Val-de-Marne

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Val-de-Marne

Coat of arms of the Val-de-Marne department
Location

Administration
Department number:	94
Region:	Île-de-France
Prefecture:	Créteil
Subprefectures:	L'Haÿ-les-Roses Nogent-sur-Marne
Arrondissements:	3
Cantons:	49
Communes:	47
President of the General Council:	Christian Favier PCF
Statistics
Population	Ranked 11th
-Jan.1, 2006 estimate -March 8, 1999 census	1,292,996 1,227,250
Population density:	5,278/km²
Land area¹:	245 km²

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, at the west of Paris. The Val de Marne itself is situated to the SE of Paris.

1 Geography
2 Administration
3 History
4 Demographics
- 4.1 Immigration
5 External links

[edit] Geography

Val-de-Marne lies to the south-east of Paris, and 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").

[edit] 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

[edit] History

Val-de-Marne was largely part of the Seine department until 1968.

[edit] Demographics

[edit] Immigration

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.
² An 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.