Lognes

Lognes is a municipality with 14,410 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in the French department of Seine -et -Marne Île -de -France region. It belongs to the canton Noisiel. The inhabitants are called Lognots. With a population of more than 40 % of immigrants from Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, the city is also called the first Asian city of France.

Location

Lognes lies to the east of Paris, about 21 kilometers from the center. The municipality belongs to the municipality composite Marne -la- Vallée, a Ville nouvelle east of Paris. The community network has emerged on August 17, 1972 from the merger of 26 Communes of the departments of Seine -et -Marne, Seine- Saint- Denis and Val -de- Marne and is managed administratively into four sections since March 24, 1987. Lognes belongs to the section Val Maubuée. At this Kommunalverband also include Champs -sur- Marne, Torcy, Émerainville, Noisiel and Croissy -Beaubourg.

Lognes is bounded on the north-west of Noisiel, in the northeast of Torcy, in the southeast, Croissy -Beaubourg and the Southwest Émereainville. In the north- west of the municipality are the lakes of Maubuée.

Population and community

Even in 1975 the place was one of 248 inhabitants. The boom came in the 1980s, and the town grew up (1982 ) 1,707 inhabitants. In the early 1990s, there were already 12,973 inhabitants ( 1990). Since the late 1990s, the number has more than 14,000 inhabitants settled (1999: 14,215, 2006: 14,614, 2011: 14,410 ).

Monuments

• Church Saint -Martin (1893-1903 built )
• Château de Mandinet

Traffic

Lognes is reachable from Paris by the RER A line. Passing through the municipality, the A4 and part of the francilienne. In the southwest of the community is a part of the Aerodrome Lognes - Émerainville.

Community partnership

Since 2001, a community partnership with the Cambodian town of Kampot.