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Paris, 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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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include La Défense and 1st arrondissement.

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is a collection of modern high-rise office and residential buildings built according to an evolving central plan on the western outskirts of Paris, beyond the last Parisian loop of the river Seine.

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The centre of contemporary Paris and the site of such landmarks as the Louvre and of the Tuileries and Palais-Royal, the is full of attractions for travellers of all inclinations, including some of the finest parks, museums, shops, and bars in the city.

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The is perhaps the most expensive area to live in Paris. The Eiffel Tower, one of the most famous tourist sites in the world, is here, as well as many government buildings. Many dignitaries and VIPs populate this arrondissement.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as 2nd arrondissement and 9th arrondissement.

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The of Paris is one of the financial centres of Europe, being home to the Bourse and thus the CAC 40 index you hear about in world financial news. Other major activities in the neighbourhood are journalism and fashion.

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The of Paris is a diverse, "in between" section of the French capital. The Grands Boulevards area of shopping thoroughfares and flagship department stores is to be found in the southern part of the arrondissement.

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The of Paris is home to the Avenue des Champs Elysées, which ends up at the Arc de Triomphe. The executive branch of French government is also based here, as well as the embassies of certain nations.

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The 4th is a good chunk of what used to be medieval Paris, and you'll find a lot left from that time on both islands and in the narrow streets of the lower Marais.

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A quieter part of the ancient Marais neighbourhood which is centred in the , the 3rd is possibly one of the best places to live in Paris. There are several good open air markets and lots of great local designer clothing stores.

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As with Paris itself, the is hard to write about without using superlatives. There's a bit of everything here, from the busy sidewalks of Paris' main art Gallery scene to the expansive green spaces and under-tree cafés of the Jardin…

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The of Paris centres on the Canal Saint Martin and the restaurants and cafés which line its banks. Part sleepy faubourg — as suburbs were called in 18th century Paris — and part industrial centre, the has lately enjoyed the benefits of both the booming nightlife scene in the neighbouring 11th, as well as the Parisian cycling and roller-blading boom.

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The of Paris is one of the best known of the city's central districts, located on the Left Bank of the river Seine. Also commonly known as the "Latin Quarter" because the first great Parisian university, the Sorbonne, was founded here and Latin was the language the medieval period students used once to speak.

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Although largely residential, the is best known for its northeastern quartier Montparnasse, for the Paris Catacombs and the Parc Montsouris.

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The of Paris is one of the largest of the city's districts even without the 2,460 acre Bois de Vincennes, which more than doubles its size.

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The is home to two quite different but equally blossoming centres of Parisian nightlife. The streets just northwest of Place de la Bastille are full of little bars which attract a mix of young suburban Parisians, expats, and foreigners.

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The of Paris is primarily a residential and business district in the southeast of Paris, on the of the Seine. Although not usually recognised as a natural magnet for tourists, the 13th nonetheless does hold several attractions…

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The of Paris lies to the east of the centre and represents an old working-class area now in rapid transformation. The main drawing card here for tourists is the Père-Lachaise Cemetery, though, for travellers who are interested in music and culture, this relatively gritty area is probably going to be one of your main night-crawling areas.

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The of Paris is probably best known for the hill of Montmartre which was the centre of the Communard uprising of the late-nineteenth century, but is also perhaps better known as the centre of the flourishing artist community of the period from around 1907-1914.

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The of Paris lies off the beaten path, directly north of the Arc de Triomphe. If you want to see Paris at some of its finest, wealthiest, and most eclectic, this is the place to go.

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The of Paris is in the city's southwest on the Left Bank of the Seine. Quite up-market and quiet, it is the largest arrondissement by both area and population.

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This large district occupies most of the West of Paris, extending east-west between the bends of the Seine from the Jardins of Trocadero immediately facing the Eiffel Tower to the expansive Bois du Boulogne, and north-south from the Etoile to the southern border of Paris.

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The of Paris is in the north of the city, and is a peaceful, green and family-friendly refuge from the otherwise quite stuffy and/or shabby city.

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The in travellers' terms generally refers to the "Left Bank" of the River Seine in the capital city of Paris. The defies precise definition but generally refers to those arrondissements on the southern bank of the river as it flows…
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Orsay Museum and Eiffel Tower.

Museum
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The Musée d'Orsay is a in Paris, France, on the of the . It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts railway station built from 1898 to 1900.

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The is a lattice tower on the in Paris, France. It is named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower from 1887 to 1889.

Church
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, often referred to simply as Notre-Dame, is a medieval Catholic cathedral on the , in the , France.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Levallois-Perret and Clichy.

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is a commune in the department and region of north-central France. It lies on the right bank of the , some 6 km from the in the north-western suburbs of the French capital.

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is a commune in the northwestern suburbs of Paris, . It is located on the , 6.4 km from the . Located in are the headquarters of the L'Oréal Group, the world's largest company in cosmetics and beauty; Bic, one of the biggest pen producers in the world; Monoprix, a major French retail chain; as well as Sony France, a large electronics and media company.

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is a commune in the southern Parisian suburbs, located 4.4 km from the centre of Paris. It is one of the most densely populated municipalities in Europe. After a long period of decline, the population has increased again in recent years.

Paris

Latitude
48.861° or 48° 51′ 40″ north
Longitude
2.3358° or 2° 20′ 9″ east
Population
2,130,000
Elevation
42 metres (138 feet)
IATA airport code
PAR
United Nations Location Code
FR PAR
Open location code
8FW4V86P+C8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 17807753
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2988507
Wiki­data ID
Q90
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Paris” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Paris”
  • Adyghe: “Париж”
  • Afrikaans: “Paris”
  • Afrikaans: “Parys”
  • Albanian: “Paris”
  • Albanian: “Parisi”
  • Algerian Arabic: “باريز”
  • Algerian Arabic: “باريس”
  • Algerian Arabic: “پاري”
  • Amharic: “ፓሪ”
  • Amharic: “ፓሪስ”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Λευκετία Παρισίων”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Λευκετία”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Λευκοτοκία”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Λουκετία”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Λουκοτοκία”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Παρίσιοι”
  • Angika: “पेरिस”
  • Arabic: “باريس”
  • Aragonese: “París”
  • Armenian: “Փարիզ”
  • Arpitan: “Paris”
  • Assamese: “পেৰিছ”
  • Asturian: “París”
  • Atikamekw: “Paris”
  • Avaric: “Париж”
  • Awadhi: “पेरीस”
  • Aymara: “Paris”
  • Azerbaijani: “Paris”
  • Balinese: “Paris”
  • Bambara: “Paris”
  • Bashkir: “Париж”
  • Basque: “Paris”
  • Bavarian: “Paris”
  • Belarusian: “Парыж”
  • Bengali: “আলোর শহর”
  • Bengali: “পারি”
  • Bengali: “প্যারিস”
  • Betawi: “Parès”
  • Bhojpuri: “पेरिस”
  • Bhojpuri: “पैरिस”
  • Bislama: “Paris”
  • Bosnian: “Pariz”
  • Breton: “Pariz”
  • Bulgarian: “Париж”
  • Burmese: “ပါရီမြို့”
  • Cajun French: “Paris”
  • Catalan: “la ciutat de la llum”
  • Catalan: “París”
  • Cebuano: “Paris”
  • Central Bikol: “Paris”
  • Central Kanuri: “Paris”
  • Central Kurdish: “پاریس”
  • Chamorro: “Paris, Francia”
  • Chamorro: “Paris”
  • Chavacano: “Paris”
  • Chechen: “Париж”
  • Cherokee: “ᏆᏫ”
  • Cheyenne: “Paris”
  • Chinese: “Bālí”
  • Chinese: “Pa-lí”
  • Chinese: “巴黎”
  • Chinese: “巴黎市”
  • Chinese: “巴黎省”
  • Church Slavic: “Парижь”
  • Chuvash: “Париж”
  • Chuvash: “Парис”
  • Cornish: “Paris”
  • Corsican: “Pariggi”
  • Corsican: “Parighji”
  • Corsican: “Parigi”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Paris”
  • Croatian: “Paris”
  • Croatian: “Pariz”
  • Czech: “Paris”
  • Czech: “Paříž”
  • Dagbani: “Paris”
  • Danish: “Paris”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Paris”
  • Dotyali: “पेरिस”
  • Dutch: “Lutetia”
  • Dutch: “Parijs (Frankrijk)”
  • Dutch: “Parijs”
  • Dzongkha: “Paris”
  • Eastern Mari: “Париж”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “باريس”
  • Erzya: “Париж ош”
  • Esperanto: “Paris”
  • Esperanto: “Parizo”
  • Estonian: “Pariis”
  • Ewe: “Paris”
  • Extremaduran: “París”
  • Faroese: “Paris”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Paris”
  • Fijian: “Parisi”
  • Finnish: “Pariisi”
  • Fon: “Paris”
  • French: “FR-75”
  • French: “Lutèce”
  • French: “Paname”
  • French: “Paris”
  • French: “Ville de l’Amour”
  • French: “Ville de Paris”
  • French: “Ville-Lumière”
  • French: “Pantruche” (historical)
  • Friulian: “Parîs”
  • Fulah: “Pari”
  • Gagauz: “Parij”
  • Gagauz: “Paris”
  • Galician: “París”
  • Gan Chinese: “巴黎”
  • Ganda: “Paris”
  • Georgian: “პარიზი”
  • German: “Paris”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Paris”
  • Gilaki: “پاريس”
  • Goan Konkani: “Paris”
  • Gothic: “𐍀𐌰𐍂𐌹𐍃”
  • Greek: “Παρίσι”
  • Greek: “Πόλη του φωτός”
  • Guarani: “Parĩ”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Pari”
  • Gujarati: “પૅરિસ”
  • Gujarati: “પેરિસ”
  • Gun: “Paris”
  • Haitian: “Pari”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Pâ-lì-sṳ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Pâ-lì”
  • Hausa: “Faris”
  • Hausa: “Pariis”
  • Hawaiian: “Palika”
  • Hebrew: “פריז”
  • Hebrew: “פריס”
  • Hindi: “पेरिस”
  • Hindi: “पैरिस”
  • Hungarian: “Párizs”
  • Icelandic: “París”
  • Ido: “Paris”
  • Iloko: “Paris”
  • Inari Sami: “Pariisi”
  • Indonesian: “Paris”
  • Ingush: “Параж”
  • Ingush: “Париж”
  • Interlingua: “Paris”
  • Interlingue: “Paris”
  • Inuktitut: “ᐱᐅᕆᔅ”
  • Irish: “Páras”
  • Italian: “Lutezia”
  • Italian: “Parigi”
  • Italian: “Paris”
  • Italian: “Ville de Paris”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Paris”
  • Japanese: “はなのみやこ”
  • Japanese: “ぱり”
  • Japanese: “パリ”
  • Japanese: “ぱりし”
  • Japanese: “パリ市”
  • Japanese: “フランスの首都”
  • Japanese: “ルテティア”
  • Japanese: “巴里”
  • Japanese: “花の都”
  • Javanese: “Paris”
  • Kabardian: “Париж”
  • Kabiyè: “Paarii”
  • Kabyle: “Paris”
  • Kalaallisut: “Paris”
  • Kannada: “ಪ್ಯಾರಿಸ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Parij”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Paris”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Париж”
  • Kashmiri: “پیرِس”
  • Kashubian: “Pariz”
  • Kazakh: “Париж қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Париж”
  • Khmer: “ប៉ារីស”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Paris”
  • Kirghiz: “Париж”
  • Kölsch: “Paris”
  • Komering: “Paris”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Париж”
  • Komi: “Париж”
  • Kongo: “Paris”
  • Korean: “빠리”
  • Korean: “파리”
  • Kotava: “Paris”
  • Kurdish: “Parîs”
  • Ladin: “Paris”
  • Ladino: “Paris”
  • Lao: “ປາຣີ”
  • Lao: “ປາຣີດສ໌”
  • Latgalian: “Pariža”
  • Latin: “Lutèce” (historical)
  • Latin: “Lutetia Parisorum” (historical)
  • Latin: “Lutetia” (historical)
  • Latin: “Parisius”
  • Latvian: “Parīze”
  • Lezghian: “Париж”
  • Ligurian: “Pariggi”
  • Ligurian: “Parìggi”
  • Limburgan: “Paries”
  • Lingala: “Pari”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Paris”
  • Literary Chinese: “巴黎”
  • Lithuanian: “Paryžius”
  • Livvi: “Pariižu”
  • Lojban: “paris”
  • Lombard: “Paris”
  • Low German: “Paries”
  • Low German: “Paris”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Paris”
  • Luxembourgish: “Paräis”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Parij”
  • Macedonian: “Париз”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Paris”
  • Maithili: “पेरिस”
  • Malagasy: “Paris”
  • Malay: “Paris”
  • Malayalam: “പാരിസ്”
  • Maltese: “Pariġi”
  • Manx: “Paarys”
  • Manx: “Paris”
  • Manx: “Phaarys”
  • Maori: “Parī”
  • Marathi: “पॅरिस”
  • Mazanderani: “پاریس”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Bă-là̤”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Pa-lí”
  • Minangkabau: “Paris”
  • Mingrelian: “პარიზი”
  • Mirandese: “Paris”
  • Moksha: “Париз”
  • Mongolian: “Парис”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “باريز”
  • N'Ko: “ߔߊ߬ߙߌ߬߸ ߝߊ߬ߙߊ߲߬ߛߌ߬”
  • N'Ko: “ߔߊ߬ߙߌ߬”
  • N'Ko: “ߦߋߟߋ߲ ߛߏ”
  • Narom: “Paris”
  • Nauru: “Paris”
  • Navajo: “Wótʼááh Yíʼáhí”
  • Neapolitan: “Parigge”
  • Nepali: “पेरिस”
  • Newari: “पेरिस”
  • Northern Frisian: “Pariis”
  • Northern Luri: “شهر پاریس”
  • Northern Sami: “Paris”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Paris”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Paris”
  • Norwegian: “Paris”
  • Novial: “Paris”
  • Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Paris”
  • Nyanja: “Paris”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “París”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܦܐܪܝܣ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Paris”
  • Oriya: “ଆଲୋକମାଳାର ସହର”
  • Oriya: “ପ୍ୟାରିସ,ଫ୍ରାନ୍ସ”
  • Oriya: “ପ୍ୟାରିସ”
  • Oromo: “Paaris”
  • Ossetian: “Париж”
  • Paiwan: “Paris, Île-de-France”
  • Paiwan: “paris”
  • Pampanga: “Paris”
  • Panjabi: “ਪੈਰਿਸ”
  • Papiamento: “Paris”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Paris”
  • Persian: “پاریز، پَریز، پری”
  • Persian: “پاریس”
  • Picard: “Paris”
  • Piemontese: “Paris”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Paris”
  • Polish: “Paris”
  • Polish: “Paryż”
  • Pontic: “Παρίσι”
  • Portuguese: “Paris, França”
  • Portuguese: “Paris”
  • Portuguese: “Ville de Paris”
  • Prussian: “Paris”
  • Pushto: “پاريس”
  • Pushto: “پاریس”
  • Quechua: “Paris”
  • Romagnol: “Paris”
  • Romanian: “Orașul Luminilor”
  • Romanian: “Paris”
  • Romansh: “Paris”
  • Rundi: “Paris”
  • Russia Buriat: “Парис”
  • Russian: “Париж (столица)”
  • Russian: “Париж (Франция)”
  • Russian: “Париж, Франция”
  • Russian: “Париж”
  • Rusyn: “Паріж”
  • Samoan: “Pale”
  • Samoan: “Parisi”
  • Samogitian: “Parīžios”
  • Sango: “Paris”
  • Santali: “ᱯᱮᱨᱤᱥ”
  • Sardinian: “Parigi”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Paris”
  • Scots: “Paris”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Paras”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Paris”
  • Serbian: “Paris”
  • Serbian: “град светлости”
  • Serbian: “Париз, Француска”
  • Serbian: “Париз”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Pariz”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Париз”
  • Shona: “Paris”
  • Sicilian: “Pariggi”
  • Silesian: “Paryż”
  • Sindhi: “پيرس”
  • Sinhala: “පැරිස්”
  • Sinhala: “පැරීසිය”
  • Skolt Sami: “Pariis”
  • Slovak: “Paris”
  • Slovak: “Paríž”
  • Slovenian: “Lutecija”
  • Slovenian: “Mesto ljubezni”
  • Slovenian: “Mesto luči”
  • Slovenian: “Pariz”
  • Somali: “Baariis”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پاریس”
  • Southern Sotho: “Paris”
  • Spanish: “La Ciudad de la Luz”
  • Spanish: “La Ciudad del Amor”
  • Spanish: “La Ciudad Luz”
  • Spanish: “Paris”
  • Spanish: “París”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Paris”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴱⴰⵔⵉⵣ”
  • Sundanese: “Paris”
  • Swahili: “Paris”
  • Swati: “Paris”
  • Swedish: “Paris”
  • Swiss German: “Paris”
  • Tachawit: “Pari”
  • Tachelhit: “Bariz”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Paris”
  • Tagalog: “Paris”
  • Tahitian: “Paris”
  • Tajik: “Париж”
  • Tajik: “Порис”
  • Talysh: “Paris”
  • Tamil: “பாரிசு”
  • Tamil: “பாரிஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Париж”
  • Telugu: “పారిస్”
  • Tetum: “París”
  • Thai: “ปารีส”
  • Tibetan: “ཕ་རི།”
  • Tok Pisin: “Paris”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Palesi”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Pariisi”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Paris”
  • Tumbuka: “Paris”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “باريس”
  • Turkish: “Paris”
  • Turkmen: “Pariž”
  • Tuvinian: “Париж”
  • Twi: “Paris”
  • Tyap: “Parit”
  • Tyap: “Pari̱t”
  • Udmurt: “Париж”
  • Uighur: “پارىژ”
  • Ukrainian: “Париж”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Paris”
  • Urdu: “پیرس، فرانس”
  • Urdu: “پیرس”
  • Urdu: “روشنی کا شہر”
  • Urdu: “محبت کا شہر”
  • Uzbek: “Parij”
  • Venetian: “Parixe”
  • Venetian: “Parize”
  • Veps: “Pariž”
  • Vietnamese: “Ba Lê”
  • Vietnamese: “Kinh đô ánh sáng”
  • Vietnamese: “Pa-ri”
  • Vietnamese: “Paris”
  • Vlaams: “Parys”
  • Vlax Romani: “Paris”
  • Volapük: “Paris”
  • Võro: “Pariis”
  • Walloon: “Paris”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Paris”
  • Welsh: “Baris”
  • Welsh: “Paris”
  • Western Armenian: “Փարիզ”
  • Western Frisian: “Parys”
  • Western Mari: “Париж”
  • Western Panjabi: “پیرس”
  • Wolof: “Pari”
  • Wu Chinese: “巴黎”
  • Xhosa: “Paris”
  • Yakut: “Париж”
  • Yiddish: “פאריז”
  • Yoruba: “Parisi”
  • Yue Chinese: “巴黎”
  • Zeeuws: “Paries”
  • Zhuang: “Bahliz”
  • Zulu: “IParisi”
  • “ma Paki”
  • “ma Paris”
  • “ma tomo Paki”
  • “ma tomo Paris”
  • “Parì”
  • “Parigge”
  • “Pariis”
  • “Parij”
  • “Paris”
  • “Parīžios”
  • “Париз”
  • “पैरिस”

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