Île-de-France

Île-de-France is the compact region immediately surrounding . As such, the region includes all of the metropolis, from the great capital itself through the gritty inner banlieue right out to now far-flung suburbs and exurbs, together with several large surrounding towns that form part of the greater conurbation.
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, the cosmopolitan capital of , has the reputation of being the most beautiful and romantic of all cities, brimming with historic associations and remaining vastly influential in the realms of culture, art, fashion, food and design.

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is a city on the western edge of the capital city , now part of the sprawling metropolis within the Île-de-France region. is best known for being the site of the vast royal palace and gardens built by King Louis XIV on what had been the grounds of a royal hunting lodge.

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is a department in the western part of the Île-de-France region in Northern . In 2023, it had a population of 1,485,086. Its prefecture is , home to the , the principal residence of the King of France from 1682 until 1789, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979.

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is a department in the Île-de-France region of . It covers 's western inner suburbs. It is bordered by Paris, and to the east, to the north, to the west and to the south.

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is a mainly rural department in the Île-de-France region in northern . Named after the rivers and , it roughly encompasses the region's eastern half, and, at 5,915 km2, is by a wide margin the largest department in Île-de-France.

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is a department of France located in the Île-de-France region. Named after the river , it is situated in the metropolis to the southeast of ’ city centre.

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is a department of France located in the metropolis in the Île-de-France region. In French, it is often referred to colloquially as quatre-vingt-treize or neuf trois, after its official administrative number, 93.

Île-de-France

  • Type: State with 11,900,000 residents
  • Description: administrative region of France
  • Also known as: “Eilân fan Frankryk”, “FR-IDF”, “idf”, “IdF”, “IDF”, “Île de France”, “Île-de-France Region”, “Island of France”, “Isle o Fraunce”, “Isula di Francia”, “Paris Region”, “Parisian Region”, “Região de Île-de-France”, “Região de Ilha de França”, “Região de Paris”, “Região Parisiense”, “Región de París”, “Region Ile-de-France”, “Region parisenca”, “Regione di Parighji”, “Regione di Parigi”, “Νήσος της Γαλλίας”, “Іль дэ франс”, “Парижский регион”, and “جزيرة فرنسا”
  • Neighbors: , , , , and
  • Categories: region of France and locality
  • Location: ,
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Latitude of center
48.6443° or 48° 38′ 40″ north
Longitude of center
2.7538° or 2° 45′ 14″ east
Population
11,900,000
Elevation
53 metres (174 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1251610258
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
3012874
Wiki­data ID
Q13917
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Île-de-France” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Île-de-France”
  • Albanian: “Île-de-France”
  • Albanian: “Ishull-i-Francës”
  • Amharic: “ኢል-ደ-ፍራንስ”
  • Arabic: “إيل دو فرانس”
  • Aragonese: “Isla de Francia”
  • Armenian: “Իլ դը Ֆրանս”
  • Armenian: “Իլ-դը-Ֆրանս”
  • Arpitan: “Ila-de-France”
  • Asturian: “Islla de Francia”
  • Aymara: “Île-de-France suyu”
  • Azerbaijani: “İl de Frans”
  • Azerbaijani: “İl-de-Frans”
  • Basque: “Île-de-France”
  • Belarusian: “Іль-дэ-Франс”
  • Belarusian: “рэгіён Іль-дэ-Франс”
  • Bengali: “ইল্‌-দ্য-ফ্রঁস”
  • Bosnian: “Île-de-France”
  • Breton: “Enez-Frañs”
  • Bulgarian: “Ил дьо Франс”
  • Burmese: “အီလ်-ဒ-ဖရံ့စ်တိုင်း”
  • Catalan: “Illa de França”
  • Cebuano: “Île-de-France”
  • Chechen: “Иль-де-ФгӀанс”
  • Chinese: “法兰西岛”
  • Chinese: “法兰西岛大区”
  • Chinese: “法蘭西島”
  • Chinese: “法蘭西島大區”
  • Chuvash: “Иль-де-Франс”
  • Corsican: “Île-de-France”
  • Crimean Tatar: “İl-de-Frans”
  • Croatian: “Île-de-France”
  • Czech: “Île-de-France”
  • Danish: “Île-de-France”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Île-de-France”
  • Dutch: “Île-de-France”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ايل دو فرانس”
  • Emilian: “Îsla ed Franza”
  • Esperanto: “Francilio (Parizio)”
  • Esperanto: “Francilio”
  • Esperanto: “Pariza Regiono”
  • Estonian: “Île-de-France”
  • Extremaduran: “Île-de-France”
  • Finnish: “Île-de-France”
  • French: “Île-de-France”
  • French: “Région Île-de-France”
  • French: “Région parisienne”
  • Galician: “Illa de Francia”
  • Georgian: “ილ-დე-ფრანსი”
  • German: “Ile de France”
  • German: “Île-de-France”
  • Greek: “Ιλ-ντε-Φρανς”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Île-de-France”
  • Hausa: “Ile-de-France”
  • Hebrew: “איל-דה-פראנס”
  • Hindi: “इल-दा-फ़्रान्स”
  • Hindi: “ईल-द-फ़्राँस”
  • Hungarian: “Île-de-France”
  • Icelandic: “Île-de-France”
  • Ido: “Francilia”
  • Ido: “Insulo di Francia”
  • Indonesian: “Île-de-France”
  • Interlingua: “Île-de-France”
  • Interlingue: “Île-de-France”
  • Irish: “Île-de-France”
  • Italian: “Île-de-France”
  • Italian: “Isola di Francia”
  • Japanese: “イル・ド・フランス”
  • Japanese: “イル＝ド＝フランス”
  • Japanese: “イル＝ド＝フランス地域圏”
  • Japanese: “イル＝ド＝フランス地方”
  • Javanese: “Île-de-France”
  • Jèrriais: “Île-dé-Fraunce”
  • Kabyle: “Ile-de-France”
  • Kabyle: “Île-de-France”
  • Kazakh: “Иль-де-Франс”
  • Khmer: “អ៊ីលដឺហ្រ្វែន”
  • Kirghiz: “Иль-де-Франс”
  • Korean: “일드프랑스”
  • Kurdish: “Île-de-France”
  • Ladin: “Île-de-France”
  • Ladino: “Île-de-France”
  • Latin: “Insula Franciae”
  • Latvian: “Ildefransa”
  • Limburgan: “Île-de-France”
  • Lithuanian: “Il de Fransas”
  • Lombard: “Île-de-France”
  • Low German: “Île-de-France”
  • Luxembourgish: “Île-de-France”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Île-de-France”
  • Macedonian: “Ил-де Франс”
  • Malagasy: “Île-de-France”
  • Malay: “Île-de-France”
  • Maltese: “Ile-de-France”
  • Manx: “Île-de-France”
  • Marathi: “इल-दा-फ्रान्स”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Île-de-France”
  • Mingrelian: “ილ-დე ფრანსი”
  • Moksha: “Иль-дэ-Франс”
  • Mongolian: “Иль-де-Франс”
  • Northern Frisian: “Île-de-France”
  • Northern Luri: “ایل دو فرانس”
  • Northern Sami: “Île-de-France”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Île-de-France”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Île-de-France”
  • Norwegian: “Île-de-France”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Illa de França”
  • Oromo: “Ile-de-France”
  • Ossetian: “Иль-де-Франс”
  • Pampanga: “Île-de-France”
  • Panjabi: “ਈਲ-ਡ-ਫ਼ਰਾਂਸ”
  • Panjabi: “ਫ਼ਰਾਂਸ ਦਾ ਟਾਪੂ”
  • Persian: “ایل-دو-فرانس”
  • Picard: “Ile-ed-Franche”
  • Piemontese: “Ìsola ëd Fransa”
  • Polish: “Île-de-France”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha de França”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha-de-França”
  • Pushto: “ایل د فرانس”
  • Quechua: “Île-de-France”
  • Romanian: “Île-de-France”
  • Russian: “Иль-де-Франс”
  • Sardinian: “Ìsula de Frantza”
  • Scots: “Île-de-France”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Île-de-France”
  • Serbian: “Il de Frans”
  • Serbian: “Ил де Франс”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Île-de-France”
  • Sicilian: “Île-de-France”
  • Sindhi: “ال دي فرانس”
  • Slovak: “Île-de-France”
  • Slovenian: “Île-de-France”
  • Somali: “Ile-de-France”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ایل-دو-فرانس”
  • Spanish: “Isla de Francia”
  • Swahili: “Île-de-France”
  • Swedish: “Ile de France”
  • Swedish: “Île-de-France”
  • Swiss German: “Île-de-France”
  • Tagalog: “Île-de-France”
  • Tajik: “Ил-де-Франс”
  • Tamil: “இல் ட பிரான்சு”
  • Tatar: “Ил-де-Франс”
  • Tatar: “Иль-де-Франс”
  • Thai: “แคว้นอีล-เดอ-ฟร็องส์”
  • Thai: “อิล-เดอ-ฟรองซ์”
  • Turkish: “Île-de-France”
  • Ukrainian: “Іль-де-Франс”
  • Urdu: “ایل-دو-فرانس”
  • Uzbek: “Il-de-Frans”
  • Venetian: “Île-de-France”
  • Vietnamese: “Île-de-France”
  • Vlaams: “Île-de-France”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Île-de-France”
  • Welsh: “Île-de-France”
  • Western Armenian: “Իլ տը Ֆրանս”
  • Western Frisian: “Île-de-France”
  • Western Panjabi: “ال ڈ فغاس”
  • Wu Chinese: “法兰西岛大区”
  • Yakut: “Иль-де-Франс”
  • Yue Chinese: “法蘭西島”
  • Yue Chinese: “法蘭西島大區”
  • Zeeuws: “Île-de-France”

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