Isère
Isère ( , ; frp, Isera; oc, Isèra, ) is a landlocked department in the southeastern French region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Named after the river Isère, it had a population of 1,271,166 in 2019.department in southeastern
France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...
. Part of the
Grenoble urban unit The urban unit of Grenoble (french: unité urbaine de Grenoble) is a French urban unit centred on the city of Grenoble. An urban unit is a contiguously built-up area with at least 2,000 inhabitants, according to the definition by the French statisti ...
suburb
A suburb (more broadly suburban area) is an area within a metropolitan area, which may include commercial and mixed-use, that is primarily a residential area. A suburb can exist either as part of a larger city/urban area or as a separ ...
of the city of
Grenoble
lat, Gratianopolis
, commune status = Prefecture and commune
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Schmalkalden
Schmalkalden () is a town in the Schmalkalden-Meiningen district, in the southwest of the state of Thuringia, Germany. It is on the southern slope of the Thuringian Forest at the Schmalkalde river, a tributary to the Werra. , the town had a p ...
, Germany (1963)
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Alpignano
Alpignano (; pms, Alpignan ) is a '' comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about west of Turin on the Dora Riparia in the Val di Susa plain.
Twin towns – sister cities
Alpignano is ...
, Italy (1971)
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Sommatino
Sommatino (; Sicilian: Summatinu, ) is a ''town'' (municipality) in the Province of Caltanissetta in the Italian region Sicily, located about southeast of Palermo and about southwest of Caltanissetta.
Economy
Until the early 1990s the econ ...
, Italy (1991)
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Parc naturel régional du Vercors
The Vercors Regional Natural Park (French: ''Parc naturel régional du Vercors'') is a protected area of forested mountains in the Rhône-Alpes region of southeastern France.
Geography
Set upon a limestone plateau south of Grenoble, the park ext ...