Fontaine-Chaalis |
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Fontaine-Chaalis
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Administration | |
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Country | France |
Region | Picardy |
Department | Oise |
Arrondissement | Senlis |
Canton | Nanteuil-le-Haudouin |
Intercommunality | Communauté de communes du Pays de Senlis |
Mayor | Alexis Patria (2008–2014) |
Statistics | |
Elevation | 62–123 m (203–404 ft) (avg. 70 m/230 ft) |
Land area1 | 33.11 km2 (12.78 sq mi) |
Population2 | 320 (1999) |
- Density | 10 /km2 (26 /sq mi) |
INSEE/Postal code | 60241/ 60300 |
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once. |
Fontaine-Chaalis is a small village in northern France. It is designated municipally as a commune within the département of Oise.
On 3 March 1974 Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashed in this commune, in the Ermenonville Forest.[1]