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L'ÃŽle-Saint-Denis (, ; ) is a
French commune The () is a level of administrative division in the French Republic. French are analogous to civil townships and incorporated municipalities in the United States and Canada, ' in Germany, ' in Italy, or ' in Spain. The United Kingdom's equi ...
in the northern suburbs 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 ...
,
ÃŽle-de-France , timezone1 = CET , utc_offset1 = +01:00 , timezone1_DST = CEST , utc_offset1_DST = +02:00 , blank_name_sec1 = Gross regional product , blank_info_sec1 = Ranked 1st , bla ...
. It is located from the center of Paris. The commune is entirely contained on an island of the
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River, hence its name. Along with the communes of Saint-Denis and
Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine (, literally ''Saint-Ouen on Seine'') is a commune in the Seine-Saint-Denis department in the ÃŽle-de-France region of France. It is located in the northern suburbs of Paris, from the centre of Paris. The commune was call ...
, L'ÃŽle-Saint-Denis will form the
Olympic Village An Olympic Village is an accommodation center built for the Olympic Games, usually within an Olympic Park or elsewhere in a host city. Olympic Villages are built to house all participating athletes, as well as officials and athletic trainers. Afte ...
of the
2024 Summer Olympics The 2024 Summer Olympics (french: Jeux olympiques d'été de 2024), officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad (french: Jeux de la XXXIIIe Olympiade, links=no) and also known as Paris 2024, is an upcoming international multi-sport event that is s ...
. This allows 85% of athletes to be 30 minutes from their competition venues.


Heraldry


Transport

Several transit connections are located nearby. The closest station to l'ÃŽle-Saint-Denis is Saint-Denis station, which is an interchange station on Paris RER line D and on the
Transilien Paris – Nord Transilien Paris-Nord is one of the sectors in the Paris Transilien suburban rail network. The trains on this sector depart from Gare du Nord in central Paris, and serve the north-west and north-east of ÃŽle-de-France region with Transilien lines ...
suburban rail line. This station is located in the neighboring commune of Saint-Denis, from the town center of l'ÃŽle-Saint-Denis. Tram T1 stops near ÃŽle-Saint-Denis's town hall. Bus route 237 runs along the length of the island.


Demographics

The island is the result of the joining of several smaller islands (which helps explain its current length): L’île Saint-Denis, l’île Saint-Ouen, l’île des Vannes and l'île du Châtelier. Since the 1960s l'Île-Saint-Denis has housed immigrants, mostly from
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n countries. Nadir Dendoune, a local author, said that l'ÃŽle-Saint-Denis had racial and ethnic diversity in the 1980s, as the neighborhood housed various groups of poor people, including Arabs, Black people, ethnic French, and other Europeans, and that at that time half of the students in area schools were White. In 2005, according to Dendoune, few of the students were White.


Education

There are three primary schools in the commune: École Samira Bellil, École Paul Langevin, and École Jean Lurçat. Collège Alfred Sisley, a junior high school, is on the island.Home
Collège Alfred Sisley. Retrieved on September 9, 2016.


See also

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Communes of the Seine-Saint-Denis department The following is a list of the 40 communes of the Seine-Saint-Denis department of France. Since January 2016, all communes of Seine-Saint-Denis are part of the intercommunality Métropole du Grand Paris {{DEFAULTSORT:Communes Of The Sein ...


References


External links


City council website
Communes of Seine-Saint-Denis {{SeineSaintDenis-geo-stub