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 (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.

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:

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

External links

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