The French department of Val-de-Marne is named after the Marne River and is located in the Île-de-France region. Val-de-Marne is, together with Seine-Saint-Denis and Hauts-de-Seine, one of three small departments in Île-de-France that form a ring around Paris known as the Petite Couronne (“the inner ring"). It’s prefecture city is Créteil and the food and flower market in Rungis is the large in France, supplying the the entire Ile de France region with fresh produce. Learn more about the Val de Marne on
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