Vélizy-Villacoublay

Vélizy-Villacoublay
region	Île-de-France
Department	Yvelines
Arrondissement	Versailles
Canton	Versailles-2
Community association	Versailles Grand Parc
Coordinates	48 ° 47 ' N , 2 ° 11' E Coordinates: 48 ° 47 ' N , 2 ° 11' E
height	102-179 m
surface	8.93 km 2
Residents	22,036 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	2,468 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	78140
INSEE code	78640
Website	http://www.ville-velizy-villacoublay.fr/
	; Saint-Jean-Baptiste church

Velizy-Villacoublay is a French municipality with 22,036 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Yvelines in the region Ile-de-France . It is 13.9 km from Paris city center. Mainly large companies such as Dassault Systemes , Alcatel-Lucent , Blizzard , Microsoft or Thales can be found there . In the center is the Vélizy 2 shopping center.

The inhabitants are called Véliziens .

Surname

Originally the name only consisted of Vélizy, but in 1938 the town was officially named Vélizy-Villacoublay.

There are bus connections to the Pont de Sèvres with connection to line 9 of the Paris Métro and to Versailles . It is also possible to take the bus to Chaville and board the RER C at Chaville-Vélizy station , which goes to central Paris and Orly Airport . On December 13, 2014, the new line 6 of the Paris tram was opened, which connects Vélizy-Villacoublay with Châtillon and Montrouge , two municipalities on the Paris city limits. Line 6 ends there at the Châtillon - Montrouge metro station , from where line 13 of the Paris metro leads directly to the center of Paris. In the south of the village is the Villacoublay military airfield .

Le Patrimoine des Communes des Yvelines. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-84234-070-1 , pp. 941-944.

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