Évry is a city in France, préfecture (capital) of the Essonne département. Postal code: 91000. Population (1999): 49,437. In France, a préfecture is the capital city of a département. ... The French département of Essonne is part of the région of Île-de-France. ... The départements (or departments) are administrative units of France, roughly analogous to British counties and are now grouped into 22 metropolitan and four overseas régions. ... A postal code is a series of letters and/or digits appended to a postal address for the purpose of sorting mail. ...

Évry is located 27 kilometers southeast of Paris along the Seine River. Significant nearby towns include Corbeil-Essonnes, Ris-Orangis, Brétigny-sur-Orge, and Draveil. The Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques (INSEE) includes Evry in the Paris metropolitan area. A kilometre (American spelling: kilometer) (symbol: km) is a unit of length equal to 1000 metres (from the Greek words khilia = thousand and metro = count/measure). ... The Eiffel Tower has become the symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... This article is about the river in France; it should not be confused with the Senne, a much smaller river that flows through Brussels. ... Corbeil-Essonnes is a town in the French département of Essonne of about 40,000 inhabitants. ... INSEE is the French abbreviation for the French National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies (French: Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques). ... A metropolitan area is a large population center consisting of a large city and its adjacent zone of influence, or of several neighboring cities or towns and adjoining areas, with one or more large cities serving as its hub or hubs. ...

The Evry arrondissement contains 17 cantons, 52 communes, and has a population of 471,435. The city of Corbeil-Essonnes, which is the seat of a sub-préfecture, is nevertheless not the capital the arrondissement, and is part of Evry arrondissement. An arrondissement is an administrative division in some francophone countries: France Paris Main article: Arrondissements of Paris The city of Paris, in France is divided into 20 arrondissements. ...

The city of Evry is divided into two cantons of which it is the capital:

• Evry-Nord, 2 communes, population 38,358
• Evry-Sud, 3 communes, population 41,368

In 1965 Evry became part of the French new town initiative and took its current name. Before it was known as Évry-Petit-Bourg and had a population of only a few thousand. 1965 was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... A New town or planned community or planned city is a city, town, or community that was designed from scratch, and grew up more or less following the plan. ...

Évry is also the name of a commune in the Yonne département in France. Yonne is a French département named after the Yonne River. ...

Évry-Grégy-sur-Yerre is in the Seine-et-Marne département. Seine-et-Marne is a French département, named after the Seine and the Marne rivers, and located in the Île-de-France région. ...

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