Stains (French pronunciation: [stɛ̃] ^ⓘ) is a commune in the Seine-Saint-Denis department, in the northern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 11.6 km (7.2 mi) from the center of Paris.^{[citation needed]}

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Coordinates: 48°57′00″N 2°23′00″E
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Seine-Saint-Denis
Arrondissement	Saint-Denis
Canton	Saint-Denis-2
Intercommunality	Grand Paris
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Azzédine Taïbi[1]
Area 1	5.39 km2 (2.08 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]	40,359
• Density	7,500/km2 (19,000/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	93072 /93240
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

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Stains is served by Pierrefitte – Stains station on Paris RER line D. This station is located at the border between the commune of Stains and the commune of Pierrefitte-sur-Seine, on the Pierrefitte-sur-Seine side of the border.^{[citation needed]}

Schools in Stains:^[5]

• 11 public preschools/nursery schools (maternelles)
• 13 public elementary schools
• 3 public junior high schools: Barbara, Joliot Curie, and Pablo Neruda
• 1 public senior high school/sixth-form college: Lycée polyvalent Maurice Utrillo
• 1 private junior high school: Collège privé Sainte-Marie.

• Château de Stains (transl. Castle of Stains, destroyed in the War of 1870)
• Cité-jardin de Stains (transl. Garden City of Stains)
• Town hall of Stains
• Château de la Motte (transl. Castle of La Motte, destroyed in 1819 with the exception of a few outbuildings)^[6]
• L'église Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption de Stains (Church of Our Lady of the Assumption of Stains)

• Château de Stains in 1870
• Town Hall of Stains in the 1920s.
• Detail of the pediment of the Château de La Motte.

• Éric Junior Dina Ebimbe, footballer
• Mohamed-Ali Cho, footballer

Stains is twinned with:^[7]

• Saalfeld ( Germany ) since May 4, 1964: Twinning for joint projects of peace and collaboration between the German and French people.
• Cheshunt ( United Kingdom ) since 1965: Traditional twinning
• Luco dei Marsi ( Italy ) since December 15, 2000: Multilateral collaboration in the fields of sport, tourism, environment and development in the field of NICTs, allowing the enhancement of reciprocal cultural wealth.
• Am'ari ( Palestine ) since January 15, 1999: Multilateral cooperation with the Palestinian refugee camp of Am'ari in the West Bank, in solidarity with the peace forces in the region.
• Mengueme ( Cameroon ) since 2000: Cooperation agreement on health, education, sanitation, rural electrification, ecosystem preservation, development of agriculture, livestock but also culture, sport and tourism.
• Figuig ( Morocco ) since October 18, 2002: Cooperation agreement on youth citizenship, cultural exchanges, health and prevention, local development, town planning and the environment.

• Communes of the Seine-Saint-Denis department