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Villeparisis () is a
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in the
Seine-et-Marne Seine-et-Marne () is a department in the Île-de-France region in Northern France. Named after the rivers Seine and Marne, it is the region's largest department with an area of 5,915 square kilometres (2,284 square miles); it roughly covers its ...
department in the
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in north-central
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. It is located in the north-eastern 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 ...
from the
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. Inhabitants of Villeparisis are called ''Villeparisiens''.


Population


Transport

Villeparisis is served by Villeparisis–Mitry-le-Neuf station on Paris RER line B.


Twin towns – sister cities

Villeparisis is twinned with: *
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, England, United Kingdom *
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, Italy *
Wathlingen Wathlingen ( Eastphalian: ''Wateln'') is a municipality in the district of Celle, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately 10 km southeast of Celle. Wathlingen is also the seat of the ''Samtgemeinde A ''Samtgemeinde'' (; ...
, Germany


Notable people

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Henri Cleutin Henri Cleutin, seigneur d'Oisel et de Villeparisis (1515 – 20 June 1566), was the representative of France in Scotland from 1546 to 1560, a Gentleman of the Chamber of the King of France, and a diplomat in Rome 1564-1566 during the French Wars o ...
(1515–1566), diplomat


See also

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Communes of the Seine-et-Marne department The following is a list of the 507 communes of the Seine-et-Marne department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Official website
Communes of Seine-et-Marne {{SeineMarne-geo-stub