Herblay | ||
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 The old village of Herblay, alongside the River Seine | ||
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 Location (in red) within Paris inner and outer suburbs | ||
  Herblay Location (in red) within Paris inner and outer suburbs  Herblay Herblay (Île-de-France (region)) | ||
| Coordinates: 48°59′27″N2°09′59″E / 48.9908°N 2.1664°E Coordinates: 48°59′27″N2°09′59″E / 48.9908°N 2.1664°E | ||
| Country | France | |
| Region | Île-de-France | |
| Department | Val-d'Oise | |
| Arrondissement | Argenteuil | |
| Canton | Herblay | |
| Intercommunality | CA Val Parisis | |
| Government | ||
| • Mayor (2014–2020) | Philippe Rouleau | |
| Area 1 | 12.74 km2 (4.92 sq mi) | |
| Population (2013)2 | 27,378 | |
| • Density | 2,100/km2 (5,600/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) | |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) | |
| INSEE/Postal code | 95306 /95220 | |
| Elevation | 20–91 m (66–299 ft) | |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting : residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once. | ||
Herblay is a commune in the department of Val-d'Oise, France. It is located 20.2 km (12.6 mi) from the center of Paris, in its northwest suburbs. It is twinned with Yeovil, UK.
The commune is a level of administrative division in the French Republic. French communes are analogous to civil townships and incorporated municipalities in the United States and Canada, Gemeinden in Germany, comuni in Italy or ayuntamiento in Spain. The United Kingdom has no exact equivalent, as communes resemble districts in urban areas, but are closer to parishes in rural areas where districts are much larger. Communes are based on historical geographic communities or villages and are vested with significant powers to manage the populations and land of the geographic area covered. The communes are the fourth-level administrative divisions of France.
Val-d'Oise is a French department, created in 1968 after the split of the Seine-et-Oise department and located in the Île-de-France region. In local slang, it is known as "quatre-vingt quinze" or "neuf cinq". It gets its name from the Oise River, a major tributary of the Seine, which crosses the region after having started in Belgium and flowed through north-eastern France. Charles de Gaulle Airport, France's main international airport is partially located in Roissy-en-France, a commune of Val d'Oise.
France, officially the French Republic, is a country whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe and several overseas regions and territories. The metropolitan area of France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean. It is bordered by Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany to the northeast, Switzerland and Italy to the east, and Andorra and Spain to the south. The overseas territories include French Guiana in South America and several islands in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans. The country's 18 integral regions span a combined area of 643,801 square kilometres (248,573 sq mi) and a total population of 67.3 million. France, a sovereign state, is a unitary semi-presidential republic with its capital in Paris, the country's largest city and main cultural and commercial centre. Other major urban areas include Lyon, Marseille, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Lille and Nice.
