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The city of Paris (also called the Commune or Department of Paris) had a population of 2,165,423 people within its administrative city limits as of 1 January 2019. [1] It is surrounded by the Paris unité urbaine, or urban area, the most populous urban area in the European Union.
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Paris (French pronunciation: ⓘ) is the capital and largest city of France.With an estimated population of 2,102,650 residents in January 2023 [2] in an area of more than 105 km 2 (41 sq mi), [5] 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. [6]
The following is a list of adjectival forms of cities in English and their demonymic equivalents, which denote the people or the inhabitants of these cities. Demonyms ending in -ese are the same in the singular and plural forms. The ending -man has feminine equivalent -woman (e.g. an Irishman and a Scotswoman).
Bon chic bon genre (BCBG) is a term for fashionable people of good family ("bon genre"), especially in Paris. Graduates of the École nationale d'administration , or énarques predominate in the upper levels of government and many industries, along with graduates of the other Grandes écoles , specialized state-run institutes of tertiary education.
French people in Paris, August 1944. The conventional conception of French history starts with Ancient Gaul, and French national identity often views the Gauls as national precursors, either as biological ancestors (hence the refrain nos ancêtres les Gaulois), as emotional/spiritual ancestors, or both. [77]
Paris (surname), a list of people and fictional characters; Paris (given name), a list of people and fictional characters; Count of Paris, a title for the local magnate of the district around Paris in Carolingian times; revived in the 19th and 20th centuries by Orléanists
Alternatively, Pierre-Yves Lambert proposed to translate Parisii as the 'spear people', by connecting the first element to the Old Irish carr 'spear', derived from an earlier *kwar-sā. [5] The city of Paris, attested as Lutetiam Oppidum Parisiorum by Caesar (Parision in the 5th c. AD, Paris in 1265), is named after the Gallic tribe. [8] [5]