Tours is a city located in the centre-west of
France. It is the administrative centre of the
Indre-et-Loire department and the largest city in the
Centre-Val de Loire region of France (although it is not the capital, which is the region's second-largest city,
Orléans). In 2012, the city of Tours had 134,978 inhabitants, while the population of the whole metropolitan area was 483,744.