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Essonne
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| Essonne | |
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| Coat of arms of the Essonne department | |
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| Department number: | 91 |
| Region: | Île-de-France |
| Prefecture: | Évry |
| Subprefectures: | Étampes Palaiseau |
| Arrondissements: | 3 |
| Cantons: | 42 |
| Communes: | 196 |
| President of the General Council: | Michel Berson |
| Statistics | |
| Population | Ranked 14th |
| -Jan.1, 2004 estimate -March 8, 1999 census |
1,172,301 1,134,238 |
| Population density: | 650/km² |
| Land area¹: | 1,804 km² |
| ¹ French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, and lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km². | |
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Essonne is a French department in the region of Île-de-France. It is named after the Essonne River.
It was formed on January 1, 1968 with the split of the Seine-et-Oise department.
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The Essonne department was created on January 1, 1968, from the southern portion of the former department of Seine-et-Oise.
In 1969, the communes of Châteaufort and Toussus-le-Noble were separated from Essonne and added to the department of Yvelines.
Essonne belongs to the region of Île-de-France.
It has borders with the departments of:
- Hauts-de-Seine and Val-de-Marne to the north,
- Seine-et-Marne to the east,
- Loiret to the south,
- Eure-et-Loir and Yvelines to the west.
All of northern Essonne department belongs to the Parisian agglomeration and is very urbanized. The south remains rural.
In descending order, the cities over 25,000 population are: Évry, Corbeil-Essonnes, Massy, Savigny-sur-Orge, Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, Viry-Châtillon, Athis-Mons, Palaiseau, Draveil, Yerres, Les Ulis, and Vigneux-sur-Seine. Milly-la-Forêt is an example of its more rural communes.
- Cantons of the Essonne department
- Communes of the Essonne department
- Arrondissements of the Essonne department
- (French) Prefecture website
- (French) General council website
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