Meaux

Meaux
Meaux
Subprefecture and commune
	Façade of the Meaux city hall (built in 1900)
	Coat of arms
	Location of Meaux
	Meaux Meaux
	Coordinates: 48°57′37″N 2°53′18″E / 48.9603°N 2.8883°E
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Seine-et-Marne
Arrondissement	Meaux
Canton	Meaux
Intercommunality	Pays de Meaux
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Jean-François Copé
Area 1	14.95 km2 (5.77 sq mi)
Population (2021)	55,616
• Density	3,700/km2 (9,600/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	77284 /77100
Elevation	39–107 m (128–351 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Meaux (French pronunciation: [mo] ^ⓘ) is a commune on the river Marne in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in the metropolitan area of Paris, France. It is 41.1 km (25.5 mi) east-northeast of the centre of Paris.

Meaux is, with Provins, Torcy and Fontainebleau, one of the four subprefectures (sous-préfectures) of the department of Seine-et-Marne, Melun being the prefecture. In France a subprefecture is the chef-lieu (the seat or administrative capital) of an arrondissement: Meaux is the subprefecture of the arrondissement of Meaux.^[3] It is also the chef-lieu of a smaller administrative division: the canton of Meaux. Finally, since its creation in 2003, Meaux has been the centre and the main town of an agglomeration community, the Communauté d'agglomération du Pays de Meaux.

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ Commune de Meaux (77284), INSEE, the French official statistics institute