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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 / 49.06194; 2.08611
Kintra Fraunce
Region Île-de-France
Prefectur Pontoise
Subprefectures Argenteuil
 • Preses o the General Cooncil Arnaud Bazin
 • Total 1,246 km2 (481 sq mi)
Population (2006)
 • Total 1,157,052
 • Rank 17t
 • Density 930/km2 (2,400/sq mi)
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 • Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
Depairtment nummer 95
Arrondissements 3
Cantons 39
Communes 185

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 and 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 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
2.2% 2.9% 3.6% 15.1%

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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