Seine-Saint-Denis

**Seine-Saint-Denis** () is a French depairtment locatit in the Île-de-France region. In local slang, it is kent as "**quatre-vingt treize**" (i.e. "ninety-three") or "**neuf trois**" (i.e. "nine three"), efter the offeecial admeenistrative nummer o the depairtment, 93. 
The indwallers is cried *Séquano-Dionysiens*.

## Geografie
Seine-Saint-Denis is locatit tae the northeast o Paris. It haes a surface aurie o anerly 236&nbsp;km², makkin it ane o the smawest depairtments in Fraunce. Seine-Saint-Denis an twa ither sma depairtments, Hauts-de-Seine an Val-de-Marne, form a ring aroond Paris, kent as the *[[Petite Couronne]]* ("little croun"). Thay fuirm, thegither wi Paris an fower ither depairtments, the region o Île-de-France.

## Admeenistration
Seine-Saint-Denis is made up o 3 depairtmental arrondissements an 40 communes:



  Arrondissement o<br>Saint-Denis
  Arrondissement o<br>Bobigny
  Arrondissement o<br>Le Raincy


#Saint-Ouen
#Aubervilliers
#Saint-Denis
#L'Île-Saint-Denis
#Épinay-sur-Seine
#Villetaneuse
#Pierrefitte-sur-Seine
#Stains
#La Courneuve



Dugny
Le Bourget
Drancy
Bobigny
Bondy
Les Pavillons-sous-Bois
Noisy-le-Sec
Romainville
Pantin
Le Pré-Saint-Gervais
Les Lilas
Bagnolet
Montreuil
Rosny-sous-Bois
Villemomble



Neuilly-Plaisance
Neuilly-sur-Marne
Noisy-le-Grand
Gournay-sur-Marne
Gagny
Le Raincy
Clichy-sous-Bois
Montfermeil
Coubron
Vaujours
Livry-Gargan
Sevran
Aulnay-sous-Bois
Le Blanc-Mesnil
Villepinte
Tremblay-en-France




## History
Seine-Saint-Denis wis creatut in Januar 1968, throu the implementation o a law passed in Julie 1964. It wis formit frae the pairt o the (hitherto lairger) Seine depairtment tae the north an north-east o the Paris ring road (an the line o the auld ceety waws), thegither wi a sma slice takken frae Seine-et-Oise.

Seine-Saint-Denis haes a history as a veritable left-wing stranghauld, belangin the *[[ceinture rouge|ceinture rouge (red belt)]]* o Paris. The French Communist Pairty inspecially haes maintained a continued strang presence in the depairtment, an still controls the ceety cooncils in ceeties lik Saint-Denis, Bobigny, Le Blanc-Mesnil an La Courneuve. Till 2008, Seine-Saint-Denis an Val-de-Marne wis the anerlie depairtments whare the Communist Pairty haed a majority in the general cooncils but the 2008 cantonal elections saw the socialists acome the strangest group at the Seine-Saint-Denis general cooncil (while the Communist Pairty gained a majority in Allier).

A commune o Seine-Saint-Denis, Clichy-sous-Bois, wis the scene o the daith o twa young fowk whilk spairkit the naitionwide riots o hairst 2005. In October - November, 9,000 caurs wur burned an 3,000 rioters wur arrestit.

## Demographics
Seine-Saint-Denis is the French depairtment wi the heichest proportion o immigrants: 21.7% at the 1999 census (see table belaw). This figur disna include the childer o immigrants born on French soil as weel as some native elites frae umwhile French colonies an fowk wha came frae owerseas Fraunce. The ratio o ethnic minorities is difficult tae estimate accurately as French law prohibits the collection o ethnic data for census takkin purposes. Housomeivver estimates suggest thare 500,000 Muslims oot o a tot population o 1.4 million. Saint-Denis is hame tae the Union o French Islamic Organizations (UOIF) in the Bourget destrict, which annually hosts ane o Europe's major Muslim conferences, Paris-le-Bourget.

In 2005, 56.7 % o young unner 18 wur o foreign oreegin includin 38% o African origin (22% frae Maghreb an 16% frae Sub-Saharan Africae). Islam is the main releegion.

### Place o birth o residents

## Culture
A nummer o hip hop airtists come frae Seine-Saint-Denis, includin ane o the first major hip hop baunds in Fraunce, Suprême NTM (JoeyStarr an Kool Shen), as weel as Lord Kossity, or mair recent acts like Tandem, Sofiane Zermani or Sefyu.

## Miscellaneous topics
Seine-Saint-Denis wis scheduled tae be the steid o a 2004 Internaitional Exhibition. Housomeivver this event wis cancelled.

## References

## Freemit airtins
*  Prefectur wabsteid