Paris, France's capital, is a major European city and a worldwide place for craftsmanship, design, gastronomy and society. Its beautiful 19th-century cityscape is bungled by wide streets and the River Seine. Past such points of interest as the Eiffel Tower and the 12th-century, Gothic Notre-Dame basilica, the city is known for its bistro society, and planner boutiques along the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré.
Paris (UK:/ˈpærɪs/; US: Listeni/ˈpɛərɪs/; French: [paʁi] ( tune in)) is the capital and most-crowded city of France. Arranged on the Seine River, in the north of the nation, it is in the focal point of the Île-de-France district, otherwise called the région parisienne, "Paris Region". The City of Paris has a zone of 105.4 square kilometers (40.7 square miles) and a populace of 2,273,305 individuals inside its city limits, It has the most crowded urban territory in the European Union. The Paris Region covers 12,012 square kilometers (4,638 square miles), and has its own particular provincial board and president. It has a populace of 12,005,077 as of January 2014, or 18.2 percent of the number of inhabitants in France.
Paris was established in the 3rd century BC by a Celtic individuals called the Parisii, who gave the city its name. By the 12th century, Paris was the biggest city in the western world, a prosperous exchanging focus, and the home of the University of Paris, one of the first in Europe. In the 18th century, it was the inside stage for the French Revolution, and turned into a critical focus of money, business, design, science, and expressions of the human experience, a position regardless it holds today.
The Paris Region had a GDP of €612 billion (US$760 billion) in 2012, representing 30.1 percent of the GDP of France, and positioning it as one of the wealthiest five areas in Europe; it is the managing an account and monetary focus of France, and contains the central command of 30 organizations in the Fortune Global 500.
Paris is the home of the most gone by craftsmanship gallery on the planet, the Louver, and also the Musée d'Orsay, noted for its accumulation of French Impressionist workmanship, and the Musée National d'Art Moderne, an exhibition hall of current and contemporary craftsmanship. The striking building points of interest of Paris incorporate the Notre Dame Cathedral (12th century); Sainte-Chapelle (13th century); the Eiffel Tower (1889); and the Basilica of Sacré-Cœur on Montmartre (1914). In 2013 Paris got 29.3 million guests, making it one of the world's top visitor destinations. Paris is additionally known for its mold, especially the twice-yearly Paris Fashion Week, and for its haute cooking, and three-star eateries. The majority of France's real colleges and grandes écoles are situated in Paris, similar to France's significant daily papers, including Le Monde, Le Figaro, and Libération.
Paris is home to the affiliation football club Paris Saint-Germain and the rugby union club Stade Français. The 80,000-seat Stade de France, assembled for the 1998 FIFA World Cup, is situated in Saint-Denis. Paris has the yearly French Open Grand Slam tennis competition on the red dirt of Roland Garros. Paris played host to the 1900 and 1924 Summer Olympics, the 1938 and 1998 FIFA World Cups, and the 2007 Rugby World Cup.
The city is a significant rail, thruway, and air-transport center, served by the two worldwide airplane terminals Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Paris-Orly. Opened in 1900, the city's tram framework, the Paris Métro, serves 9 million travelers day by day.
Geography
Paris is situated in northern focal France. By street it is 450 kilometers (280 mi) south-east of London, 287 kilometers (178 mi) south of Calais, 305 kilometers (190 mi) south-west of Brussels, 774 kilometers (481 mi) north of Marseille, 385 kilometers (239 mi) north-east of Nantes, and 135 kilometers (84 mi) south-east of Rouen. Paris is situated in the north-twisting circular segment of the stream Seine and incorporates two islands, the Île Saint-Louis and the bigger Île de la Cité, which shape the most established piece of the city. In general, the city is moderately level, and the least point is 35 m (115 ft) above ocean level. Paris has a few conspicuous slopes, the most astounding of which is Montmartre at 130 m (427 ft). The stream's mouth on the English Channel (La Manche) is around 233 mi (375 km) downstream of the city, made around 7600 BC. The city is spread broadly on both banks of the river.It picked up its name from the affliction of Saint Denis, first cleric of Paris, on the Mons Martyrum, "Saint's hill", in 250.
Barring the peripheral parks of Bois de Boulogne and Bois de Vincennes, Paris covers an oval measuring around 87 km2 (34 sq mi) in zone, encased by the 35 km (22 mi) ring street, the Boulevard Périphérique. The city's last real addition of distant domains in 1860 issued its advanced frame as well as made the 20 clockwise-spiraling arrondissements (metropolitan districts). From the 1860 region of 78 km2 (30 sq mi), as far as possible were extended imperceptibly to 86.9 km2 (33.6 sq mi) in the 1920s. In 1929, the Bois de Boulogne and Bois de Vincennes woodland parks were authoritatively added to the city, bringing its zone to around 105 km2 (41 sq mi).[69] The metropolitan region of the city is 2,300 km2 (890 sq mi).
Climate
Paris has an ordinary Western European maritime atmosphere (Köppen atmosphere order: Cfb ) which is influenced by the North Atlantic Current. The general atmosphere during the time is gentle and tolerably wet. Summer days are normally warm and lovely with normal temperatures drifting somewhere around 15 and 25 °C (59 and 77 °F), and a decent lot of daylight. Every year, in any case, there are a couple of days where the temperature transcends 32 °C (90 °F). A few years have even seen long stretches of unforgiving summer climate, for example, the warmth wave of 2003 when temperatures surpassed 30 °C (86 °F) for a considerable length of time, surged up to 40 °C (104 °F) on a few days and occasional chilled off during the evening. All the more as of late, the normal temperature for July 2011 was 17.6 °C (63.7 °F), with a normal least temperature of 12.9 °C (55.2 °F) and a normal greatest temperature of 23.7 °C (74.7 °F).
Spring and pre-winter have, overall, mellow days and new evenings yet are changing and shaky. Shockingly warm or cool climate happens every now and again in both seasons. In winter, daylight is rare; days are cool yet for the most part above solidifying with temperatures around 7 °C (45 °F). Light night ices are however truly normal, yet the temperature will plunge beneath −5 °C (23 °F) for just a couple of days a year. Snow falls consistently, yet infrequently keep focused ground. The city in some cases sees light snow or whirlwinds with or without gathering.
