Sète

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Coordinates: 43°24′19″N 3°41′51″E / 43.405278, 3.6975

Administration
Commune of Sète Sète from Mont St-Clair.
Location

Country	France
Region	Languedoc-Roussillon
Department	Hérault
Arrondissement	Montpellier
Canton	Chief town of 2 cantons: Sète-1, Sète-2
Intercommunality	Communauté d'agglomération du Bassin de Thau
Mayor	François Commeinhes
Statistics
Elevation	0 m–176 m (avg. 4 m)
Land area^¹	24.21 km²
Population^² (2006)	43,400
- Density	1,792/km² (2006)
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	34301/ 34200
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
² Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once.

Sète (Seta in Occitan) is a commune of France, in the Hérault département. Known as the ‘Venice of Languedoc’, it is a port and a sea-side resort on the Mediterranean Sea. Its population at the 1999 census was 39,542.

1 History
2 Geography
3 Transport
4 Miscellaneous
5 External links

[edit] History

The initial village started growing with the completion of the Canal du Midi (1681). It was called Cette until 1927.

[edit] Geography

Sète - Canal Royal

Built upon and around Mont St Clair, Sète is situated on the south-eastern hub of the Bassin de Thau, an enclosed salt water lake used primarily for oyster and mussel fields. To its other side lies the Mediterranean.

[edit] Transport

Lighthouse in Sète.

Sète is the eastern starting point of the Canal du Midi, and the ending point of the Canal du Rhône à Sète. It is approximately 25 mins by train from Montpellier. Car ferries ply between Sète and Morocco.