Val-d'Oise

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Val-d'Oise

Coat of arms of the Val-d'Oise department
Location

Administration
Department number:	95
Region:	Île-de-France
Prefecture:	Pontoise
Subprefectures:	Argenteuil Sarcelles
Arrondissements:	3
Cantons:	39
Communes:	185
President of the General Council:	Didier Arnal PS
Statistics
Population	Ranked 16th
-Jan 1, 2006 estimate -March 8, 1999 census	1,153,497 1,105,464
Population density:	926/km²
Land area¹:	1,246 km²

¹ French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, and lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km².

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.

1 History
2 Demographics
- 2.1 Immigration
- 2.2 Largest communes
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

[edit] History

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

[edit] Demographics

[edit] 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%

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.