Bobigny

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Bobigny ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}) is a commune, or town, in the northeastern suburbs of Paris, Île-de-France, France. It is located Template:Convert from the centre of Paris. Bobigny is the prefecture (capital city) of the Seine-Saint-Denis department, as well as the seat of the Arrondissement of Bobigny. It is the 11th most populous commune in Seine-Saint-Denis (2019).<ref>Populations légales 2019: 93 Seine-Saint-Denis, INSEE</ref>

Inhabitants are called Balbyniens. Bobigny is the seat of the Seine-Saint-Denis prefecture. The first IKEA store in France was located in this commune.

UrbanismEdit

TypologyEdit

Bobigny is an urban commune, as it is one of the dense or intermediate density communes, as defined by the Insee communal density grid.Template:Efn<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It belongs to the urban unit of Paris, an inter-departmental conurbation comprising 407 communes<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and 10,785,092 inhabitants in 2017, of which it is a suburban commune.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The commune is also part of the functional area of Paris Template:Efn where it is located in the main population and employment centre of the functional area. This area comprises 1,929 communes.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

TransportEdit

Bobigny is served by two stations on Paris Métro Line 5: Bobigny – Pantin – Raymond Queneau and Bobigny – Pablo Picasso. It can also be reached from the outer terminus of Paris Métro Line 7 at La Courneuve.

EconomyEdit

Valeo has management branches (Valeo Transmissions group and Valeo Friction Materials group) here. It was also the manufacturing base used by Meccano for French Dinky Toys from 1933 until 1970, when the factory was closed and later demolished. Production of Dinky Toys was then transferred to the Meccano factory in Calais until 1972, when the last new model, a Renault 4 la poste, was produced.

ToponymyEdit

Its name is derived from Roman-period Balbiniacum, "the place of Balbo or Balbinus or Balbinius"; or "of the dumb or silent man/men" (Gaulish: Irish Gaelic balbh = "dumb, silent").

HistoryEdit

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The Hôtel de Ville

During the Second World War, approximately 20,000 jews were transported Bobigny station to their deaths in Nazi concentration camps.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The Hôtel de Ville was completed in 1974.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

PopulationEdit

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List of mayorsEdit

Start	End	Name
1944	1955	Léon Pesch	PCF
1955	1965	René Guesnier	PCF
1965	1995	Georges Valbon	PCF
1995	2006	Bernard Birsinger	PCF
2006	2014	Catherine Peyge	PCF
2014	2020	Stéphane de Paoli	UDI
2020	2026	Abdel Sadi	PCF

EducationEdit

The commune has 14 public preschools (écoles maternelles), 15 public elementary schools, four public junior high schools, three public senior high schools/sixth-form colleges, and one private school.<ref>"Scolarité et enseignements." Bobigny. Retrieved on 4 September 2016.</ref>

Junior high schools: Collège Auguste Delaune, Collège Jean-Pierre Timbaud, Collège Pierre Sémard, and Collège République et SEGPA<ref name=Secschools>"Enseignement secondaire." Bobigny. Retrieved on 4 September 2016.</ref>
Senior high/Sixth-form: Lycée professionnel Alfred Costes, Lycée Louise Michel, Lycée polyvalent André Sabatier<ref name=Secschools/>
École, collège et lycée Charles Péguy is a private school from elementary to senior high/sixth-form<ref name=Secschools/>

There is also a school of hotel management, École hôtelière de Bobigny.<ref name=Secschools/>

The Bobigny campus of Paris 13 University is its second-largest. It focuses on the medical sciences, and hosts a strong medical degree.