Veneux-les-Sablons

Veneux-les-Sablons
Part of Moret-Loing-et-Orvanne
Porte Nadon
Location of Veneux-les-Sablons
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Coordinates: 48°22′34″N 2°47′59″E
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Seine-et-Marne
Arrondissement	Fontainebleau
Canton	Montereau-Fault-Yonne
Commune	Moret-Loing-et-Orvanne
Area ^1	4.03 km^2 (1.56 sq mi)
Population  (2019)[1]	4,728
• Density	1,200/km^2 (3,000/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal code	77250
Elevation	42–93 m (138–305 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Veneux-les-Sablons (French pronunciation: [vənø le sablɔ̃] ^ⓘ) is a former commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Ile-de-France region in north-central France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the commune Moret-Loing-et-Orvanne.[2]

It is located near Moret-sur-Loing. Moret–Veneux-les-Sablons station has rail connections to Montargis, Melun, Montereau-Fault-Yonne, Laroche-Migennes and Paris.

Demographics

Inhabitants of Veneux-les-Sablons are known as Veneusiens.

Twin towns and sister cities

Veneux-les-Sablons is twinned with:

• Louny, Czech Republic, since 2004.
• Zschopau, Germany, since 2010.

See also

• Communes of the Seine-et-Marne department

References

1. Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2019, INSEE
2. Arrêté préfectoral 26 December 2016 (in French)

External links

• Office de tourisme de Moret Seine et Loing