commune
A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or comune or other derivations may also refer to:
Administrative-territorial entities
* Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township
** Communes of ...
in the
Essonne
Essonne () is a department of France in the southern Île-de-France region. It is named after the river Essonne. In 2019, it had a population of 1,301,659 across 194 communes.department in the southern suburbs of
Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, 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), ma ...
,
France
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. It is located 18 kilometres from the center of Paris. A portion of
Paris Orly Airport
Paris Orly Airport (french: Aéroport de Paris-Orly), commonly referred to as Orly , is one of two international airports serving the French capital, Paris, the other one being Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG). It is located partially in Orly a ...
is in Morangis.Plan ." Morangis. Retrieved on 6 October 2009.
Population
Inhabitants of Morangis are known as ''Morangissois''.
Transport
The nearest train station is
Chilly-Mazarin station
Chilly-Mazarin () is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the center of Paris.
A small part of Orly International Airport lies on the territory of the commune of Chilly-Mazarin.
Inhabitants of Chilly-Mazarin ...
on Paris
RER line C
RER C is one of the five lines in the Réseau Express Régional (English: Regional Express Network), a hybrid commuter rail and rapid transit system serving Paris, France and its suburbs. The line crosses the region from north to south.
The li ...
. The
A6 autoroute
The A6, also known as the Autoroute du Soleil, ''Motorway of the Sun'', (along with the A7), is an Autoroute in France, linking Paris to Lyon. The motorway starts at Paris's Porte d'Orléans and Porte d'Italie with two branches, numbered A6a a ...
pases through the commune and
Paris - Orly Airport
Paris Orly Airport (french: Aéroport de Paris-Orly), commonly referred to as Orly , is one of two international airports serving the French capital, Paris, the other one being Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG). It is located partially in Orly a ...
is nearby.
Education
Public primary schools include:Etablissements scolaires de Morangis " Morangis. Retrieved on September 3, 2016.
* Ecole maternelle Les Acacias (preschool)
* Ecole maternelle Les Hirondelles (preschool)
* Ecole élémentaire Edouard Herriot
* Ecole élémentaire Louis Moreau
* Ecole primaire Nelson Mandela
There is a public junior high school, Collège Michel Vignaud; a public senior high school/sixth-form college,
Lycée Marguerite Yourcenar
In France, secondary education is in two stages:
* ''Collèges'' () cater for the first four years of secondary education from the ages of 11 to 15.
* ''Lycées'' () provide a three-year course of further secondary education for children between ...
; and a private school, Ecole privée Saint-Joseph.
Twins cities
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Plaidt
Plaidt is a municipality in the district of Mayen-Koblenz in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany
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, in
Germany
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England
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See also
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Communes of the Essonne department
The following is a list of the 194 communes of the Essonne department of France.
The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Morangis website