Bures-sur-Yvette | |
Commune Status: | Commune |
Image Coat Of Arms: | Blason Bures-sur-Yvette.svg |
Coordinates: | 48.6969°N 2.1639°W |
Demonym: | Buressois |
Insee: | 91122 |
Postal Code: | 91440 |
Arrondissement: | Palaiseau |
Canton: | Gif-sur-Yvette |
Intercommunality: | CA Paris-Saclay |
Mayor: | Jean-François Vigier[1] |
Term: | 2020 - 2026 |
Elevation Min M: | 56 |
Elevation Max M: | 163 |
Area Km2: | 4.17 |
Bures-sur-Yvette (in French pronounced as /byʁ syʁ ivɛt/, "Bures-on-Yvette") is a commune in the Essonne department in the Île-de-France region in Northern France. It is a southern Parisian outer suburb in the Vallée de Chevreuse, with a population of 9,254 as of 2021.
Bures-sur-Yvette is located in the Vallée de Chevreuse on the river Yvette, along which the RER B line is laid. The stations on the line serving the commune are Bures-sur-Yvette and La Hacquinière. Adjacent communes are Orsay, Gif-sur-Yvette, Gometz-le-Châtel and Les Ulis. The small town is also twinned with Crewkerne, England.
Inhabitants of Bures-sur-Yvette are known as Buressois (masculine) and Buressoises (feminine) in French.
Bures-sur-Yvette hosts the greater part of the Orsay campus of the University of Paris-Sud (Paris XI), as well as the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHÉS).