Villecresnes

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Villecresnes

Total population

11,642

Elevation49 m

Land area5.62 km²

WeatherAvg high 61.5°F

Coordinates48.72°, 2.53°

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

City facts

Facts from Wikidata (CC0).

Overview

Villecresnes is a commune in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 20.1 km (12.5 mi) from the center of Paris.

Geography

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

Climate

10-year averages from ERA5 reanalysis (Open-Meteo).

Notable people from here

Olivier Adam

French writer and screenwriter (born 1974)

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Charlotte Delbo

French writer and resistance fighter (1913-1985)

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André Dunoyer de Segonzac

painter, graphic artist (1884-1974)

Régis Ovion

French cyclist

Éric Chahi

French computer game designer (born 1967)

Charles Kuwasseg

French painter (1833-1904)

Michel Deguy

French poet (1930–2022)

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Daniel Frasnay

French photographer (1928–2019)

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Lorg

Belgian cartoonist (1956–2022)

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Alfred Xavier de La Douespe du Fougerais

French lawyer, politician and journalist (1804-1874)

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Anny Cazenave

French space geodesist and space oceanographer

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Bernard Planque

French basketball player (1932–2016)

Bertrand Betsch

French writer

Christian Pelras

French writer and anthropologist (1934–2014)

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François Sevin

French philologist and historian (1682–1741)

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Georges Tate

French ancient historian and archaeologist (1943-2009)

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

Nearby places in Île-de-France

• Marolles-en-Brie
  1.6 mi away · pop. 4,689
• Noiseau
  3.8 mi away · pop. 4,610
• Lésigny
  4.1 mi away · pop. 7,102
• Férolles-Attilly
  4.4 mi away · pop. 1,255
• Ormesson-sur-Marne
  4.5 mi away · pop. 10,540
• Le Val Pompadour
  5 mi away
• Ablon-sur-Seine
  5.1 mi away · pop. 5,946
• Chennevières-sur-Marne
  5.2 mi away · pop. 18,367
• La Queue-en-Brie
  5.2 mi away · pop. 12,081
• Soisy-sur-Seine
  6.2 mi away · pop. 7,322
• Étiolles
  6.3 mi away · pop. 3,086
• Saint-Germain-lès-Corbeil
  6.8 mi away · pop. 7,472

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

Feral Pigeon

Columba livia domestica

Seen 2026-09-17

Box Bug

Gonocerus acuteangulatus

Seen 2026-09-17

Vespa velutina nigrithorax

Vespa velutina nigrithorax

Seen 2026-09-17

artist's bracket

Ganoderma applanatum

Seen 2026-09-17

chicken of the woods

Laetiporus sulphureus

Seen 2026-09-17

Common Blue

Polyommatus icarus

Seen 2026-09-17

Yellow Shell Moth

Camptogramma bilineata

Seen 2026-09-17

Great Willowherb

Epilobium hirsutum

Seen 2026-09-17

Mediterranean Katydid

Phaneroptera nana

Seen 2026-09-17

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

Official Identifiers