Paris, France

• Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region. The city of Paris, within its administrative limits largely unchanged since 1860, has an estimated population of 2,193,031, but the Paris metropolitan area has a population of 11,836,970, and is one of the most populated metropolitan areas in Europe.

  In 2009 and 2010, Paris has been ranked among the three most important and influential cities in the world, among the first three “European cities of the future” according to a research published by Financial Times and among the top ten cities in the world in which to live according to the British review Monocle.

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