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The Metropolis of Greater Paris (French: Métropole du Grand Paris ; French pronunciation: [metʁopɔl dy ɡʁɑ̃ paʁi]), [note 1] also known as Greater Paris, is a métropole covering the City of Paris and its nearest surrounding suburbs that was created from Sarkozy's renovation of the city. The métropole came into existence on 1 January ...
Paris metropolitan area. Map showing the extent of the Paris metropolitan area as of 2020, when it included 1,929 communes and covered 18,941 km 2. The Paris metropolitan area (French: aire d'attraction de Paris) is a statistical area that describes the reach of commuter movement to and from Paris, France and its surrounding suburbs.
Grand Paris, a métropole covering the City of Paris and its nearest surrounding suburbs created in 2016. Paris and the Petite Couronne (its inner ring of surrounding departments) Île-de-France (region), includes an outer ring (Grande Couronne) of surrounding departments. Paris aire urbaine, metropolitan area, largely overlaps with the Grande ...
The Grand Paris Express will add four lines, 68 stations and 200 kilometers of track to the French capital’s 120-year-old Metro system. ... adding outer rings to an underground map of Paris that ...
The Île-de-France (/ ˌiːldəˈfrɒ̃s /; French: [il də fʁɑ̃s] ⓘ; lit.'Island of France') is the most populous of the eighteen regions of France, with an official estimated population of 12,271,794 residents on 1 January 2023. [ 1 ] Centred on the capital Paris, it is located in the north-central part of the country and often called ...
The Paris Region, or Île-de-France, covers 12,012 km 2 (4,638 sq mi), and has its own regional council and president. It has a population of 12,213,447 as of January 2018, or 18.3 percent of the population of France. [2] The metropolitan or functional area (aire d'attraction) of Paris covers 18,941 km 2 (7,313 sq mi) and has 13,064,617 ...
Seine-Saint-Denis (French pronunciation: [sɛn sɛ̃ d (ə)ni]) is a department of France located in the Grand Paris metropolis in the Île-de-France region. In French, it is often referred to colloquially as quatre-vingt treize or neuf trois ("ninety-three" or "nine three"), after its official administrative number, 93. Its prefecture is Bobigny.
Paris is located in the north-bending arc of the river Seine and includes two islands, the Île Saint-Louis and the larger Île de la Cité, which form the oldest part of the city. The river's mouth on the English Channel (La Manche) is about 233 mi (375 km) downstream from the city. The city is spread widely on both banks of the river.