Paris

Capital and largest city of France
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inception
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alias
City of Light
Paris, France
official name
Paris (french)
native label
Paris (french)
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nickname
Ville-Lumière (french)
The City of Light (english)
La Ciudad de la Luz (spanish)
demonym
Parisien (french)
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Parisienne (french)
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Parisian (english)
parisenc (catalan)
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parisenca (catalan)
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Paräisser (luxembourgish)
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Paräisserin (luxembourgish)
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парижанин (russian)
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парижанка (russian)
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парижане (russian)
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Pariserin (german)
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Pariser (german)
Pariserinnen (german)
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párizsi (hungarian)
Parizano (esperanto)
motto text
Fluctuat nec mergitur (latin)
literal translation
Il est battu par les flots, mais ne sombre pas (french)
Tossed by the waves but never sunk (english)
Його хитає, але він не тоне (ukrainian)
Er, sie, es schwankt hin und her, wird aber nicht versenkt. (german)
coordinate location
latitude48.857
longitude2.351
precision0
head of government
population
1990199520002005201020152.15M2.20M
2,187,526
point in time
January 1, 2017
determination method
preferred
2,243,739
point in time
2014
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2,211,297
point in time
2008
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2,125,246
point in time
1999
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2,152,423
point in time
1990
determination method
elevation above sea level
28 ± 1 metre
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area
105.4 square kilometre
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postal code
75116
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official website
language of work or name
retrieved
March 24, 2018
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deprecated
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speed limit
12 kilometre per hour
start time
1893
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media
local dialing code
1
Dewey Decimal Classification
2--44361
IATA airport code
PAR
licence plate code
75
annual number of weddings
9,021
point in time
2015
Commons category
Paris
Commons gallery
Commons maps category
Maps of Paris
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coordinates of easternmost point
latitude48.836
longitude2.47
precision0
coordinates of northernmost point
latitude48.902
longitude2.384
precision0
coordinates of southernmost point
latitude48.816
longitude2.344
precision0
coordinates of westernmost point
latitude48.854
longitude2.224
precision0
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Wikipedia creation date
11/6/2001
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Wikipedia opening text
Paris (French pronunciation: ​[paʁi] (listen)) is the capital and most populous city of France, with a population of 2,148,271 residents (official estimate, 1 January 2020) in an area of 105 square kilometres (41 square miles). Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of Europe's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, science and the arts. The City of Paris is the centre and seat of government of the Île-de-France, or Paris Region, which has an estimated official 2020 population of 12,278,210, or about 18 percent of the population of France. The Paris Region had a GDP of €709 billion ($808 billion) in 2017. According to the Economist Intelligence Unit Worldwide Cost of Living Survey in 2018, Paris was the second most expensive city in the world, after Singapore, and ahead of Zürich, Hong Kong, Oslo and Geneva. Another source ranked Paris as most expensive, on a par with Singapore and Hong Kong, in 2018. The city is a major railway, highway and air-transport hub served by two international airports: Paris-Charles de Gaulle (the second busiest airport in Europe) and Paris-Orly. Opened in 1900, the city's subway system, the Paris Métro, serves 5.23 million passengers daily; it is the second busiest metro system in Europe after the Moscow Metro. Gare du Nord is the 24th busiest railway station in the world, but the first located outside Japan, with 262 million passengers in 2015. Paris is especially known for its museums and architectural landmarks: the Louvre was among most visited art museums in the world in 2019, with 9.6 million visitors. The Musée d'Orsay, Musée Marmottan Monet, and Musée de l'Orangerie are noted for their collections of French Impressionist art, the Pompidou Centre Musée National d'Art Moderne has the largest collection of modern and contemporary art in Europe, and the Musée Rodin and Musée Picasso exhibit the works of the two noted Parisians. The historical district along the Seine in the city centre is classified as a UNESCO Heritage Site, and popular landmarks in the city centre included the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris, now closed for renovation after the 15 April 2019 fire. Other popular tourist sites include the Gothic royal chapel of Sainte-Chapelle, both on the Île de la Cité; the Eiffel Tower, constructed for the Paris Universal Exposition of 1889; the Grand Palais and Petit Palais, built for the Paris Universal Exposition of 1900; the Arc de Triomphe on the Champs-Élysées, and the Basilica of Sacré-Coeur on the hill of Montmartre. Paris received 24.5 million visitors in 2018, measured by hotel stays, with the largest numbers of foreign visitors coming from the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and China. It was ranked as the second most visited travel destination in the world in 2018, after Bangkok. The football club Paris Saint-Germain and the rugby union club Stade Français are based in Paris. The 80,000-seat Stade de France, built for the 1998 FIFA World Cup, is located just north of Paris in the neighbouring commune of Saint-Denis. Paris hosts the annual French Open Grand Slam tennis tournament on the red clay of Roland Garros. The city hosted the Olympic Games in 1900, 1924 and will host the 2024 Summer Olympics. The 1938 and 1998 FIFA World Cups, the 2007 Rugby World Cup, as well as the 1960, 1984 and 2016 UEFA European Championships were also held in the city; every July, the Tour de France bicycle race finishes there.
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end time
January 1, 2019
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number of subscribers
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