +3.44% 1886 2,288 +4.14% 1891 2,500 +1.79% 1896 2,707 +1.60%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 2,959 +1.80% 1906 3,102 +0.95% 1911 3,584 +2.93% 1921 5,641 +4.64% 1926 10,081 +12.31% 1931 14,539 +7.60% 1936 17,604 +3.90% 1946 18,382 +0.43% 1954 19,028 +0.43% 1962 27,503 +4.71% 1968 32,169 +2.65% 1975 35,545 +1.44% 1982 36,079 +0.21% 1990 34,879 −0.42% 1999 32,839 −0.67% 2007 34,663 +0.68% 2012 36,155 +0.85% 2017 38,720 +1.38%
Source: EHESS[3] and INSEE (1968-2017)[4]

Transport

Stains is served by Pierrefitte – Stains station on Paris RER line D. This station is located at the border between the commune of Stains and the commune of Pierrefitte-sur-Seine, on the Pierrefitte-sur-Seine side of the border.^{[citation needed]}

Education

Schools in Stains:[5]

• 11 public preschools/nursery schools (maternelles)
• 13 public elementary schools
• 3 public junior high schools: Barbara, Joliot Curie, and Pablo Neruda
• 1 public senior high school/sixth-form college: Lycée polyvalent Maurice Utrillo
• 1 private junior high school: Collège privé Sainte-Marie.

Monuments

• Château de Stains (transl. Castle of Stains, destroyed in the War of 1870)
• Cité-jardin de Stains (transl. Garden City of Stains)
• Town hall of Stains
• Château de la Motte (transl. Castle of La Motte, destroyed in 1819 with the exception of a few outbuildings)[6]
• L'église Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption de Stains (Church of Our Lady of the Assumption of Stains)

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  Château de Stains in 1870
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  Town Hall of Stains in the 1920s.
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  Detail of the pediment of the Château de La Motte.

Notable people

• Éric Junior Dina Ebimbe, footballer

Twin towns — Sister cities

Stains is twinned with:[7]

• Saalfeld ( Germany ) since May 4, 1964: Twinning for joint projects of peace and collaboration between the German and French people.
• Cheshunt ( United Kingdom ) since 1965: Traditional twinning
• Luco dei Marsi ( Italy ) since December 15, 2000: Multilateral collaboration in the fields of sport, tourism, environment and development in the field of NICTs, allowing the enhancement of reciprocal cultural wealth.
• Am'ari ( Palestine ) since January 15, 1999: Multilateral cooperation with the Palestinian refugee camp of Am'ari in the West Bank, in solidarity with the peace forces in the region.
• Mengueme ( Cameroon ) since 2000: Cooperation agreement on health, education, sanitation, rural electrification, ecosystem preservation, development of agriculture, livestock but also culture, sport and tourism.
• Figuig ( Morocco ) since October 18, 2002: Cooperation agreement on youth citizenship, cultural exchanges, health and prevention, local development, town planning and the environment.

See also

• Communes of the Seine-Saint-Denis department

References

External links

• Official website
• Official website (in French)

На других языках

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[de] Stains

Stains ist eine französische Gemeinde im Département Seine-Saint-Denis in der Region Île-de-France im Kanton Saint-Denis-2. Die Einwohner werden Stanois genannt.

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- [en] Stains, Seine-Saint-Denis

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[es] Stains

Stains es una comuna (municipio) de Francia, en la región de Isla de Francia, departamento de Sena-San Denis, en el distrito de Saint-Denis. La comuna forma ella sola el cantón de su nombre.[3]

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