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Yvelines |
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| Coat of arms of the Yvelines department | |
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| Department number: | 78 |
| Region: | Île-de-France |
| Prefecture: | Versailles |
| Subprefectures: | Mantes-la-Jolie Rambouillet Saint-Germain- en-Laye |
| Arrondissements: | 4 |
| Cantons: | 39 |
| Communes: | 262 |
| President of the General Council: | Pierre Bédier |
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| Population | Ranked 8th |
| -Jan.1, 2006 estimate -March 8, 1999 census |
1,398,496 1,354,304 |
| Population density: | 612/km² |
| Land area¹: | 2,284 km² |
| ¹ French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, and lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km². | |
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Yvelines is a French department in the region of Île-de-France.
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Yvelines was created from the western part of the defunct department of Seine-et-Oise on January 1, 1968 in accordance with a law passed on January 10, 1964 and a décret d'application (a decree specifying how a law should be enforced) from February 26, 1965.
It gained the communes of Châteaufort and Toussus-le-Noble from the adjacent department of Essonne in 1969.
Yvelines is bordered by the departments of Val-d'Oise on the north, Hauts-de-Seine on the east, Essonne on the southeast, Eure-et-Loir on the southwest, and Eure on the west.
The eastern part of the department, as well as its northern part along the Seine, are part of the Paris metropolitan area, but the rest of the department is rural, much of it covered by the Rambouillet Forest.
Besides Versailles (the prefecture) and the subprefectures of Mantes-la-Jolie, Rambouillet, and Saint-Germain-en-Laye, important cities include Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, Poissy, Les Mureaux, Houilles, Plaisir, Sartrouville, Chatou, Le Chesnay, and the new agglomeration community of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines.
Two regional national parks can be found in Yvelines: the parc de la Haute Vallée de Chevreuse and part of the parc du Vexin Français.
Yvelines is home to one of France's best known golf courses, La Tuilerie-Bignon, in the village of Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche.
See also Map of Yvelines.
In French, a man from Yvelines is called Yvelinois (plural Yvelinois); a woman is Yvelinoise (plural Yvelinoises).
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