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Code: 41
Region: Centre
Traditional provinces:
Orléanais,
Touraine
Bordering departments: Cher,
Eure-et-Loir,
Indre,
Indre-et-Loire,
Loiret, Sarthe
Area: 6,343 km2
Population (1995): 312,500 inhabitants
Préfecture: Blois
Sous-préfectures: Romorantin-Lanthenay,
Vendôme
Subdivisions: 3 arrondissements, 30 cantons, 291 communes.
The department is named after the rivers Loir (311 km), tributary of Sarthe, and Cher (350 km), tributary of Loire.