Val-de-Marne | |||
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Location of Val-de-Marne in France | |||
Coordinates: | |||
Country | France | ||
Region | Île-de-France | ||
Prefecture | Créteil | ||
Subprefectures | L'Haÿ-les-Roses Nogent-sur-Marne |
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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 (French pronunciation: [val.də.maʁn]) 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.
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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").
Val-de-Marne is made up of 3 departmental arrondissements and 47 communes:
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.
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