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Vitry-sur-Seine

Administrative division in Île-de-France, France

Field	Value
name	Vitry-sur-Seine
commune status	Commune
image	Vitry Hotel de Ville DSCN1793.JPG
caption	The Hôtel de Ville
image coat of arms	Blason ville fr Vitry-sur-Seine (Val de Marne).svg
map	Vitry-sur-Seine_map.svg
map caption	Location (in red) within Paris inner suburbs
arrondissement	L'Haÿ-les-Roses
canton	Vitry-sur-Seine-1
Vitry-sur-Seine-2
INSEE	94081
postal code	94400
mayor	Pierre Bell-Lloch
term	2020–2026
intercommunality	Grand Paris
coordinates
area km2	11.67
population
population date
population footnotes

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Vitry-sur-Seine () is a commune in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, France, 7.5 km from the centre of Paris.

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

The Hôtel de Ville, which opened in 1985, is on Avenue Youri Gagarine, and the Musée d'Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, which opened in 2005, is on Place de la Libération.

Culture

For some years, Vitry-sur-Seine operated a cultural policy of bringing art to all. For this reason, the commune contains over 100 contemporary sculptures, notably in establishments of public education (schools, secondary schools and High Schools).

Vitry hosts the Musée d'Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne (Val-de-Marne's Museum of Contemporary Art). Opened on 18 November 2005, this museum offers in addition to the workshops of plastic arts, an auditorium and a cinema for art and experimental film.

Vitry is one of the cities that contributed to the development of the Hip hop movement in France. Consequentially, 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 three distinct parts: the center containing numerous cités HLM (Housing projects), peripheral neighborhoods belonging to the middle class, and a large industrial area along the Seine river.

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

In 2017 the population of the city was estimated at 93,500 inhabitants. Vitry-sur-Seine is the 46th most populated city of France and the seventh of Île-de-France. The rate of unemployment is 26.5%, while national average is under 10%.

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Immigration

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As of circa 1998 Ivry-sur-Seine and Vitry had a combined Asian population of 3,600. That year about 250 Asians from those communes worked in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, and the overall demographics of Ivry and Vitry Asians were similar to those in the 13th arrondissement.

Administration

Vitry is divided into two cantons (districts):

Vitry-sur-Seine-1 counts 46,849 inhabitants (as of 2014)
Vitry-sur-Seine-2 counts 44,339 inhabitants (as of 2014)

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
La Glacière
Cité Bourgogne
Cité Verte
Cité Bleu (Camille Blanc)
Cité des Combattants
Roger Derry
Rosenberg
Cité des Peupliers-Manouchians
La Semise
Couzy

Education

the commune has 23 preschools (maternelles), and 21 elementary schools, with a combined total of 9,000 students.

Public junior high schools (collèges): Danielle-Casanova, Adolphe-Chérioux, Lakanal, Gustave-Monod, and Collège Jules-Valles
- In addition Collège Romain-Rolland in Ivry-sur-Seine serves a portion of Vitry-sur-Seine
Senior high schools: Lycée Adolphe-Chérioux, Lycée Camille-Claudel, and Lycée Jean-Macé
- Lycée Romain-Rolland is in adjacent Ivry-sur-Seine
Private junior-senior high school: Collège-lycée privé Epin

Paris 12 Val de Marne University is the area university.

Twin towns – sister cities

Vitry-sur-Seine is twinned with:

ENG Burnley, England, United Kingdom (1958)
CZE Kladno, Czech Republic (1966)
GER Meissen, Germany (1973)

Notable people

113, rap group
Jimmy Briand, footballer
Cédric Bakambu, footballer
Sohane Benziane, murder victim
Cerrone, musician
Raymond Cordy, actor
Damien Dovy, karateka
Jean Dréville, film director
Daniel Duval, film actor, director, writer
Squeezie, youtuber
David Fleurival, footballer
Mickaël Hanany, athlete
Marc Johnson, artist
Jimmy Kébé, footballer
Ritchie Makuma Mpasa, footballer
Richard Massolin, footballer
Doudou Masta, rapper
Maé-Bérénice Méité, figure skater
Jérémy Menez, footballer
Maguy Nestoret, athlete
Rohff, rapper
Arsène Tchakarian, French-Armenian historian and resistance fighter
Lassana Touré, basketball player

References

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(1 November 2020). "Val-de-Marne. Patrimoine: l'Hôtel de Ville de Vitry-sur-Seine fête ses 35 ans". Actu.
"Musée d'art contemporain du Val-de-Marne". Ministère de la Culture.
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[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/4515315?geo=COM-94081#ancre-POP_T1 Population en historique depuis 1968], INSEE
Guillon, Michelle. "The Chinese and Chinese Districts in Paris" (Chapter 11). In: Sinn, Elizabeth (editor). ''The Last Half Century of Chinese Overseas''. [[Hong Kong University Press]], 1 January 1998. {{ISBN
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"[http://www.vitry94.fr/education-formation/colleges/ Collèges]." Vitry-sur-Seine. Retrieved on September 7, 2016.
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(November 2020). "Le Mensuel Novembre 2020". Vitry-sur-Seine.

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