Paris

Paris

(in French: Paris) is the capital of France and the largest city in terms of population. Located on the banks of the Seine River in the northern part of the country in the heart of the Ile-de-France region. An estimated population of 2243833 in 2010 only within the administrative scope, while more than the population of the city with its suburbs, about 12 million people.

Paris has been an extremely important area for more than two thousand years [4], and with the beginning of the twelfth century, Paris became a European science, arts and the largest city in the Western world center until the early eighteenth century. Paris was the scene of many important throughout history, such as the French Revolution political events. At present, they are considered one of the largest of Iiother economic and cultural centers is important in politics, science, entertainment, media, fashion and the arts, making it one of the world's major cities. In 2011, the GDP of the city of 607 billion euros (845 billion dollars), one of the largest local outputs of the cities in the world. Paris is one of the world's leading tourist destinations and is the headquarters for most of the French companies.

Paris has a variety of museums, theaters and monuments that were built over the centuries, such as the Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe and the Louvre Museum and the Palace of Versailles. Paris is one of the largest art centers in the world, its proximity to a large number of museums, which includes paintings by leading international artists. The kitchen of the city's international reputation, where attracts chefs in the world. Includes Paris and its suburbs, the most prestigious French schools and universities, also contains the headquarters of the largest French newspapers, such as Le Monde, though Figaro and Liberation.

Paris is the headquarters of the club Paris Saint-Germain football, where there is also France stadium built to host the FIFA World Cup 1998. The city also hosts the tournament at Roland Garros Football Almdharb.taatmaz Paris diversity of transportation and quality. The city contains the two major international airports are Charles de Gaulle International Airport and Paris Orly. Paris Metro, who served in 1900- opened about 9 million passengers daily.

Population

Number of residents of Paris (1800-2008).

The number 2234105 residents of Paris, according to the statistics of 2009. [76] rose to 2243833 in 2010. [2] but it's still far away somewhat from the historical peak reached by the city's population in 1921, while the number reached more than 2.9 million people. [ 77] the most important factors that led to the decline in the population of the city was a significant drop in the Parisian family size, large immigration population that moved to the outskirts of the city in the sixties and seventies of the last century. For many reasons this migration most important decline in industrial activity and rising rental rates in the city. The decline in the number of residents of Paris and one of the largest of its kind between the cities of the world; Therefore, the city administration has sought hard to maintain the population of the French capital, and succeeded in doing so to some extent. Since July 2004, statistics showed a rise in the number of residents of the city for the first time since 1954, the rate of 2.1447 million people.

Paris is one of the more urban population density in the world. [78] The population density of the city without counting Gapti Bologna and Vansen 24 448 inhabitants / square km, according to the statistics of 1999 can not be compared to that figure, but with some major Asian cities, as well as Manhattan in New York . As with the calculation Algaptin, the population density will reach 20 169 inhabitants / square km. [76] Paris, making it the fifth-largest French municipalities intensity after Le Barre Saint Gervais, and Vincennes, and Levallois-Perry, San Mandi, note that all of these municipalities are located within the city limits .

In Paris population census in 1999, 19.4% of the population were born outside France. According to the same census, 4.2% of the population of metropolitan Paris area were immigrants novice (who emigrated between 1990-1999), mostly from Asia and Africa. Around 37% of immigrants living in France in the Paris region. [79] The first international wave of immigration began in Paris in the twenties of the nineteenth century with the arrival of German peasants fleeing from the agricultural crisis in their country. Followed by successive waves of immigration to this day represented by the Italians, the Jews of Central Europe who migrated during the nineteenth century. And then the Russians after the 1917 revolution, as well as Armenians fleeing massacres of Armenians carried out by the Ottoman Empire. [80] In the period of the First World War, thereby increasing the migration of the population of the colonies, and then the Poles in the interwar period. Followed by Spaniards and Italians and Portuguese and the inhabitants of North Africa from the fifties to the seventies of the last century. This was followed by a wave of migration of the Jews of North Africa after the independence of their country. Now the majority of immigrants from Asian and African. [81]

City of Paris is relatively young; Where, according to a survey in 2008, the proportion of the population aged less than 35 years 46%. [82], and thus higher than the national average of 41.8%. [83].

Economy

Paris is the President's economic hub in France. In 2011, the GDP was 670 billion euros (845 billion dollars), [92] and this will not be the richest regions of France, but also be the fifth largest city in the world in terms of GDP after Tokyo, New York and Los Angeles, and London; Paris, making it an engine of the global economy. If Paris was a state, was in seventeenth place in the list of the most powerful economies in the world, where the city is the largest of the Turkish economy and the Dutch economy, and asymptotic to the Indonesian economy. While the population of the Paris metropolitan area, representing 18.8% of the French population in 2011, [93], the GDP of the city, such as 31% of France output. [92] highly concentrated wealth in the outskirts of the western city, especially Neuilly-sur-Seine It is one of the richest areas of the country. [94]