Bondy

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Commune of Bondy
Location
Paris and inner ring départements
Coordinates	48°54′08″N, 2°28′58″E
Administration
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Seine-Saint-Denis
Arrondissement	Bobigny
Canton	Chief town of 2 cantons
Intercommunality	none as of 2005
Statistics
Land area¹	5.47 km²
Population² (Jan. 1, 2005 estimate) (March 8, 1999 census)	54,000 46,826
- Density (2005)	9,872/km²
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	93010/ 93140
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 mi² or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
² Population sans doubles comptes: single count of residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel).

Bondy is a commune in the northeastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 10.9 km. (6.8 miles) from the center of Paris.

Contents 1 Name 2 History 3 Demographics 3.1 Immigration 4 Administration 5 Transport 6 Miscellaneous 7 External link

[edit] Name

The name Bondy was recorded for the first time around AD 600 as Bonitiacum, meaning "estate of Bonitius", a Gallo-Roman landowner.

[edit] History

During the Middle Ages Bondy was primarily forest. The forest of Bondy was a well-known haunt of bandits and robbers and extremely dangerous.

On January 3, 1905, a third of the territory of Bondy was detached and became the commune of Les Pavillons-sous-Bois.

[edit] Demographics

[edit] Immigration

Place of birth of Bondy's residents in 1999 Born in Metropolitan France Born outside of Metropolitan France 72.2% 27.8% Born in Overseas France Born in foreign countries with French citizenship at birth¹ EU-15 immigrants² Non-EU-15 immigrants 3.6% 2.7% 3.4% 18.1% ¹This group is made up in large part of pieds-noirs from Northwest Africa, then also of former colonial citizens who had French citizenship at birth (such as was often the case for native elites in the French colonies), and in a smaller measure of foreign-born children of French expatriates. Note that a foreign country is understood as a country not part of France as of 1999, so a person born for example in 1950 in Algeria, at which time Algeria was an integral part of France, is nonetheless listed as a person born in a foreign country by French statistics. ² An immigrant is a person born in a foreign country and who did not have French citizenship at birth. Note that an immigrant may have acquired French citizenship since moving to France, but is still considered an immigrant by French statistics. On the other hand, persons born in France with a foreign citizenship (the children of immigrants) are not listed as immigrants.

[edit] Administration

Bondy is divided into two cantons:

• The canton of Bondy-Nord-Ouest (North-West) account 24,953 inhabitants (53.3%);
• The canton of Bondy-Sud-Est (South-East) account 21,873 inhabitants (46.7%).

[edit] Transport

Bondy is served by Bondy station on Paris RER line E and on the Transilien Paris – Est suburban rail line.

[edit] Miscellaneous

Bondy was the birthplace of Claude-Carloman de Rulhière (1735-1791), poet and historian.

[edit] External link

• Town council website (in French)