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Key facts
- Country
- France
- Region
- Île-de-France
- Department
- Yvelines
- Arrondissement
- Versailles
- Canton
- Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt
- Commune
- Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt
- Area
- 4.24 km (1.64 sq mi)
- Population 2022
- 27,324
- Density
- 6,440/km (16,700/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Elevation
- 113–175 m (371–574 ft) , (avg. 145 m or 476 ft)
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Encyclopedic overview
Le Chesnay ( French pronunciation: [lə ʃɛnɛ] ) is a former commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt. It is located in the western suburbs of Paris, 16.7 km (10.4 mi) from the center of Paris.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Le Chesnay” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.