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Lac d'Enghien is a
freshwater
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lake
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in
France
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.
Geography
Lac d'Enghien is in the
ÃŽle-de-France
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region
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, approximately seven miles north of
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...
. Administratively it belongs to the
commune
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Administrative-territorial entities
* Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township
** Communes of ...
of
Enghien-les-Bains
Enghien-les-Bains () is a commune in the northern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris, in the département of Val-d'Oise.
Enghien-les-Bains is famous as a spa resort and a well-to-do suburb of Paris, developed in ...
in the
department
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* Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility
Government and military
*Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...
of
Val-d'Oise
Val-d'Oise (, "Vale of the Oise") is a department in the ÃŽle-de-France region, Northern France. It was created in 1968 following the split of the Seine-et-Oise department. In 2019, Val-d'Oise had a population of 1,249,674. . It is the department's largest body of water.
Features
The lake is roughly wide and long, with a circumference of and a total surface area of . The lake water is replenished by several small
stream
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s: the Corbon, Haras, d'Ermont, and d'Andilly, all of them under long .
See also
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Montmorency, Val-d'Oise
Montmorency () is a commune in the northern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the center of Paris.
Montmorency was the fief of the Montmorency family, one of the oldest and most distinguished families of the French nobility. It is no ...
References
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Enghien
Enghien (; nl, Edingen ; pcd, Inguî; vls, Enge) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium.
On 1January 2006, Enghien had a total population of 11,980. The total area is , which gives a population dens ...
Landforms of Val-d'Oise