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Oise

Department of France

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map_caption	Location of Oise in France
coordinates
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	France
subdivision_type1	Region
subdivision_name1	Hauts-de-France
seat_type	Prefecture
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parts_type	Subprefectures
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p1	Clermont
Compiègne
Senlis
leader_party	LR
leader_title	President of the Departmental Council
leader_name	Nadège Lefebvre
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area_footnotes
area_total_km2	5860
population_total
population_as_of
population_footnotes
population_rank	26th
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blank2_name_sec2	Communes
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footnotes	French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, and lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km2

Compiègne Senlis

Oise ( ; ; ) is a department in the north of France. It is named after the river Oise. Inhabitants of the department are called Oisiens () or Isariens, after the Latin name for the river, Isara. It had a population of 829,419 in 2019.

History

Oise is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790. It was created from part of the province of Île-de-France and Picardy.

After the coalition victory at Waterloo, the department was occupied by British troops between June 1815 and November 1818.

In March 2021, local Member of Parliament Olivier Dassault was killed in a plane crash.

Geography

Oise is part of the current region of Hauts-de-France and is situated 35 km north of Paris. It is surrounded by the departments of Somme, Aisne, Seine-et-Marne, Val-d'Oise, Eure, and Seine-Maritime.

Principal towns

The most populous commune is Beauvais, the prefecture. As of 2019, there are 13 communes with more than 10,000 inhabitants. The 10 most populous communes are:

Commune	Population (2019)
Beauvais	57,071
Compiègne	40,615
Creil	36,169
Nogent-sur-Oise	20,780
Crépy-en-Valois	14,788
Senlis	14,760
Méru	14,452
Montataire	13,645
Noyon	13,190
Pont-Sainte-Maxence	12,602

Demographics

Politics

The president of the Departmental Council is Nadège Lefebvre, elected in 2017.

Presidential elections 2nd round

Election	Party	%	2nd place candidate	Party	%
National Rally}}"	2022	Marine Le Pen	RN	52.73	Emmanuel Macron	LREM
En Marche!}}"	2017	Emmanuel Macron	LREM	53.28	Marine Le Pen	FN
Union for a Popular Movement}}"	2012	Nicolas Sarkozy	UMP	52.66	François Hollande	PS
Union for a Popular Movement}}"	2007	Nicolas Sarkozy	UMP	58.28	Ségolène Royal	PS
Rally for the Republic}}"	2002	Jacques Chirac	RPR	74.93	Jean-Marie Le Pen	FN

Current National Assembly Representatives

Constituency	Party
National Rally }}"	Oise's 1st constituency	Claire Marais-Beuil
National Rally}}"	Oise's 2nd constituency	Philippe Ballard
National Rally}}"	Oise's 3rd constituency	Alexandre Sabatou
La République En Marche!}}"	Oise's 4th constituency	Éric Woerth
National Rally }}"	Oise's 5th constituency	Frédéric-Pierre Vos
National Rally}}"	Oise's 6th constituency	Michel Guiniot
National Rally }}"	Oise's 7th constituency	David Magnier

Tourism

The major tourist attraction of the department is the Parc Astérix, which opened in 1989. Other interesting sites are Beauvais Cathedral, the Château de Pierrefonds, restored by Viollet-le-Duc, and the art collection of the Château de Chantilly, which is one of the largest outside Paris.

File:Chateau de Chantilly 009.JPG|Art gallery in the Château de Chantilly File:Beauvais 1.JPG|Beauvais Cathedral File:Goudurix.jpg|Rollercoaster at the Parc Astérix File:Renault FT17 IMG 8406.jpg|Renault FT in the Glade of the Armistice File:Chateau de Pierrefonds.jpg|Château de Pierrefonds

Twinned county

Oise is twinned with Bedfordshire in England. It is also twinned with the Indonesian regency of Karanganyar and the Chinese provinces of Shandong and Zhejiang.

One of the villages along the river Oise is Auvers-sur-Oise, famous for having been visited by several impressionist artists. This is where Vincent van Gogh spent his last 70 days and is his and his brother Theo's resting place.

References

(4 May 2022). "Répertoire national des élus: les conseillers départementaux".
[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/fichier/6011060/dep60.pdf Populations légales 2019: 60 Oise], INSEE
(2021-03-07). "French MP and billionaire Olivier Dassault dies in helicopter crash". BBC News.
"Historique de l'Oise".
"Évolution et structure de la population en 2016". INSEE.
l'Intérieur, Ministère de. "Présidentielles".
Nationale, Assemblée. "Assemblée nationale ~ Les députés, le vote de la loi, le Parlement français".

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