Val-d'Oise
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Val-d'Oise (French pronunciation: [val dwaz]) is a French depairtment, creatit in 1968 efter the split o the Seine-et-Oise depairtment an locatit in the Île-de-France region. In local slang, it is kent as "quatre-vingt quinze" (i.e. "ninety-five") or "neuf cinq" (i.e. "nine five"). It gets its name frae the Oise River, a major tributar o the Seine, which crosses the region efter haein stairtit in Belgium an flowed throu north-eastren Fraunce. Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport, Fraunce's main internaitional airport is pairtially locatit in Roissy-en-France, a commune o Val d'Oise.
Val-d'Oise | |
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Location o Val-d'Oise in Fraunce | |
Coordinates: 49°3′43″N 2°5′10″E / 49.06194°N 2.08611°E | |
Kintra | Fraunce |
Region | Île-de-France |
Prefectur | Pontoise |
Subprefectures | Argenteuil Sarcelles |
Govrenment | |
• Preses o the General Cooncil | Arnaud Bazin |
Area | |
• Total | 1246 km2 (481 sq mi) |
Population (2006) | |
• Total | 1,157,052 |
• Rank | 17t |
• Density | 930/km2 (2,400/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Depairtment nummer | 95 |
Arrondissements | 3 |
Cantons | 39 |
Communes | 185 |
^1 French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, an lakes, ponds, an glaciers lairger than 1 km2 |
History
eeditVal-d'Oise wis creatit when the umwhile depaertments Seine an Seine-et-Oise wur broken up intae sax depairtments in 1968.
Demografics
eeditPlace o birth o residents
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Lairgest communes
eeditIn descendin order, the lairgest communes (ower 25,000 population as o the 1999 census) are: Argenteuil, Sarcelles, Cergy, Garges-lès-Gonesse, Franconville, Ermont, Pontoise, Goussainville, Bezons, Villiers-le-Bel, Taverny, an Sannois.
See an aw
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Freemit airtins
eedit- (in French) Website of the General cooncil Archived 2006-06-20 at the Wayback Machine
- (in French) Prefectur wabsteid
- (in Inglis) Val d'Oise Economic Expansion Committee (CEEVO) Wabsteid Archived 2008-05-04 at the Wayback Machine
- (in Inglis) Accommodation an Travel in Val D'Oise Archived 2017-09-11 at the Wayback Machine