Oise
Oise | |
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Coordinates: 49°23′N 02°25′E / 49.383°N 2.417°ECoordinates: 49°23′N 02°25′E / 49.383°N 2.417°E | |
Country | France |
Region | Hauts-de-France |
Prefecture | Beauvais |
Subprefectures | Clermont Compiègne Senlis |
Government | |
• President of the General Council | Nadège Lefebvre (LR) |
Area | |
• Total | 5,860 km2 (2,260 sq mi) |
Population (Jan. 2019)[1] | |
• Total | 829,419 |
• Rank | 26th |
• Density | 140/km2 (370/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Department number | 60 |
Arrondissements | 4 |
Cantons | 21 |
Communes | 679 |
^1 French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, and lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km2 |
Oise (/wɑːz/ WAHZ; French: [waz] (listen); Picard: Oése) is a department in the north of France. It is named after the river Oise. Inhabitants of the department are called Oisiens (French: [wazjɛ̃]) or Isariens, after the Latin name for the river, Isara.
History[edit]
Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
---|---|---|
1801 | 350,854 | — |
1821 | 375,817 | +0.34% |
1831 | 397,725 | +0.57% |
1841 | 398,868 | +0.03% |
1851 | 403,857 | +0.12% |
1861 | 401,417 | −0.06% |
1872 | 396,804 | −0.11% |
1881 | 404,555 | +0.22% |
1891 | 401,835 | −0.07% |
1901 | 407,808 | +0.15% |
1911 | 411,028 | +0.08% |
1921 | 387,760 | −0.58% |
1931 | 407,432 | +0.50% |
1936 | 402,569 | −0.24% |
1946 | 396,724 | −0.15% |
1954 | 435,308 | +1.17% |
1962 | 481,289 | +1.26% |
1968 | 540,988 | +1.97% |
1975 | 606,320 | +1.64% |
1982 | 661,781 | +1.26% |
1990 | 725,603 | +1.16% |
1999 | 766,441 | +0.61% |
2006 | 792,975 | +0.49% |
2016 | 823,542 | +0.38% |
source:[2] |
Oise is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790. It was created from part of the province of Île-de-France and Picardy.
After the coalition victory at Waterloo, the department was occupied by British troops between June 1815 and November 1818.
In March 2021, local Member of Parliament Olivier Dassault was killed in a plane crash.[3]
Geography[edit]
Oise is part of the current region of Hauts-de-France and is situated 35 km north of Paris. It is surrounded by the departments of Somme, Aisne, Seine-et-Marne, Val-d'Oise, Eure, and Seine-Maritime.
Principal towns[edit]
Rank | Commune | Canton | Arrondissement | Population (2017) |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Beauvais | Beauvais-1 Beauvais-2 |
Beauvais | 56,254 |
2 | Compiègne | Compiègne-1 Compiègne-2 |
Compiègne | 40,199 |
3 | Creil | Creil | Senlis | 35,657 |
4 | Nogent-sur-Oise | Nogent-sur-Oise | Senlis | 20,033 |
5 | Crépy-en-Valois | Crépy-en-Valois | Senlis | 15,090 |
6 | Méru | Méru | Beauvais | 14,614 |
7 | Senlis | Senlis | Senlis | 14,277 |
8 | Noyon | Noyon | Compiègne | 13,519 |
9 | Montataire | Montataire | Senlis | 13,263 |
10 | Pont-Sainte-Maxence | Pont-Sainte-Maxence | Senlis | 12,209 |
Politics[edit]
Current National Assembly Representatives[edit]
Tourism[edit]
The major tourist attraction of the department is the Parc Astérix, which opened in 1989. Other very interesting sites are Beauvais Cathedral, the Chateau de Pierrefonds, restored by Viollet-le-Duc, and the art collection of the Château de Chantilly, which is one of the largest outside Paris.
Art gallery in the Château de Chantilly
Rollercoaster at the Parc Astérix
Renault FT in the Glade of the Armistice
Twinned county[edit]
Oise is twinned with Bedfordshire.
One of the villages along the river Oise is Auvers-sur-Oise, famous for having been visited by several impressionist artists. This is where Vincent van Gogh spent his last 70 days and is his and his brother Theo's resting place.
See also[edit]
- Arrondissements of the Oise department
- Cantons of the Oise department
- Communes of the Oise department
- Monument aux morts (Oise)
References[edit]
- ^ "Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2019". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2020.
- ^ Site sur la Population et les Limites Administratives de la France
- ^ "French MP and billionaire Olivier Dassault dies in helicopter crash". BBC News. 2021-03-07. Retrieved 2021-03-08.
- ^ Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2017, INSEE
- ^ http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/
External links[edit]
- (in French) Prefecture website
- (in French) General Council website
- (in French) oise directory website
- (in English) Oise Tourist Board