Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy is a commune

Communes of France

The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. French communes are roughly equivalent to incorporated municipalities or villages in the United States or Gemeinden in Germany...

 in the Meurthe-et-Moselle

Meurthe-et-Moselle

Meurthe-et-Moselle is a department in the Lorraine region of France, named after the Meurthe and Moselle rivers.- History :Meurthe-et-Moselle was created in 1871 at the end of the Franco-Prussian War from the parts of the former departments of Moselle and Meurthe which remained French...

 department in north-eastern France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

. Its inhabitants are called Vandopériens.

Geography

With 32,048 inhabitants (1999), Vandœuvre is the second-largest commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department, after the capital Nancy, of which it is a suburb

Suburb

The word suburb mostly refers to a residential area, either existing as part of a city or as a separate residential community within commuting distance of a city . Some suburbs have a degree of administrative autonomy, and most have lower population density than inner city neighborhoods...

. These two cities belong to the same municipal area: Grand Nancy.

See also

• École Nationale Supérieure d'Agronomie et des Industries Alimentaires
  École nationale supérieure d'agronomie et des industries alimentaires
  The École Nationale Supérieure d'Agronomie et des Industries Alimentaires is a French grande école located in Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy near Nancy in the Meurthe-et-Moselle département that specialises in biological and agricultural engineering.-External links:...
  
  
• École Supérieure des Sciences et Technologies de l'Ingénieur de Nancy
  École Supérieure des Sciences et Technologies de l'Ingénieur de Nancy
  The École supérieure des sciences et technologies de l'ingénieur de Nancy is a French generalist Grande école located in Nancy. It was created in 1960 under the name of ISIN...
  
  
• INIST
  INIST
  The INIST is the CNRS centre of documentation. It has as mission to collect, treat and diffuse results of scientific and technical research. The INIST produces three bibliographic multilingual and multidisciplinary databases: PASCAL, FRANCIS, and DOGE. It is based at Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, in a...
  
   (CNRS database)
• Communes of the Meurthe-et-Moselle department

External links

• Official website