Tours (/tr/ toor, french: [tu] (about this soundlisten)) is a city in the 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, orlans). In 2012, the city of tours had 134, 978 inhabitants, and the population of the whole metropolitan area was 483, 74