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Vitry-sur-Seine
Vitry-sur-Seine
Commune
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	Coordinates: 48°47′15″N 2°23′34″E / 48.7875°N 2.3928°E
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Val-de-Marne
Arrondissement	L'Haÿ-les-Roses
Canton	Vitry-sur-Seine-1 ; Vitry-sur-Seine-2
Intercommunality	Grand Paris
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Pierre Bell-Lloch
Area 1	11.67 km2 (4.51 sq mi)
Population (2022)	95,282
• Density	8,200/km2 (21,000/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	94081 /94400
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Vitry-sur-Seine (French pronunciation: [vitʁi syʁ sɛn] ^ⓘ) is a commune in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, France, 7.5 km (4.7 mi) from the centre of Paris.

Name

Vitry-sur-Seine was originally called simply Vitry. The name Vitry comes from Medieval Latin Vitriacum, and before that Victoriacum, meaning "estate of Victorius", a Gallo-Roman landowner. In 1897 the name of the commune officially became Vitry-sur-Seine (meaning "Vitry upon Seine"), in order to distinguish it from other communes of France also called Vitry.

Main sights

Musée d'Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne

Culture

For some years, Vitry-sur-Seine operated a cultural policy of bringing art to all. For this reason, the commune contains over 100 contemporary sculptures, notably in establishments of public education (schools, secondary schools and High Schools).

Vitry hosts the Musée d'Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne (Val-de-Marne's Museum of Contemporary Art). Opened on 18 November 2005, this museum offers in addition to the workshops of plastic arts, an auditorium and a cinema for art and experimental film.

Vitry is one of the cities that contributed to the development of the Hip hop movement in France. Consequentially, urban art has a very important place in the city

Transport

Vitry-sur-Seine is served by two stations on Paris RER line C: Vitry-sur-Seine and Les Ardoines.

Orly Airport is located near Vitry-sur-Seine.

Demographics

The city can be separated into three distinct parts: the center containing numerous cités HLM (Housing projects), peripheral neighborhoods belonging to the middle class, and a large industrial area along the Seine river.

The bordering towns are Ivry-sur-Seine, Villejuif, Chevilly-Larue, Thiais, Choisy-le-Roi, Alfortville.

In 2017 the population of the city was estimated at 93,500 inhabitants. Vitry-sur-Seine is the 46th most populated city of France and the seventh of Île-de-France. The rate of unemployment is 26.5%, while national average is under 10%.

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1793	3,025	—
1800	2,018	−5.62%
1806	2,100	+0.67%
1821	1,956	−0.47%
1831	2,188	+1.13%
1836	2,079	−1.02%
1841	2,506	+3.81%
1846	2,831	+2.47%
1851	2,559	−2.00%
1856	2,600	+0.32%
1861	3,095	+3.55%
1866	3,745	+3.89%
1872	3,758	+0.06%
1876	4,155	+2.54%
1881	5,284	+4.92%
1886	6,122	+2.99%
1891	7,161	+3.18%
1896	8,010	+2.27%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1901	9,894	+4.32%
1906	11,497	+3.05%
1911	14,969	+5.42%
1921	21,492	+3.68%
1926	31,355	+7.85%
1931	41,919	+5.98%
1936	46,945	+2.29%
1946	44,058	−0.63%
1954	52,540	+2.23%
1962	64,409	+2.58%
1968	77,846	+3.21%
1975	87,316	+1.65%
1982	85,263	−0.34%
1990	82,400	−0.43%
1999	78,908	−0.48%
2007	83,650	+0.73%
2012	88,102	+1.04%
2017	93,557	+1.21%

Source: EHESS^[3] and INSEE (1968-2017)^[4]

Immigration

Place of birth of residents of Vitry-sur-Seine in 1999
Born in metropolitan France	Born outside metropolitan France
72.9%	27.1%
	Born in overseas France	Born in foreign countries with French citizenship at birth¹	EU-15 immigrants²	Non-EU-15 immigrants
	2.7%	2.7%	5.9%	15.8%
¹ This group is made up largely of former French settlers, such as pieds-noirs in Northwest Africa, followed by former colonial citizens who had French citizenship at birth (such as was often the case for the native elite in French colonies), as well as to a lesser extent foreign-born children of French expatriates. A foreign country is understood as a country not part of France in 1999, so a person born for example in 1950 in Algeria, when Algeria was an integral part of France, is nonetheless listed as a person born in a foreign country in French statistics. ² An immigrant is a person born in a foreign country not having French citizenship at birth. An immigrant may have acquired French citizenship since moving to France, but is still considered an immigrant in French statistics. On the other hand, persons born in France with foreign citizenship (the children of immigrants) are not listed as immigrants.

As of circa 1998 Ivry-sur-Seine and Vitry had a combined Asian population of 3,600. That year about 250 Asians from those communes worked in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, and the overall demographics of Ivry and Vitry Asians were similar to those in the 13th arrondissement.^[5]

Administration

Vitry is divided into two cantons (districts):

Vitry-sur-Seine-1 counts 46,849 inhabitants (as of 2014)
Vitry-sur-Seine-2 counts 44,339 inhabitants (as of 2014)

Cités (Housing projects)

Cité Balzac
Cité Du Colonel Fabien
Lucien Français
Les Marronniers
La Sablière 200
La Commune de Paris
Mario Capra
Les Montagnards
Les Montagnes (La Vanoise, Pelvoux, Annapurna)
La Tourraine
Le Mail
Le Moulin Vert
Les Toits et Joie
Gabriel Peri
Cité Robespierre
Cité Barbusse
Le Square de l'Horloge
Cité Camille Groult
Les Malassis
Rouget de l'isle
La Glacière
Cité Bourgogne
Cité Verte
Cité Bleu (Camille Blanc)
Cité des Combattants
Roger Derry
Rosenberg
Cité des Peupliers-Manouchians
La Semise
Couzy

Education

As of 2016^[update] the commune has 23 preschools (maternelles),^[6] and 21 elementary schools,^[7] with a combined total of 9,000 students.^[8]

Public junior high schools (collèges): Danielle-Casanova, Adolphe-Chérioux, Lakanal, Gustave-Monod, and Collège Jules-Valles^[9]
- In addition Collège Romain-Rolland in Ivry-sur-Seine serves a portion of Vitry-sur-Seine
Senior high schools: Lycée Adolphe-Chérioux, Lycée Camille-Claudel, and Lycée Jean-Macé^[10]
- Lycée Romain-Rolland is in adjacent Ivry-sur-Seine
Private junior-senior high school: Collège-lycée privé Epin^[9]

Paris 12 Val de Marne University is the area university.^[11]

Twin towns – sister cities

Vitry-sur-Seine is twinned with:^[12]

Burnley, England, United Kingdom (1958)
Kladno, Czech Republic (1966)
Meissen, Germany (1973)

Notable people

113, rap group
Jimmy Briand, footballer
Cédric Bakambu, footballer
Sohane Benziane, murder victim
Cerrone, musician
Raymond Cordy, actor
Damien Dovy, karateka
Jean Dréville, film director
Daniel Duval, film actor, director, writer
Squeezie, youtuber
David Fleurival, footballer
Mickaël Hanany, athlete
Jimmy Kébé, footballer
Ritchie Makuma Mpasa, footballer
Richard Massolin, footballer
Doudou Masta, rapper
Maé-Bérénice Méité, figure skater
Jérémy Menez, footballer
Maguy Nestoret, athlete
Rohff, rapper
Arsène Tchakarian, French-Armenian historian and resistance fighter
Lassana Touré, basketball player

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
^ "Populations de référence 2022" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 19 December 2024.
^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Vitry-sur-Seine, EHESS (in French).
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
^ Guillon, Michelle. "The Chinese and Chinese Districts in Paris" (Chapter 11). In: Sinn, Elizabeth (editor). The Last Half Century of Chinese Overseas. Hong Kong University Press, 1 January 1998. ISBN 9622094465, 9789622094468. CITED: p. 197.
^ "Maternelles." Vitry-sur-Seine. Retrieved on September 7, 2016.
^ "Élémentaires." Vitry-sur-Seine. Retrieved on September 7, 2016.
^ "Ecoles." Vitry-sur-Seine. Retrieved on September 7, 2016.
^ ^a ^b "Collèges." Vitry-sur-Seine. Retrieved on September 7, 2016.
^ "Lycées." Vitry-sur-Seine. Retrieved on September 7, 2016.
^ "Enseignement supérieur." Vitry-sur-Seine. Retrieved on September 7, 2016.
^ "Le Mensuel Novembre 2020" (PDF). vitry94.fr (in French). Vitry-sur-Seine. November 2020. p. 13. Retrieved 2021-03-28.