Cergy
Town hall
Location (in red) within Paris inner and outer suburbs
Location within Île-de-France region  Cergy
Administration
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Val-d'Oise
Arrondissement	Pontoise
Intercommunality	Cergy-Pontoise
Mayor	Dominique Lefebvre (2001–2008)
Statistics
Elevation	21–121 m (69–397 ft) (avg. 25 m or 82 ft)
Land area1	11.68 km2 (4.51 sq mi)
Population2	58,265  (2006)
- Density	4,988 /km2 (12,920 /sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	95127/ 95000
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.

Coordinates: 49°02′10″N 2°03′47″E / 49.0361°N 2.0631°E / 49.0361; 2.0631

Cergy (French pronunciation: [sɛʁ.ʒi]) is a commune in the northwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 27.8 km (17.3 mi) 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.

Name[link]

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

Administration[link]

Map of the quarters of Cergy.

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).

Twin towns and sister cities[link]

• Columbia, Maryland, United States.
• Erkrath, Germany.
• Liaoyang, People's Republic of China.
• Porto Novo, Benin.
• Tres Cantos, Spain
• West Lancashire, United Kingdom.

Demographics[link]

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 pace, to reach 54,500 as of 2004 estimates. However, on 1 January 2000, the commune lost a portion of its territory (net 0.03 km² (0.012 sq mi) 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, and the land area from 11.68 km² (4.51 sq mi) to 11.65 km².

Immigration[link]

Port Cergy[link]

Port Cergy.

Port Cergy is a marina on the River Oise at pk 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[link]

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[link]

Train station of Cergy le Haut.

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. Cergy is served by direct buses from Charles de Gaulle International Airport.^[2]

The bus company STIVO provides 17 lines of buses to travel within the agglomeration of Cergy.

Education[link]

• Cergy-Pontoise University
• ESSEC Business School (grande école)
• ENSEA École Nationale Supérieure de l'Électronique et de ses Applications
• ITIN, IT-Institute (École supérieure d'informatique, réseaux et systèmes d'information)
• EISTI, École internationale des sciences du traitement de l'information
• Web site of Professional Bachelor’s degree in International Trade and International Tourism (Cergy-Pontoise University)

Crime[link]

Cergy-Pontoise has 137.62 criminal incidents per 1000 inhabitants, far higher than national average (83 per 1000) and even higher than the crime rate of the Val-d'Oise department (88.15 per 1000). Cergy-pontoise is one of the most dangerous city of the Val-d'Oise département after Argenteuil.

In popular culture[link]

EDF-GDF tower, Cergy-Pontoise (France)

The town was used as a filming location for Henri Verneuil's film I... comme Icare released in 1979, starring Yves Montand. The EDF-GDF tower designed by architect Renzo Moro is the building from which the shots were fired to assassinate president Marc Jarry. The country that the movie depicts is not named, although the United States is perhaps suggested. The filmmakers chose the modern and innovative architecture of the new city to avoid depicting any particular country.^[3]

See also[link]

• Communes of the Val-d'Oise department

References[link]

• INSEE
• Association of Mayors of the Val d’Oise (French)

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Cergy

• Cergy official website (French)
• Internet site of the Université de Cergy-Pontoise (French)
• portcergy.com (French)
• Mérimée database – Cultural heritage (French)
• Land use (IAURIF) (English)
• Accommodation and Travel in Cergy-Pontoise (English)

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