Val-d'Oise
Val-d'Oise (, "Vale of the Oise") is a department in the ĂŽle-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.
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Twinning
Marines has been twinned with the town of Kington in England since 1979. The two places are of a similar population. In Marines there is a residential side-street called "Place Kington", whilst in Kington there is a covered space by the market hall called "Place-de-Marines".
Marines is located next to a village called Us. In the surrounding area, both villages are indicated with signs showing both names listed, which reads as "US MARINES". A regular joke in the region is to make people believe that these signs indicate a nearby U.S Marine Corps base.
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Communes of the Val-d'Oise department
The following is a list of the 184 communes of the Val-d'Oise department of France.
The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Official website
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