Val-d'Oise

Val-d'Oise is a French department named after the Oise River, located in the Île-de-France region. Charles de Gaulle International Airport, France's main international airport is partially located in Roissy-en-France, a commune of Val d'Oise.

History

Val-d'Oise was created when the former departments Seine and Seine-et-Oise were broken up into six departments in 1968.

Demographics

Immigration

Place of birth of residents of Val-d'Oise in 1999

Born in metropolitan France	Born outside metropolitan France
81.2%	18.8%
	Born in overseas France	Born in foreign countries with French citizenship at birth1	EU-15 immigrants2	Non-EU-15 immigrants
	2.2%	2.9%	3.6%	10.1%
1 This group is made up largely of former French settlers, such as pieds-noirs in 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), as well as to a lesser extent foreign-born children of French expatriates. A foreign country is understood as a country not part of France in 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. 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.

Largest communes

In descending order, the largest communes (over 25,000 population as of the 1999 census) are: Argenteuil, Sarcelles, Cergy, Garges-lès-Gonesse, Franconville, Ermont, Pontoise, Goussainville, Bezons, Villiers-le-Bel, Taverny, and Sannois.

See also

• Cantons of the Val-d'Oise department
• Communes of the Val-d'Oise department
• Arrondissements of the Val-d'Oise department

External links

• Template:Fr icon Website of the General council
• Template:Fr icon Prefecture website
• {(English)} Val d'Oise Economic Expansion Committee (CEEVO) Website