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Clermont-Ferrand

Prefecture and commune in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 24, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Clermont-Ferrand is a city and commune of France, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, with a population of 146,351 (2023). Its metropolitan area had 510,685 inhabitants in 2023. It is the prefecture (capital) of the Puy-de-Dôme département. Julien Bony is its current mayor.

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The public source identifies “Clermont-Ferrand” as prefecture and commune in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Clermont-Ferrand, Prefecture and commune.

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This entry incorporates text from “Clermont-Ferrand” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.