Portrait of Montpellier
Map of France with marking Montpellier 
Antigone city district in Montpellier (Picture: Binder) 
New city hall of Montpellier (Picture: Stadt Montpellier) 
Château de Flaugergues (Picture: Château de Flaugergues ) 
Place de la Canourgue (Picture: Brossard) 
Cathedrale Saint Pierre (Picture: Binder) 
Château d'Eau (Picture: Binder) 
Promenade du Peyrou (Picture: Binder) 
Montpellier opera at the Place de la Comédie (Picture: Binder)
| Twinned with Heidelberg | 1. | since 1961 |
| Location | 2. | Southern France, only a few kilometers from the Mediterranean coast, between Marseille and Barcelona; capital of the département of Hérault in the Occitania region. |
| Population | 3. | about 295,000 |
| Time difference | 4. | None |
| Currency | 5. | Euro |
| Official language | 6. | French |
| University/students | 7. | The University of Montpellier ist structured in three different parts of departments. At the university are 48.000 students enrolled and about 4.800 people employed. Moreover there are six business schools in Montpellier. |
| Key industries | 8. | Tourism, education, research and high tech |
| Noteworthy | 9. | Not least because of its high quality of life, Montpellier is the fastest-growing city in France. Its population has more than doubled in size since 1960. |
| Special feature | 10. | The two cities were awarded the De Gaulle-Adenauer Prize for Heidelberg House in Montpellier (since 1966) and Montpellier House in Heidelberg (since 1986). |
| Sister cities | 11. | In addition to Heidelberg there are twelve more sister cities of Montpellier: Louisville (USA); Kos (Greece); Barcelona (Spain); Chengdu (China); Tiberias (Israel); Fès (Morocco); Sherbrooke (Canada); Tlemcen (Algeria); Bethlehem (Palestine); Rio de Janeiro (Brazil); Palermo (Italy); Obninsk (Russian Federation) |
