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Commune of Bures-sur-Yvette
l'Église Saint Matthieu (the church of St. Matthew), XIIIth century
Location
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Map highlighting the commune of
Coordinates 48°41′50″N 2°09′43″E / 48.69722, 2.16194
Administration
Country France
Region Île-de-France
Department Essonne
Arrondissement Palaiseau
Canton Orsay
Intercommunality CA du Plateau de Saclay
Mayor Jean-François Vigier
(2008-2014)
Statistics
Elevation 56 m–163 m
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Population²
(1999)		 9,679
 - Density 2,321/km² (1999)
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code 91122/ 91440
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2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once. C D E
France

Bures-sur-Yvette is a French commune, located in the Essonne département in the Île-de-France région. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. Essonne is a French department in the region of Île-de-France. In the context of the political and geographic organization of France and many of its former colonies a department (département depaʁtǝmɑ̃ is an Administrative division Île-de-France ( pronounced /il d̪ə fʁɑ̃s/ literally "Island of France" is one of the twenty-six administrative regions of France. France is divided into 26 regions or régions (in French of which 21 are in continental Metropolitan France, one is the island of Corsica,

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Geography

Bures-sur-Yvette is located in the Vallée de Chevreuse on the river Yvette, along which the RER line B is laid. Vallée de Chevreuse (Chevreuse Valley is the name given to the valley of the Yvette River flowing though the Yvelines and Essonne departments The Yvette is a small River in southern Île-de-France ( France) left tributary of the Orge, which is a tributary of the Seine. The RER B is one of the five lines in the RER Rapid transit system serving Paris, France Adjacent communes are Orsay, Gif-sur-Yvette, Gometz-le-Châtel, and Les Ulis. Orsay is a commune of Essonne, Île-de-France located in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, France. Gif-sur-Yvette is a commune in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, France. Gometz le Châtel is a French commune of the Essonne département, located in a southern suburb of Paris (around 25 km Les Ulis is a Francilienne commune of Essonne located in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, France.

Demographics

At the 1999 census, the population was 9,679. A census is the procedure of acquiring information about every member of a given population The estimate for 2005 was 9,775.

Inhabitants of Bures-sur-Yvette are known as Buressois.

Research

Bures-sur-Yvette hosts the greater part of the Orsay campus of the Paris University XI, as well as the IHÉS (Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques). Paris-Sud 11 University ( ( Université Paris-Sud 11) is a French university distributed among several campuses in the southern suburb of Paris (including The Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques ( IHÉS, en Institute of Advanced Scientific Studies is a French institute supporting advanced research in

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The following is a list of the 196 communes of the Essonne département, in France.
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