Paris is a French, capital city of France and the chief town of the area of Island-of-France. This city is built on a loop of the Seine, in the center of the Paris basin, between the confluences of the Marne and the Seine upstream, and Oise and the Seine downstream. Its inhabitants are called the Parisian ones. Known in the whole world for its monuments and its artistic and cultural life, Paris is also an important city in the world history, a political and economic center major, as well as a point of passage for international transport. Paris is the world capital of the mode and the luxury. In 2005, the population of the town of Paris was of 2.153.600 inhabitants according to the estimate of INSEE within its administrative limits. Nevertheless, the city largely increased beyond its borders during the XXe century. Its urban surface, which includes the agglomeration and the crown périurbaine, included/understood 11,1 million inhabitants in 1999..........In the middle of the Paris basin, vast sedimentary plain, Paris are established on the Seine, where two islands are located which constitute the historical heart of the city: the island of the City, where are today the Caretaker's lodge (law courts), the prefecture of Paris, the Hospital (public assistance) and the Notre-Dame cathedral of Paris; the Saint-Louis island, in the east of the first. From there, the city extends on two banks from the river: Paris will intra muros, delimited in 1860 by the fortifications, is separated today from the suburbs by the ring road, a circular urban expressway a 35 km length. The road accesses to the city are done by the doors of Paris or indirectly by the motorways and trunk roads which rejoin the ring road. Outside this limit, Paris also extends on extensions accomodating the heliport (15th district) and especially two great wooded areas, arranged by Haussmann on common neighbors before being attached in Paris (in their totality since 1929): in the west: the wood of Boulogne (846 hectares, 16th), bordered in the south by Boulogne-Billancourt, north by the Neuilly-on-Seine and the west by the Seine, which separates it from Puteaux, Suresnes and Saint-Cloud. in the east: the wood of Vincennes (995 hectares, 12th), bordered in the south by Charenton-the-Bridge and Saint-Maurice, in the east by Joinville-the-Bridge and the Nogent-on-Marne, in north by Fontenay-under-Wood, Vincennes and Saint-Mandé.Paris, cultural capital The Parisian monuments on a stamp of 1936Paris is an arts centre of foreground. Tourist destination visits each Anne by some 26 million tourists trangers, Paris proposes in particular more than 150 Muses, such Louvre, and of the exceptional sites, like Field-lyses or the Eiffel tower. World capital of the living rooms and confrences (5% of the world activit of the congrs on prs of 600.000 mtres carrs), of the mode and the luxury, the gastronomy and the love, Paris galement proposes an important choice in matire of spectacles, thtres or will opras in particular, and prsente a public particulirement cinphile a choice without film gal coming from the whole world. The festive caractre of the city has seemed new the honor for the oprations rcentes of Paris-Beach or Sleepless night. Muses and monuments of Paris List Muses Parisian List thtres and will opras of Paris List rooms of spectacle and cabarets Parisian Louvre the nuitLes principal districts for the night exits is: The avenue of Field-lyses, the place of the Harmony until the triumphal arch, The Bastille, Pigalle, The street Mouffetard, The street Oberkampf, Saint-Paul, The Hillock with Ruails, The place of Rpublique, The Saint Martin's day channel The Latin Quarter, Chtelet - Markets Montparnasse The street of Lappe
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