Val-de-Marne

Val-de-Marne
—  Department  —
Coat of arms
Location of Val-de-Marne in France
Coordinates: 48°45′N 2°25′E / 48.75°N 2.417°E / 48.75; 2.417Coordinates: 48°45′N 2°25′E / 48.75°N 2.417°E / 48.75; 2.417
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Prefecture	Créteil
Subprefectures	L'Haÿ-les-Roses Nogent-sur-Marne
Government
- President of the General Council	Christian Favier (PCF)
Area1
- Total	245 km2 (94.6 sq mi)
Population (2006)
- Total	1,298,340
- Rank	10th
- Density	5,299.3/km2 (13,725.2/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
- Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Department number	94
Arrondissements	3
Cantons	49
Communes	47
^1 French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, and lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km2

Val-de-Marne is a French department, named after the Marne River, located in the Île-de-France region. The department is situated to the southeast of the city of Paris.

Geography

Val-de-Marne is, together with Seine-Saint-Denis and Hauts-de-Seine, one of three small departments in Île-de-France that form a ring around Paris, known as the Petite Couronne (i.e. "inner ring").

Administration

Val-de-Marne is made up of 3 departmental arrondissements and 47 communes:

Arrondissement of L'Haÿ-les-Roses	Arrondissement of Créteil	Arrondissement of Nogent-sur-Marne
Fresnes Rungis Thiais Chevilly-Larue L'Haÿ-les-Roses Villejuif Cachan Arcueil Gentilly Le Kremlin-Bicêtre	Ivry-sur-Seine Charenton-le-Pont Saint-Maurice Maisons-Alfort Alfortville Vitry-sur-Seine Choisy-le-Roi Orly Villeneuve-le-Roi Ablon-sur-Seine Villeneuve-Saint-Georges Valenton Créteil Saint-Maur-des-Fossés Bonneuil-sur-Marne Sucy-en-Brie Boissy-Saint-Léger Limeil-Brévannes Villecresnes Mandres-les-Roses Périgny Santeny Marolles-en-Brie	La Queue-en-Brie Noiseau Ormesson-sur-Marne Chennevières-sur-Marne Le Plessis-Trévise Villiers-sur-Marne Champigny-sur-Marne Joinville-le-Pont Nogent-sur-Marne Le Perreux-sur-Marne Bry-sur-Marne Fontenay-sous-Bois Vincennes Saint-Mandé

History

Val-de-Marne was created in January 1968, through the implementation of a law passed in July 1964. Positioned to the south-east of the Paris ring road (and the line of the old city walls), it was formed from the southern-eastern part of the (previously much larger) Seine department, together with a small portion taken from the broken-up department of Seine-et-Oise.

Demographics

Place of birth of residents

Place of birth of residents of Val-de-Marne in 1999 Born in Metropolitan France Born outside Metropolitan France 79.3% 20.7% Born in Overseas France Born in foreign countries with French citizenship at birth¹ EU-15 immigrants² Non-EU-15 immigrants 2.1% 3.3% 4.8% 10.5% ¹This group is made up largely of pieds-noirs from 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.

External links

• (French) Prefecture
• (French) General Council
• (English) Val-de-Marne Tourism Guide
• (French) Citizen Blog