Villefontaine () is a
commune
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Administrative-territorial entities
* Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township
** Communes of ...
in the
Isère
Isère ( , ; frp, Isera; oc, Isèra, ) is a landlocked department in the southeastern French region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Named after the river Isère, it had a population of 1,271,166 in 2019.[department
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* Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility
Government and military
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in southeastern
France
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.
Geography
The
Bourbre
The Bourbre () is a long river in the Isère and Rhône departments in central eastern France. Its source is in Burcin. It flows generally north-northwest. It is a left tributary of the Rhône, into which it flows at Chavanoz.
Departments and ...
flows northwest through the northeastern part of the commune.
Population
Twin towns – sister cities
Villefontaine is
twinned with:
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Kahl am Main
Kahl am Main (officially ''Kahl a. Main'') is a community in the Aschaffenburg district in the ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Lower Franconia (''Unterfranken'') in Bavaria, Germany. It has around 7,500 inhabitants.
Geography
Location
Kahl am Main ...
, Germany (1990)
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Bitterfeld-Wolfen
Bitterfeld-Wolfen () is a town in the district Anhalt-Bitterfeld, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is situated in south-eastern Saxony-Anhalt, west of the river Mulde, in an area that is dominated by heavy industry and lignite mining. The town was forme ...
, Germany (1994)
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Gremda, Tunisia (1994)
*
Salzano
Salzano ( vec, Salsan) is a town and ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Venice, Veneto, northern Italy, located from Venice.
History
The area of Salzano was already inhabited in the Roman era, but it the first documents attesting its existe ...
, Italy (2009)
See also
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Communes of the Isère department
The following is a list of the 512 Communes of France, communes in the French Departments of France, department of Isère.
The communes cooperate in the following Communes of France#Intercommunality, intercommunalities (as of 2020):
References
External links
Official website
Communes of Isère
Isère communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia
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