Gennevilliers

Gennevilliers
Gennevilliers
Commune
	Town centre of Gennevilliers
	Coat of arms
	Paris and inner ring départements
	Location of Gennevilliers
	Gennevilliers Gennevilliers
	Coordinates: 48°55′32″N 2°17′40″E / 48.92556°N 2.29444°E
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Hauts-de-Seine
Arrondissement	Nanterre
Canton	Gennevilliers
Intercommunality	Grand Paris
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Patrice Leclerc
Area 1	11.64 km2 (4.49 sq mi)
Population (2021)	49,410
• Density	4,200/km2 (11,000/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	92036 /92230
Elevation	21–33 m (69–108 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Gennevilliers (French pronunciation: [ʒœnvilje] ^ⓘ) is a commune in the northwestern suburbs of Paris, in the Hauts-de-Seine department of Île-de-France. It is located 9.1 km (5.7 mi) from the centre of Paris.

History

On 9 April 1929, one-fifth of the territory of Gennevilliers was detached and became the commune of Villeneuve-la-Garenne. Gennevilliers is the site of the main river port Port of Gennevilliers of Paris on the Seine.

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1793	1,155	—
1800	1,041	−1.47%
1806	1,005	−0.58%
1821	1,086	+0.52%
1831	1,106	+0.18%
1836	1,099	−0.13%
1841	1,115	+0.29%
1846	1,154	+0.69%
1851	1,166	+0.21%
1856	1,168	+0.03%
1861	1,630	+6.89%
1866	2,186	+6.05%
1872	1,897	−2.34%
1876	2,389	+5.93%
1881	3,245	+6.32%
1886	4,448	+6.51%
1891	5,837	+5.59%
1896	7,401	+4.86%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1901	10,056	+6.32%
1906	11,586	+2.87%
1911	14,003	+3.86%
1921	18,118	+2.61%
1926	24,120	+5.89%
1931	27,250	+2.47%
1936	29,369	+1.51%
1946	25,169	−1.53%
1954	33,137	+3.50%
1962	42,595	+3.19%
1968	46,074	+1.32%
1975	50,290	+1.26%
1982	45,396	−1.45%
1990	44,818	−0.16%
1999	42,513	−0.58%
2007	41,960	−0.16%
2012	42,919	+0.45%
2017	46,907	+1.79%

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

Transport

Gennevilliers is served by three stations on Paris Métro Line 13: Les Courtilles, Les Agnettes and Gabriel Péri. All three are at the border with the commune of Asnières-sur-Seine.

Gennevilliers is also served by two stations on RER C (Les Grésillons and Gennevilliers), as well as five stops on Île-de-France tramway Line 1.

Education

Schools in Gennevilliers include:

13 preschools^[5]
9 primary schools^[6]
3 junior high schools: Collège Guy-Môquet, Collège Édouard-Vaillant, Collège Louis-Pasteur^[7]

There is a senior high school, Lycée Galilée.^[8]

Natives/residents

Isabelle Adjani, actress
Pascal Tayot, French judoka who won a silver medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Thierry Vigneron, pole vault bronze medalist and former record holder
Garra Dembélé, footballer
Wesley Jobello, footballer
David Ngog, footballer (Bolton Wanderers, Liverpool F.C.)
Édouard Roger-Vasselin, tennis player
Jeanine Claes, dancer

Twin towns – sister cities

Gennevilliers is twinned with:^[9]

La Bañeza, Spain
Bergkamen, Germany
Al-Bireh, Palestine
Imola, Italy
Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, Poland
Wirral, England, United Kingdom

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020. Archived from the original on 28 June 2020. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Gennevilliers, EHESS (in French).
^ Population en historique depuis 1968 Archived 2022-07-25 at the Wayback Machine, INSEE
^ "Écoles maternelles Archived 2016-09-30 at the Wayback Machine." Genevilliers. Retrieved on 7 September 2016.
^ "Écoles élémentaires^{[permanent dead link‍]}." Genevilliers. Retrieved on 7 September 2016.
^ "Collèges Archived 2016-09-30 at the Wayback Machine." Gennevilliers. Retrieved on 7 September 2016.
^ "Lycée Galilée Archived 2015-09-19 at the Wayback Machine." Gennevilliers. Retrieved on 7 September 2016.
^ "Relations internationales". ville-gennevilliers.fr (in French). Gennevilliers. Archived from the original on 29 May 2023. Retrieved 14 November 2019.