Ernée

Ernée is a commune in the Mayenne department in north-western France.

Ernée
Commune
A general view of Ernée
Coat of arms
Location of Ernée
Ernée
Ernée
Coordinates: 48°17′51″N 0°55′53″W
CountryFrance
RegionPays de la Loire
DepartmentMayenne
ArrondissementMayenne
CantonErnée
Government
 • Mayor (2017–2020) Jacqueline Arcanger
Area
1
36.53 km2 (14.10 sq mi)
Population
 (2017-01-01)[1]
5,731
 • Density160/km2 (410/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
53096 /53500
Elevation107–200 m (351–656 ft)
(avg. 142 m or 466 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

It is named after the River Ernée, which runs through the town and is situated about halfway between the towns of Laval and Fougères. Ernée is home to a purpose built motocross track, which has been used in the Motocross World Championships and Motocross des Nations.[2]

Neighboring communes

The commune is bordered by the communes of Montenay, Saint-Pierre-des-Landes, Vautorte, La Pellerine, Saint-Hilaire-du-Maine, Saint-Denis-de-Gastines.

International relations
See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in France

Twin towns — Sister cities

Ernée is twinned with:

gollark: It's an "autonomous commune" in... Seattle or something.
gollark: It's apparently big enough that you would need something like 20 high-end compute GPUs, so... quite a lot of raspberry pis.
gollark: The trouble with this is that scaling it up like this requires ridiculous amounts of computing resources, and now it's so big that individuals probably can't even tractably run it.
gollark: It can add somewhat larger numbers!
gollark: https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/06/10/the-obligatory-gpt-3-post/

See also

References
Notes
  1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  2. "Ernée to Host 2020 Monster Energy FIM Motocross of Nations". mxgp.com. Retrieved 2018-10-08.
  3. "List of Twin Towns in the Ruhr District" (PDF). Twins2010.com. Retrieved 2009-10-28.


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