Val-d'Oise

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Val-d'Oise
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Location o Val-d'Oise in Fraunce
Location o Val-d'Oise in Fraunce
Coordinates: 49°3′43″N 2°5′10″E / 49.06194°N 2.08611°E / 49.06194; 2.08611
KintraFraunce
RegionÎle-de-France
PrefecturPontoise
SubprefecturesArgenteuil
Sarcelles
Govrenment
 • Preses o the General CooncilArnaud Bazin
Area
 • Total1246 km2 (481 sq mi)
Population
 (2006)
 • Total1,157,052
 • Rank17t
 • Density930/km2 (2,400/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Depairtment nummer95
Arrondissements3
Cantons39
Communes185
^1 French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, an lakes, ponds, an glaciers lairger than 1 km2

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.

History[eedit | eedit soorce]

Val-d'Oise wis creatit when the umwhile depaertments Seine an Seine-et-Oise wur broken up intae sax depairtments in 1968.

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Place o birth o residents[eedit | eedit soorce]

Place of birth of residents of Val-d'Oise in 1999
Born in Metropolitan France Born outside Metropolitan France
76.2% 24.8%
Born in
Overseas France
Born in foreign countries with French citizenship at birth¹ EU-15 immigrants² Non-EU-15 immigrants
2.2% 2.9% 3.6% 15.1%
¹This group is made up largely of former French settlers, such as pieds-noirs in Northwest Africa, followed by former colonial citizens who had French citizenship at birth (such as was often the case for the native elite in French colonies), and to a lesser extent foreign-born children of French expatriates. Note that a foreign country is understood as a country not part of France as of 1999, so a person born for example in 1950 in Algeria, when Algeria was an integral part of France, is nonetheless listed as a person born in a foreign country in French statistics.
²An immigrant is a person born in a foreign country not having French citizenship at birth. Note that an immigrant may have acquired French citizenship since moving to France, but is still considered an immigrant in French statistics. On the other hand, persons born in France with foreign citizenship (the children of immigrants) are not listed as immigrants.

Lairgest communes[eedit | eedit soorce]

In 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.

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