Paris, France

Since the seventeenth century, Paris has been one of the world's main centers of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, gastronomy, science, and arts. The City of Paris is the center and seat of authorities of the vicinity and province of Île-de-France, or Paris Region, with an estimated populace of 12,997,058 in 2020, or about 18 percentage of the populace of France, making it in 2020 the greatest metropolitan region in Europe, and 14th biggest in the world in 2015. The Paris Region had a GDP of €709 billion ($808 billion) in 2017. According to the Economist Intelligence Unit Worldwide Cost of Living Survey in 2018, Paris was once the 2d most luxurious metropolis in the world, after Singapore and beforehand of Zürich, Hong Kong, Oslo, and Geneva. Another supply ranked Paris as most expensive, on par with Singapore and Hong Kong, in 2018.

Paris is a primary railway, highway, and air-transport hub served with the aid of two global airports: Paris–Charles de Gaulle (the second-busiest airport in Europe) and Paris–Orly.  Opened in 1900, the city's subway system, the Paris Métro, serves 5.23 million passengers daily; it is the second-busiest metro machine in Europe after the Moscow Metro. Gare du Nord is the 24th-busiest railway station in the world, however the busiest positioned backyard Japan, with 262 million passengers in 2015.  Paris is particularly acknowledged for its museums and architectural landmarks: the Louvre obtained 2.8 million site visitors in 2021, notwithstanding the lengthy museum closings triggered via the COVID-19 virus. The Musée d'Orsay, Musée Marmottan Monet and Musée de l'Orangerie are cited for their collections of French Impressionist art. The Pompidou Centre Musée National d'Art Moderne has the biggest series of present day and modern-day artwork in Europe. The Musée Rodin and Musée Picasso show off the works of two stated Parisians. The historic district alongside the Seine in the town centre has been categorised as a UNESCO World Heritage Site given that 1991; famous landmarks there encompass the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris on the Île de la Cité, now closed for renovation after the 15 April 2019 fire. Other famous vacationer web sites consist of the Gothic royal chapel of Sainte-Chapelle, additionally on the Île de la Cité; the Eiffel Tower, developed for the Paris Universal Exposition of 1889; the Grand Palais and Petit Palais, constructed for the Paris Universal Exposition of 1900; the Arc de Triomphe on the Champs-Élysées, and the hill of Montmartre with its creative records and its Basilica of Sacré-Coeur.

Paris acquired 12.6 million site visitors in 2020, measured through lodge stays, a drop of seventy three percentage from 2019, due to the COVID-19 virus. The variety of overseas site visitors declined by using 80.7 percent. Museums re-opened in 2021, with obstacles on the quantity of site visitors at a time and a requirement that traffic put on masks.

The soccer membership Paris Saint-Germain and the rugby union membership Stade Français are based totally in Paris. The 80,000-seat Stade de France, constructed for the 1998 FIFA World Cup, is placed simply north of Paris in the neighbouring commune of Saint-Denis. Paris hosts the annual French Open Grand Slam tennis event on the crimson clay of Roland Garros. The metropolis hosted the Olympic Games in 1900, 1924 and will host the 2024 Summer Olympics. The 1938 and 1998 FIFA World Cups, the 2007 Rugby World Cup, as nicely as the 1960, 1984 and 2016 UEFA European Championships had been additionally held in the city. Every July, the Tour de France bicycle race finishes on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris.

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