Mérens-les-Vals 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 Ariège

Ariège

Ariège is a department in southwestern France named after the Ariège River.- History :Ariège is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790. It was created from the counties of Foix and Couserans....

 department in southwestern France

France

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. Its demonym

Demonym

A demonym , also referred to as a gentilic, is a name for a resident of a locality. A demonym is usually – though not always – derived from the name of the locality; thus, the demonym for the people of England is English, and the demonym for the people of Italy is Italian, yet, in english, the one...

 is Mérengois.

Population

Geography

Mérens-les-Vals, as its name implies, has several valleys. The village is at the confluence of three valleys: Ariège, Nabre and Morgoulliou.
The village has a train station (Gare de Mérens-les-Vals

Gare de Mérens-les-Vals

Mérens-les-Vals is a railway station in Mérens-les-Vals, Midi-Pyrénées, France. The station is located on the Portet-Saint-Simon–Puigcerdà railway...

) on the Portet-Saint-Simon–Puigcerdà railway

Portet-Saint-Simon–Puigcerdà railway

The Portet-Saint-Simon - Puigcerdà railway is a secondary railway line in southwestern France. It connects Portet-sur-Garonne, 11 km south of Toulouse on the Toulouse–Bayonne railway, to Latour-de-Carol and Puigcerdà, towns located on each side of the French/Spanish border in Cerdanya...

. The night train from Gare d'Austerlitz

Gare d'Austerlitz

Paris Austerlitz is one of the six large terminus railway stations in Paris. It is situated on the left bank of the Seine in the southeastern part of the city, in the XIIIe arrondissement...

, Paris to Latour-de-Carol

Latour-de-Carol

Latour-de-Carol is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France.-Transport:The village's main claim to fame is as the site of the international railway station, Gare de Latour-de-Carol-Enveitg...

stops here. The journey taking about nine hours. There are six local trains a day to Toulouse, this journey takes 2 hrs 15mins.