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Also known as Saint Denis, Réunion, Saint-Denis-de-la-Réunion, Saint-Denis de La Réunion

French commune in Réunion

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Saint-Denis is a city located on the island of Réunion, which is a French territory in the Indian Ocean. It is the capital and largest city of Réunion, serving as the island's main administrative and economic center.

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Place details

Locality
Saint-Denis
Region
La Réunion
Country
France
Population
154,765
Timezone
Indian/Reunion

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5.5 µg/m³
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Wikidata facts

Instance of
big city
Named after
Denis
Official name
Saint-Denis
Demonym
Dionysien
Country
France
Located in
Réunion
Population
156149
Area
142.79
Elevation
23
Time zone
UTC+04:00
Body of water
Rivière des Pluies
Head of government
Ericka Bareigts
Shares border with
Salazie
Official website
www.saintdenis.re
Image
SaintDenisReunion002.jpg
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twinned administrative body
Tangier
Commons category
Saint-Denis (Réunion)
Commons gallery
Saint-Denis (Réunion)
category for people born here
Category:Births in Saint-Denis, Réunion
postal code
97417
topic's main category
Category:Saint-Denis, Réunion
category of associated people
Category:People from Saint-Denis, Réunion
inception
1669-00-00
different from
Aigremont
male population
68423
female population
79508
native label
Saint-Denis
phone number
+33-2-62-40-04-04
fax number
+33-2-62-40-07-88
number of viewers/listeners
1168620
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Encyclopedic overview

Bilingual sign in French and Reunionese Creole Saint-Denis (/ˌsæ̃dəˈniː/, French: [sɛ̃ d(ə)ni] ; Reunionese Creole: Sin-Dni), unofficially Saint-Denis de La Réunion (pronounced [sɛ̃ d(ə)ni də la ʁeynjɔ̃]) for disambiguation, is the prefecture (administrative capital) of the French overseas department and region of Réunion, in the Indian Ocean. It is located at the island's northernmost point, close to the mouth of the Rivière Saint-Denis.

Saint-Denis is the most populous commune in the French overseas departments and the twentieth most populous in all of France. At the 2023 census, there were 326,743 inhabitants in the metropolitan area of Saint-Denis (as defined by INSEE), 155,634 of whom lived in the city (commune) of Saint-Denis proper and the remainder in the neighbouring communes of La Possession, Sainte-Marie, Sainte-Suzanne, Saint-André, and Bras-Panon.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Saint-Denis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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