CERGY

'Cergy' is a commune in the northwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 27.8 km. (17.3 miles) from the center of Paris, in the "new town" of Cergy-Pontoise, created in the 1960s, of which it is the central and most populated commune.
Although neighboring Pontoise is the official ''préfecture'' (capital) of the Val-d'Oise ''département'', the ''préfecture'' building and administration, as well as the department council (''conseil général''), are located inside the commune of Cergy, which is regarded as the ''de facto'' capital of Val-d'Oise. The ''sous-préfecture'' building and administration, on the other hand, are located inside the commune of Pontoise.

Contents

Name

Demographics

Immigration

Administration

Twinnings

Port Cergy

Ham

Transport

Education

References

External links

Name

The name Cergy comes from Medieval Latin ''Sergiacum'', meaning "estate of Sergius", a Gallo-Roman landowner.

Demographics

When Cergy was selected to become the center of a "new town", it was only a village. The commune had only 2,895 inhabitants in 1968. It then started to develop very quickly, exceeding 10,000 inhabitants in the mid-1970s and then 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 a notably slower page, to reach 54,500 as of 2004 estimates. However, on January 1, 2000, the commune lost a portion of its territory (net 0.03 km² with a 1999 population of 62 persons) to the adjacent commune of Courdimanche.^[1] The official census figures have thus been revised downward from the 1999 official 54,781 to 54,719 (reajusted) and the land area from 11.68 km² to 11.65 km² (readjusted).

Immigration

Administration

Cergy is the chief town of two cantons:

★ The canton of Cergy-Nord is made of part of Cergy and communes of Boissy-l'Aillerie, Osny, Puiseux-Pontoise (53,779 inhabitants)

★ The canton of Cergy-Sud is made of part of Cergy and the commune of Éragny (32,969 inhabitants).

Twinnings

★ Columbia, United States.

★ Erkrath, Germany.

★ Liaoyang, China.

★ Porto Novo, Benin.

★ Tres Cantos, Spain

★ West Lancashire, United Kingdom.

Port Cergy

'Port Cergy' is a marina on the River Oise at 9. The site comprises both housing and recreational yachts as well as a boating school. The marina can hold 103 ships ranging 5 to 22m long and. The northern part of the site is reserved for restaurants and shops and have been built around a small bassin.

Ham

Ham is a small village to the south of Cergy. The village used to be part of the Sergentery and then commune of Neuville-sur-Oise but has since been amalgamated in the commune of Cergy. On its territory is the outdoor leisure centre 'Base de Loisirs de Cergy-Neuville'.

Transport

Cergy is served by three stations on Paris RER line A and on the Transilien Paris – Saint-Lazare suburban rail line: Cergy – Préfecture, Cergy – Saint-Christophe, and Cergy – Le Haut.
The bus company STIVO provides 17 lines of buses to travel within the agglomeration of Cergy.

Education

★ Université de Cergy-Pontoise

★ ESSEC Business School (''grande école'')

★ ENSEA

★ EISTI, Ecole internationale des sciences du traitement de l'information

References

1. [1] Code officiel géographique, from INSEE

External links

★ Cergy official website

★ Internet site of the Université de Cergy-Pontoise

★ portcergy.com