Cergy

Cergy is a suburban commune of the Val-d'Oise département, in suburban Paris in France. It is the principal centre of the new town of Cergy-Pontoise

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When Cergy was selected to become the center of a new city, it was yet only one village. The commune had less 3,000 inhabitants at the end of the 1960s. It then started to develop much more quickly, exceeding 10,000 inhabitants in the mid-1970s and similar the 20,000 in the early-1980s. It is in this decade that its growth was most spectacular, since the city exceeded 48,000 inhabitants in 1990. The increase continued since, but at clearly slowed down intervals, to reach 56,167 according to a complementary census in 2003.

Commune: A commune or comune is a system of social and economic organization which involves the common ownership of resources and/or shared obligations. Within that framework, the word can have various meanings:...

Département: The d?partements (or departments) are administrative units of France and many former French colonies, roughly analogous to British counties. The 100 French d?partements are now grouped into 22 metropolitan and four overseas r?gions. They are subdivided into 342 arrondissements....

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