Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Email
Answers.com

Vitry-sur-Seine

 
Dictionary: Vi·try-sur-Seine   (vē-trē'sʊr-sĕn', -sür-) pronunciation
Home > Library > Travel > Dictionary - Places


A city of north-central France, an industrial suburb of Paris. Population: 82,100.

 

Search unanswered questions...

Enter a question here...
Search: All sources Community Q&A Reference topics

 
Columbia Encyclopedia: Vitry-sur-Seine
Top
Home > Library > Miscellaneous > Columbia Encyclopedia
Vitry-sur-Seine (vētrē'-sür-sĕn), city (1990 pop. 82,820), Val-de-Marne dept., N central France, on the Seine River; an industrial suburb SE of Paris. The chief products are lighting and heating equipment and chemicals. There is some market gardening. In the St. Germain Church (13th-14th cent.) are the tombs of the former lords of Vitry.

Wikipedia: Vitry-sur-Seine
Top
Home > Library > Miscellaneous > Wikipedia

Coordinates: 48°47′22″N 2°23′22″E / 48.78944°N 2.38944°E / 48.78944; 2.38944

Commune of Vitry-sur-Seine
Vitry - Musee d'art contemporain 00.jpg
Val-de-Marne's Museum of Contemporary Art
located in Vitry.
Location
Vitry-sur-Seine map.svg
Paris and inner ring départements
Coordinates 48°47′22″N 2°23′22″E / 48.78944°N 2.38944°E / 48.78944; 2.38944
Administration
Country France
Region Île-de-France
Department Val-de-Marne
Arrondissement Créteil
Intercommunality none as of 2009
Statistics
Land area1 11.67 km2 (4.51 sq mi)
Population2 82,902  (1 January 2006 census)
 - Density 7,104 /km2 (18,400 /sq mi)
Miscellaneous
Postal code 94400
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Vitry-sur-Seine is a commune in the south-eastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 7.5 km (4.7 mi) from the centre of Paris.

Contents

Name

Vitry-sur-Seine was originally called simply Vitry. The name Vitry comes from Medieval Latin Vitriacum, and before that Victoriacum, meaning "estate of Victorius", a Gallo-Roman landowner. In 1897 the name of the commune officially became Vitry-sur-Seine (meaning "Vitry upon Seine"), in order to distinguish it from other communes of France also called Vitry.

Main sights

Culture

Vitry sur Seine develops for some years a cultural policy allowing all to achieve art. So, more than 100 sculptures of contemporary art are established in the city, notably in the establishments of public education (schools, secondary schools and High Schools).

Vitry reception Musée d'Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne (Val-de-Marne's Museum of Contemporary Art). Having inaugurated 18 November 2005, this museum offers in addition to the workshops of plastic arts, an auditorium and a cinema of art and tries.

Vitry is one of the cities that contributed to the development of movement Hip hop in France. Therefore it is normal that urban art has a very important place in the city

Transport

Vitry-sur-Seine is served by two stations on Paris RER line C: Vitry-sur-Seine and Les Ardoines.

Orly Airport is located near Vitry-sur-Seine.

Demographics

The city can be separated into two distinct parts, a north side containing numerous cités HLM (Housing projects) and a south side belonging to the middle class.

The bordering towns are Ivry-sur-Seine, Villejuif, Chevilly-Larue, Thiais, Choisy-le-Roi, Alfortville.

In 2008 the population of the city is estimated as 82,500 inhabitants. The rate of unemployment is 29.5%, while national average is 14% Vitry Sur Seine is the fiftieth city the most populated of France and the tenth of Île-de-France.

Historical population

Date of Population
1793 1800 1806 1820 1821 1831 1836 1841 1846 1851
3 025 2 018 2 100 - 1 956 2 188 2 079 2 506 2 831 2 559
1856 1861 1866 1872 1876 1881 1886 1891 1896
2 600 3 095 3 745 3 758 4 155 5 284 6 122 7 161 8 010
1901 1906 1911 1921 1926 1931 1936 1946 1954
9 894 11 497 14 969 21 492 31 355 41 919 46 945 44 058 52 540
1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2004 - -
64 409 77 846 87 316 85 263 82 400 78 908 - - -
For the census of 1962 to 1999 the official population corresponds with the population without duplicates according to the INSEE.

Immigration

Place of birth of residents of Vitry-sur-Seine in 1999
Born in Metropolitan France Born outside Metropolitan France
72.9% 27.1%
Born in
Overseas France		 Born in foreign countries with French citizenship at birth¹ EU-15 immigrants² Non-EU-15 immigrants
2.7% 2.7% 5.9% 15.8%
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.

Administration

Vitry is divided into three canton (districts):

  • Vitry-sur-seine-Est counts 27 812 inhabitants
  • Vitry-sur-seine-Nord counts 24 986 inhabitants
  • Vitry-sur-seine-Ouest counts 26 110 inhabitants

(data dating from 1999)

Cités (Housing projects)

  • Cité Balzac
  • Cité Du Colonel Fabien
  • Lucien Français
  • Les Marronniers
  • La Sablière 200
  • La Commune de Paris
  • Mario Capra
  • Les Montagnards
  • Les Montagnes (La Vanoise, Pelvoux, Annapurna)
  • La Tourraine
  • Le Mail
  • Le Moulin Vert
  • Les Toits et Joie
  • Gabriel Peri
  • Cité Robespierre
  • Cité Barbusse
  • Le Square de l'Horloge
  • Cité Camille Groult
  • Les Malassis
  • Rouget de l'isle (Also named Cité Shaolin owed to the big number of Asians)
  • La Glacière
  • Cité Bourgogne
  • Cité Verte
  • Cité Bleu (Camille Blanc)
  • Cité des Combattants
  • Roger Derry
  • Rosenberg
  • Cité des Peupliers-Manouchians
  • La Semise
  • Couzy

Twin towns

Vitry-sur-Seine is twinned with:

It has also a collaboration agreement with:

  • Mali Tombola, Mali, since 1990

Famous people

Search Wikimedia Commons Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Vitry-sur-Seine

References

External links

v • d • e
Paris-metropolitan-area-symbol.pngCommunes in the metropolitan area of Paris
Population over 2 million
Population over 75,000
Population over 50,000
Population over 25,000
Alfortville · Athis-Mons · Bagneux · Bagnolet · Bezons · Bobigny · Bois-Colombes · Brunoy · Cachan · Charenton-le-Pont · Châtenay-Malabry · Châtillon · Chatou · Chelles · Le Chesnay · Choisy-le-Roi · Clichy-sous-Bois · Conflans-Sainte-Honorine · Corbeil-Essonnes · La Courneuve · Draveil · Élancourt · Ermont · Franconville · Fresnes · Gagny · La Garenne-Colombes  · Garges-lès-Gonesse · Gennevilliers · Gonesse · Goussainville · Grigny · Guyancourt · L'Haÿ-les-Roses · Herblay · Houilles · Le Kremlin-Bicêtre · Livry-Gargan · Malakoff · Mantes-la-Jolie · Massy · Meaux · Melun · Meudon · Montfermeil · Montigny-le-Bretonneux · Montrouge · Les Mureaux · Neuilly-sur-Marne · Nogent-sur-Marne · Noisy-le-Sec · Palaiseau · Le Perreux-sur-Marne · Pierrefitte-sur-Seine · Plaisir · Poissy · Pontault-Combault · Pontoise · Puteaux · Rambouillet · Ris-Orangis · Romainville · Rosny-sous-Bois · Saint-Cloud · Saint-Germain-en-Laye · Saint-Ouen · Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois · Sannois · Savigny-sur-Orge · Savigny-le-Temple · Stains · Sucy-en-Brie · Suresnes · Taverny · Thiais · Trappes · Tremblay-en-France · Vanves · Vigneux-sur-Seine · Villemomble · Villeneuve-Saint-Georges · Villepinte · Villiers-le-Bel · Villiers-sur-Marne · Vincennes · Viry-Châtillon · Yerres
Population under 25,000
1,459 other communes

This entry is from Wikipedia, the leading user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors (see full disclaimer)

 
 

 

Copyrights:

Dictionary. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2007, 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2007. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.  Read more
Columbia Encyclopedia. The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Copyright © 2003, Columbia University Press. Licensed from Columbia University Press. All rights reserved. www.cc.columbia.edu/cu/cup/.  Read more
Wikipedia. This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Vitry-sur-Seine".  Read more