Champigny-sur-Marne

Champigny-sur-Marne
Commune
City hall, Champigny-sur-Marne
Coat of arms
Paris and inner ring départements
Location of Champigny-sur-Marne
Champigny-sur-Marne Champigny-sur-Marne
Coordinates: 48°49′02″N 2°30′56″E
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Val-de-Marne
Arrondissement	Nogent-sur-Marne
Canton	Champigny-sur-Marne-1 and 2
Intercommunality	Grand Paris
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Laurent Jeanne
Area 1	11.3 km2 (4.4 sq mi)
Population  (2021)	77,724
• Density	6,900/km2 (18,000/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC 01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC 02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	94017 /94500
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Champigny-sur-Marne (French pronunciation: [ʃɑ̃piɲi syʁ maʁn] , literally Champigny on Marne) is a major city in the region of Île-de-France, France. It is located 12.5 km (7.8 mi) from the centre of Paris.

Name

Champigny-sur-Marne was originally called simply Champigny. The name Champigny ultimately comes from Medieval Latin Campaniacum, meaning "estate of Campanius", a Gallo-Roman landowner.

In 1897 the name of the commune officially became Champigny-sur-Marne (meaning "Champigny upon Marne"), in order to distinguish it from other communes of France also called Champigny.

Demographics

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 1,434 —     1800 1,286 −1.54% 1806 1,210 −1.01% 1821 1,263 0.29% 1831 1,434 1.28% 1836 1,459 0.35% 1841 1,533 0.99% 1846 1,619 1.10% 1851 1,610 −0.11% 1856 2,030 4.75% 1861 1,944 −0.86% 1866 2,353 3.89% 1872 2,190 −1.19% 1876 2,813 6.46% 1881 3,084 1.86% 1886 3,896 4.79% 1891 4,624 3.49% 1896 5,302 2.77%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 6,655 4.65% 1906 8,555 5.15% 1911 10,426 4.04% 1921 13,571 2.67% 1926 20,289 8.38% 1931 27,450 6.23% 1936 28,883 1.02% 1946 30,239 0.46% 1954 36,903 2.52% 1962 57,876 5.79% 1968 70,419 3.32% 1975 80,291 1.89% 1982 76,176 −0.75% 1990 79,486 0.53% 1999 74,237 −0.76% 2007 74,909 0.11% 2012 75,869 0.26% 2017 77,630 0.46%
Source: EHESS and INSEE (1968-2017)

Immigration

Place of birth of residents of Champigny-sur-Marne in 1999

Born in metropolitan France	Born outside metropolitan France
77.0%	23.0%
	Born in overseas France	Born in foreign countries with French citizenship at birth1	EU-15 immigrants2	Non-EU-15 immigrants
	2.3%	3.0%	7.5%	10.2%
1 This group is made up largely of former French settlers, such as pieds-noirs in Northwest Africa, followed by former colonial citizens who had French citizenship at birth (such as was often the case for the native elite in French colonies), as well as to a lesser extent foreign-born children of French expatriates. A foreign country is understood as a country not part of France in 1999, so a person born for example in 1950 in Algeria, when Algeria was an integral part of France, is nonetheless listed as a person born in a foreign country in French statistics. 2 An immigrant is a person born in a foreign country not having French citizenship at birth. An immigrant may have acquired French citizenship since moving to France, but is still considered an immigrant in French statistics. On the other hand, persons born in France with foreign citizenship (the children of immigrants) are not listed as immigrants.

Transport

Champigny-sur-Marne is served by Les Boullereaux – Champigny station on Paris RER line E.

Champigny-sur-Marne is also served by Champigny station on Paris RER line A. This station, although administratively located on the territory of the neighboring commune of Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, lies immediately across the river Marne from the town center of Champigny-sur-Marne and is thus used by people in Champigny.

The Paris Métro is planned to eventually serve the center of Champigny; the new station will be located along RN4, near the railway bridge known as Pont de la Plage.

Education

Primary schools:

• Preschools: Nine for the 9^e circonscription and 7 for the 18^e circonscription
• Elementary schools: Seven for the 9^e circonscription and 6 for the 18^e circonscription

Secondary schools:

• Junior high schools: Collège Willy-Ronis and Collège Paul-Vaillant-Couturier
• Senior high schools: Lycée Louise Michel, Lycée Marx-Dormoy, Lycée Langevin-Wallon, Lycée professionnel Gabriel-Péri

In addition Lycée professionnel et technologique Samuel-de-Champlain is in nearby Chennevières-sur-Marne

Notable people

• Djamel Belmadi (born 27 March 1976) is a retired Algerian footballer and is the current manager of Algeria National Football Team.
• Jeff Reine-Adélaïde (born 17 January 1998) is a professional footballer, currently plays as a midfielder for Nice, on loan from Lyon.
• Yan Valery (born 22 February 1999) is a French-Tunisian professional footballer, currently plays as a right-back for Birmingham City, on loan from Southampton.
• Adrien Regattin, (born 22 August 1991) is a Moroccan professional footballer, currently plays as a midfielder for Altay.
• Samuel Benchetrit (born 26 June 1973) is a French writer, actor, scenarist and director[1]. He is of Moroccan-Jewish descent.
• Nicolas Senzemba (born 25 March 1996) is a French footballer playing for CS Sedan Ardennes.
• Cyréna Samba-Mayela (born 31 October 2000) is a French athlete who competes in the 60 metres hurdles and 100 metres hurdles. She won the gold medal in the 60 m hurdles at the 2022 World Indoor Championships. French national record to 7.73 seconds. At the 2024 Summer Olympics, Samba-Mayela won a silver medal in the 100 m hurdles event.

International relations

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in France

Champigny-sur-Marne is twinned with:

• Alpiarça, Portugal
• Bernau bei Berlin, Germany
• Jalapa, Nicaragua
• Musselburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
• Rosignano Marittimo, Italy

See also

• Communes of the Val-de-Marne department

External links

• Champigny-sur-Marne official website (in French)
• Champigny Blog (in French)
• Historic D.B.racing cars of Champigny/Marne (in French)