Charenton-le-Pont
Paris and inner ring departments
Location within Île-de-France region  Charenton-le-Pont
Administration
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Val-de-Marne
Arrondissement	Créteil
Canton	Charenton-le-Pont
Intercommunality	Charenton-le-Pont - Saint-Maurice
Mayor	Jean-Marie Brétillon (2001–2014)
Statistics
Elevation	28–57 m (92–187 ft) (avg. 36 m or 118 ft)
Land area1	1.85 km2 (0.71 sq mi)
Population2	28,679  (2006)
- Density	15,502 /km2 (40,150 /sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	94018/ 94220
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: 48°49′35″N 2°24′18″E / 48.8265°N 2.405°E / 48.8265; 2.405

Public park in Charenton-le-Pont, nearby Charenton-Ecoles metro station

Charenton-le-Pont is a commune in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 6.2 km (3.9 mi) from the centre of Paris. It is one of the most densely populated municipalities in Europe.

The Charenton Psychiatric Hospital is located in the neighbouring commune Charenton-Saint-Maurice, which changed its name in 1842 to Saint Maurice.

History [link]

On 1 January 1860, the city of Paris was enlarged by annexing neighbouring communes. On that occasion, half of the commune of Bercy was annexed to the city of the Paris, and the remaining half was annexed to Charenton-le-Pont.

In 1929, the commune of Charenton-le-Pont lost about a third of its territory when the city of Paris annexed the Bois de Vincennes, a small part of which belonged to Charenton-le-Pont.

Transport [link]

Charenton-le-Pont is served by two stations on Paris Métro Line 8: Liberté and Charenton — Écoles.

See also [link]

• Communes of the Val-de-Marne department

References [link]

• INSEE
• Mayors of Essonne Association (French)

External links [link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Charenton-le-Pont

• Charenton-le-Pont city council website (in French)
• Historical notes (in French)

v t e  Communes in the Metropolitan Area of Paris Population over 2 million City of Paris Population over 100,000 Argenteuil Boulogne-Billancourt Montreuil Saint-Denis Population over 75,000 Asnières-sur-Seine Aulnay-sous-Bois Champigny-sur-Marne Colombes Courbevoie Créteil Nanterre Rueil-Malmaison Saint-Maur-des-Fossés Versailles Vitry-sur-Seine Population over 50,000 Antony Aubervilliers Le Blanc-Mesnil Bondy Cergy Chelles Clamart Clichy Drancy Épinay-sur-Seine Évry Fontenay-sous-Bois Issy-les-Moulineaux Ivry-sur-Seine Levallois-Perret Maisons-Alfort Neuilly-sur-Seine Noisy-le-Grand Pantin Sarcelles Sartrouville Sevran Villejuif Population over 25,000 Alfortville Athis-Mons Bagneux Bagnolet Bezons Bobigny Bois-Colombes Brunoy Cachan Charenton-le-Pont Châtenay-Malabry Châtillon Chatou Le Chesnay Choisy-le-Roi Clichy-sous-Bois Conflans-Sainte-Honorine Corbeil-Essonnes La Courneuve Draveil Élancourt Ermont Franconville Fresnes Gagny La Garenne-Colombes Garges-lès-Gonesse Gennevilliers Gonesse Goussainville Grigny Guyancourt L'Haÿ-les-Roses Herblay Houilles Le Kremlin-Bicêtre Livry-Gargan Malakoff Mantes-la-Jolie Massy Meaux Melun Meudon Montigny-le-Bretonneux Montrouge Les Mureaux Neuilly-sur-Marne Nogent-sur-Marne Noisy-le-Sec Palaiseau Le Perreux-sur-Marne Pierrefitte-sur-Seine Plaisir Poissy Pontault-Combault Pontoise Puteaux Rambouillet Ris-Orangis Romainville Rosny-sous-Bois Saint-Cloud Saint-Germain-en-Laye Saint-Ouen Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Sannois Savigny-sur-Orge Savigny-le-Temple Stains Sucy-en-Brie Suresnes Taverny Thiais Trappes Tremblay-en-France Vanves Vigneux-sur-Seine Villemomble Villeneuve-Saint-Georges Villepinte Villiers-le-Bel Villiers-sur-Marne Vincennes Viry-Châtillon Yerres Population under 25,000 1,460 other communes

v t e Communes of the Val-de-Marne department Ablon-sur-Seine Alfortville Arcueil Boissy-Saint-Léger Bonneuil-sur-Marne Bry-sur-Marne Cachan Champigny-sur-Marne Charenton-le-Pont Chennevières-sur-Marne Chevilly-Larue Choisy-le-Roi Créteil Fontenay-sous-Bois Fresnes Gentilly L'Haÿ-les-Roses Ivry-sur-Seine Joinville-le-Pont Le Kremlin-Bicêtre Limeil-Brévannes Maisons-Alfort Mandres-les-Roses Marolles-en-Brie Nogent-sur-Marne Noiseau Orly Ormesson-sur-Marne Périgny Le Perreux-sur-Marne Le Plessis-Trévise La Queue-en-Brie Rungis Saint-Mandé Saint-Maur-des-Fossés Saint-Maurice Santeny Sucy-en-Brie Thiais Valenton Villecresnes Villejuif Villeneuve-le-Roi Villeneuve-Saint-Georges Villiers-sur-Marne Vincennes Vitry-sur-Seine

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