Élancourt () is a

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in the

Yvelines Yvelines () is a department in the western part of the Île-de-France region in Northern France. In 2019, it had a population of 1,448,207.department, and the

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region, north central

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. It is located in the western suburbs of

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...

, 30.6 km (19.0 mi) from the center of Paris, in the " new town" of

Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines () is a new town and an agglomeration community in the French department of Yvelines. It is one of the original five villes nouvelles (new towns) of Paris and was named after the Saint Quentin Pond, which was chosen to ...

Transport

Élancourt is not linked directly to the Paris Métro, RER, or suburban rail network. The closest station to Élancourt is

La Verrière station La Verrière is a railway station serving La Verrière, a western suburb of Paris, France. It is situated on the Paris–Brest railway. It is served by Transilien Line N trains from Paris-Montparnasse Gare Montparnasse (; Montparnasse statio ...

on the

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and

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suburban rail lines. This station is located in the neighbouring commune of

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, 1.4 km (0.9 mi) from the town center of Élancourt.

Population

Tourism

France Miniature France Miniature is a miniature park tourist attraction in Élancourt, France featuring scale models of major French landmarks and monuments in an outdoor park. Description France Miniature is a 5-hectare (12-acre) outdoor park in the shape of ...

is a tourist attraction in Élancourt featuring scale models of major French landmarks and monuments in an outdoor park.

Education

The commune has 13 preschools and 10 elementary schools. Public junior high schools in Élancourt:Collèges et Lycées
" Élancourt. Retrieved on September 3, 2016. *Collège de l’Agiot *Collège de la Clef de Saint-Pierre *Collège Louis Pergaud In addition the community is served by Collège Alexandre Dumas and two public senior high schools/sixth form colleges, Lycée Dumont d’Urville and Lycée Polyvalent des 7 Mares, all in nearby

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Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (, ''UVSQ'') is a French public university created in 1991, located in the department of Yvelines and, since 2002, in Hauts-de-Seine. It is a constituent university of the federal Paris-Saclay Un ...

provides tertiary educational services in the area.

Twin towns – sister cities

Élancourt is twinned with: *

Laubach Laubach is a town of approximately 10,000 people in the Gießen region of Hesse, Germany. Laubach is known as a ', a climatic health resort. It is situated east of Gießen. Surrounding Laubach are the towns of Hungen, Grünberg, Schotten and ...

, Germany, since 1975 *

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, Italy, since 1997 *

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, Germany, since 2003 *

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, Malta

References

External links

* http://www.ville-elancourt.fr/ Communes of Yvelines Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Venues of the 2024 Summer Olympics Olympic cycling venues {{Summer-Olympic-venue-stub