Verrières-le-Buisson

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Verrières-le-Buisson

Total population

14,597

Elevation52 m

Land area9.91 km²

Coordinates48.75°, 2.27°

Demographic figures from INSEE. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

City facts

Facts from Wikidata (CC0).

Overview

Verrières-le-Buisson is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is 13.3 km (8.3 mi) from the centre of Paris, in the Essonne department just outside the inner ring of the Île-de-France.

History & geography

Excerpted from the corresponding Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA).

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Bernard Stiegler

French philosopher (1952–2020)

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Édouard Bineau

French pianist

Marie Augustin Jean Doulcet

French diplomat, ambassador of France to the Russian Empire, the People's Republic of Hungary, Norway, the Kingdom of Hungary & the Holy See (1865–1928)

Joseph Bara

French soldier

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Adolphe Roger

French painter (1800-1880)

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Auguste Bigand

French painter (1803-1875)

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Benjamin Lamarche

French choreographer

Bernard Fauconnier

French virologist and writer (1922–2015)

Bruno Borrione

Charles Colinet

engineer, promoter of trails in the forest of Fontainebleau and continuator of the work of Claude François Denecourt (1839-1905)

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Christophe Le Bihan

French triathlete and athletics competitor

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Christophe Sirchis

French musician

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Yvan Martin

French racing cyclist

Dominique Orliac

French politician

Françoise Chandernagor

French writer

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Guillaume Stanczyk

French television presenter

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Île-de-France

• Massy
  1.3 mi away · pop. 50,962
• Igny
  1.8 mi away · pop. 10,213
• Bièvres
  2.3 mi away · pop. 4,748
• Fresnes
  2.7 mi away · pop. 28,780
• Vauhallan
  2.8 mi away · pop. 2,066
• Bourg-la-Reine
  3.2 mi away · pop. 20,810
• Chilly-Mazarin
  3.7 mi away · pop. 19,938
• Villebon-sur-Yvette
  3.7 mi away · pop. 10,322
• Châtillon
  3.8 mi away · pop. 36,777
• Jouy-en-Josas
  4.6 mi away · pop. 7,928
• Paray-Vieille-Poste
  5.1 mi away · pop. 7,868
• Ballainvilliers
  5.1 mi away · pop. 4,752

Browse all places in Île-de-France →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Recently spotted species

Southern Green Stink Bug

Nezara viridula

Seen 2026-09-27

Common Wood-Pigeon

Columba palumbus

Seen 2026-09-27

common fig

Ficus carica

Seen 2026-09-27

Black-headed Gull

Chroicocephalus ridibundus

Seen 2026-09-27

Grey Heron

Ardea cinerea

Seen 2026-09-27

Mallard

Anas platyrhynchos

Seen 2026-09-27

Brown Marmorated Stink Bug

Halyomorpha halys

Seen 2026-09-27

Johnson grass

Sorghum halepense

Seen 2026-09-27

creeping thistle

Cirsium arvense

Seen 2026-09-27

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).

Official Identifiers