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Vitry-sur-Seine

Val-de-Marne's Museum of Contemporary Art
located in Vitry.
	Commune of Vitry-sur-Seine; ; Val-de-Marne's Museum of Contemporary Art; located in Vitry.
	Location
	Paris and inner ring départements
Coordinates	48°47′22″N 2°23′22″E / 48.78944°N 2.38944°E
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.

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

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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Main sights

Musée d'Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne

[edit] 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

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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

[edit] Twin towns

Vitry-sur-Seine is twinned with:

Burnley, united Kingdom, from 1958 to 1974 and since 1995
Kladno, Czech Republic, since 1966
Meissen, Germany, since 1973

It has also a collaboration agreement with:

Tombola, Mali, since 1990

[edit] Famous people

Jimmy Briand, Footballer
Jimmy Kébé, Footballer
113, Rapper (Rim-K, AP and Mokobé
Jérémy Menez, Footballer
Rohff, Rapper

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[edit] References

[edit] External links

Official website
Val-de-Marne's Museum of Contemporary Art
Paris-Sud Community (English)

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