Orly
Orly is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 12.7 km (7.9 mi) from the center of Paris.
Orly | |
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The church of Saint-Germain-de-Paris, in Orly | |
Coat of arms | |
Paris and inner ring departments | |
Location of Orly | |
Orly Paris and inner ring departments Orly Orly (Île-de-France (region)) | |
Coordinates: 48°44′38″N 2°23′34″E | |
Country | France |
Region | Île-de-France |
Department | Val-de-Marne |
Arrondissement | L'Haÿ-les-Roses |
Canton | Orly |
Intercommunality | Grand Paris |
Government | |
• Mayor | Christine Janodet |
Area 1 | 6.69 km2 (2.58 sq mi) |
Population (2017-01-01)[1] | 23,801 |
• Density | 3,600/km2 (9,200/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
INSEE/Postal code | 94054 /94310 |
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. |
The name of Orly came from Latin Aureliacum, "the villa of Aurelius".
Orly Airport partially lies on the territory of the commune of Orly,[2] which gave its name to the airport.
Transport
Orly is served by two stations on Paris RER line C: Les Saules and Orly – Ville.
Education
Schools in Orly:[3]
- Preschools (écoles maternelles): Cité Jardins, Jean Moulin, Joliot-Curie, Marcel Cachin, Noyer-Grenot, Paul Eluard, Romain Rolland
- Elementary schools (écoles élémentaires): Cité Jardins, Centre, Jean Moulin, Joliot-Curie, Marcel Cachin A and B, Paul Eluard A and B, Romain Rolland A and B
- Junior high schools: Collège Dorval and Collège Desnos
- One senior high school/sixth-form college: Lycée des métiers Armand Guillaumin
Lycée Guillaume Apollinaire, a senior high/sixth-form in Thiais; and Lycée Georges Brassens, a senior high/sixth-form in Villeneuve-le-Roi, are nearby.[3]
Personalities
- Kery James, rapper
- Dry, rapper
- Jean Fernand, an impressionist painter
gollark: Suggested xkcd telescope names: The Very Large Telescope ☑ The Extremely Large Telescope ☑ The Overwhelmingly Large Telescope ☑ (Canceled) The Oppressively Colossal Telescope ☐ The Mind-numbingly Vast Telescope ☐ The Despair Telescope ☐ The Cataclysmic Telescope ☐ The Telescope of Devastation ☐ The Nightmare Scope ☐ The Infinite Telescope ☐ The Final Telescope ☐ I propose these names for colliders:The Oppressively Colossal Collider
gollark: Future Circular Collider is an awful name.
gollark: Modern computers are theoretically a few thousand times faster but thanks to the power of bloatware mostly run at the same apparent speeds.
gollark: Well, everything was worse in the bad old days.
gollark: My *internet connection* is barely faster than 7Mbps.
References
- "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
- "Plan d'Orly" (PDF). Mairie-Orly. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-11-18. Retrieved 2009-10-06.
- "Etablissements scolaires." Orly. Retrieved on September 3, 2016.
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