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Geotemporal data: Map location: Paris: Scale: Scale approximately 1:22,000: Georeferencing: If inappropriate please set warp_status = skip to hide. Bibliographic data
From the 1860 area of 78 km 2 (30 sq mi), the city limits were expanded marginally to 86.9 km 2 (33.6 sq mi) in the 1920s. In 1929, the Bois de Boulogne and Bois de Vincennes forest parks were officially annexed to the city, bringing its area to about 105 km 2 (41 sq mi). [4] The metropolitan area of the city is 2,300 km 2 (890 sq mi). [2]
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 abbreviation is not always a short form of the word used in the clue. For example: "Knight" for N (the symbol used in chess notation) Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE.
Metropolitan France covers a land area of 543,940 km 2 (210,020 sq mi), [b] while overseas France covers a land area of 119,396 km 2 (46,099 sq mi), [3] for a total of 663,336 km 2 (256,115 sq mi) in the French Republic (excluding Adélie Land in Antarctica where sovereignty is suspended since the signing of the Antarctic Treaty in 1959). Thus ...
General overview map illustrating how the sheets of the complete map fit together Detail from sheets 11 and 15, depicting the Louvre Palace. In 1734, Michel-Étienne Turgot, the chief of the municipality of Paris as provost of the city's merchants, decided to promote the reputation of Paris for Parisian, provincial and foreign elites by commissioning a new map of the city.
English: Map of Europe with the flag of each country embedded. Included are the UN members/observers that are either geographically partially or entirely located in Europe (which all but Armenia and, arguably, Cyprus are) or a member of the Council of Europe (which all but Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and the Vatican are).
Cryptic crossword clues consist typically of a definition and some type of word play. Cryptic crossword clues need to be viewed two ways. One is a surface reading and one a hidden meaning. [27] The surface reading is the basic reading of the clue to look for key words and how those words are constructed in the clue. The second way is the hidden ...