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An aire d'attraction d'une ville [note 1] (or AAV, literally meaning "catchment area of a city") is a statistical area used by France's national statistics office INSEE since 2020, officially translated as functional area in English by INSEE, [2] which consists of a densely populated urban agglomeration and the surrounding exurbs, towns and intervening rural areas that are socioeconomically ...
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 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.
Évian-les-Bains, administrative centre of the canton of Évian-les-Bains in Haute-Savoie, France. An administrative centre is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune, is located.
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.
Français; 한국어; Ido; Italiano ... Centreville, Centerville, Centre-ville or Centre-Ville and variants may refer to: Places. Bahamas. Centreville (Bahamas ...
Les villes et communes de France Archived 10 July 2019 at the Wayback Machine lescommunes.com: contacts, offices du tourisme et maire, Hall and Tourist Office, statistiques, photographies. (in French) Maryvonne Bonnard, Les collectivités territoriales en France, 2005, La Documentation française, ISBN 2-11-005874-9 (in French) Cour des comptes ...
The city has two distinct areas: the modern town on the mainland and the medieval Ville Close, a walled town on a long island in the centre of the harbour. Historically, the old town was a centre of shipbuilding; its ramparts date from the 14th century. [3] The Ville Close is now devoted to tourism with many restaurants and shops aimed at tourists.