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This list, which has been compiled using the list of the largest cities and towns of France published by "About France" to ensure completeness, [2] includes over 100 surviving buildings. The oldest town hall is Hôtel de Ville, La Rochelle completed in 1298, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and the tallest town hall is Hôtel de Ville, Lille with a clock tower ...
Centre-Val de Loire (/ ˌ v æ l d ə ˈ l w ɑː r, ˌ v ɑː l-/; French pronunciation: [sɑ̃tʁə val də lwaʁ], [Notes 1] lit. ' Centre-Loire Valley ' ) or Centre Region (French: région Centre , [ʁeʒjɔ̃ sɑ̃tʁ] ), as it was known until 2015, is one of the eighteen administrative regions of France .
A city centre is the commercial, cultural and often the historical, political, and geographic heart of a city. The term "city centre" is primarily used in British English, and closely equivalent terms that exist in other languages, such as "centre-ville" in French, Stadtzentrum in German, or shìzhōngxīn (市中心) in Chinese.
Paris (French pronunciation: ⓘ) is the capital and largest city of France.With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 [3] in an area of more than 105 km 2 (41 sq mi), [4] Paris is the fourth-most populous city in the European Union, the ninth-most populous city in Europe and the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2022. [5]
The centre of Paris in 1550, by Olivier Truschet and Germain Hoyau The Fontaine des Innocents (1549), by Pierre Lescot and Jean Goujon, next to the city market, celebrated the official entrance of King Henry II into Paris. The Pont Notre-Dame (1512), the first Renaissance bridge in Paris, held a street and sixty-eight houses.
Ville is a French word meaning "city" or "town", but its meaning in the Middle Ages was "farm" (from Gallo-Romance VILLA < Latin villa rustica) and then "village". The derivative suffix-ville is commonly used in names of cities, towns and villages, particularly throughout France, Canada and the United States.
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Châteauroux ( / ˌ ʃ æ t oʊ ˈ r uː / SHAT -oh- ROO ; French pronunciation: [ʃɑtoʁu] ⓘ ; Occitan : Chasteurós ) is the capital city of the French department of Indre , [ 3 ] central France and the second-largest ...
In France, multiple words exist to define various kinds of urban area. One of the first words used was the word agglomération , which was first used to deal with a group of people. The word was used, for instance, in a law from 5 April 1884 ( loi du 5 avril 1884 ), in which Article 98 gives the mayor police power ( pouvoirs de police ...