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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.
Like many current regions of France, the region of Centre-Val de Loire was created from parts of historical provinces: Touraine, Orléanais and Berry. First, the name Centre was chosen by the government purely on the basis of geography, in reference to its location in northwest-central France (the central part of the original French language area).
Paris Centre got 56.7% of the votes, Cœur de Paris (Heart of Paris) 31.8%, Paris 1234 got 9% and Premiers arrondissements de Paris (First arrondissements of Paris) got 2.5%. When asked where the authorities should be headquartered, 50.7% chose the 3rd arrondissement's municipal hall over the 4th, with the other two being too small to be proposed.
The area had a population of 13,064,617 as of 2018. [14] Nearly 20% of France's population resides in the region. The table below shows the population growth of the Paris metropolitan area (aire urbaine), i.e. the urban area (pôle urbain) and the commuter belt (couronne périurbaine) surrounding it.
Up until 2016, the first level NUTS regions of France consisted of Ile de France, Bassin Parisien, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Est, Ouest, Sud-Ouest, Centre-Est, Méditerranée and the Départements d'outre-mer. [1] The Départements d'outre-mer consisted of all the overseas departments of France, while the remaining eight statistical regions were made up of the 22 regions of France.
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 ...
Centreville, Centerville, Centre-ville or Centre-Ville and variants may refer to: Places. Bahamas. Centreville (Bahamas Parliament constituency) Canada ...
The commune (French pronunciation: ⓘ) is a level of administrative division in the French Republic.French communes are analogous to civil townships and incorporated municipalities in the United States and Canada, Gemeinden in Germany, comuni in Italy, or municipios in Spain.