Paris

Paris (French: [paʁi] ( tune in)) is the capital and most crowded city of France. Arranged on the stream Seine in the north of the nation, it is in the focal point of the Île-de-France area, otherwise called the région parisienne, "Paris Region". The City of Paris to a great extent holds its one and a half extremely old authoritative limits, with a range of 105 km² (41 mi²) and starting 2014 a populace of 2,241,346. Together with its rural areas, the entire agglomeration has a populace of 10,550,350 (Jan. 2012 statistics). Paris' metropolitan territory traverses the majority of the Île-de-France district and has a populace of 12,341,418 (Jan. 2012 enumeration), constituting one-fifth of the number of inhabitants in France. The authoritative locale covers 12,012 km² (4,638 mi²), with roughly 12 million tenants starting 2014, and has its own territorial board and president. 

Paris was established in the third century BC by a Celtic individuals called the Parisii, who gave the city its name. By the twelfth 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 eighteenth century, it was the inside stage for the French Revolution, and turned into an essential focus of fund, trade, style, science, and expressions of the human experience, a position regardless it holds today. Since the nineteenth century, the developed zone of Paris has become a long ways past its managerial outskirts. 

Paris is the home of the most gone to craftsmanship historical center on the planet, the Louver, and additionally the Musée d'Orsay, noted for its gathering of French Impressionist workmanship, and the Musée National d'Art Moderne, an exhibition hall of cutting edge and contemporary craftsmanship. The outstanding compositional points of interest of Paris incorporate Notre Dame Cathedral (twelfth century); the Sainte-Chapelle (thirteenth century); the Eiffel Tower (1889); and the Basilica of Sacré-Cœur on Montmartre (1914). In 2014 Paris got 22.4 million guests, making it one of the world's top traveler destinations. Paris is likewise known for its design, especially the twice-yearly Paris Fashion Week, and for its haute food, and three-star eateries. A large portion of France's significant colleges and grandes écoles are situated in Paris, similar to France's real daily papers, including Le Monde, Le Figaro, and Libération. 

The affiliation football club Paris Saint-Germain and the rugby union club Stade Français are situated in Paris. The 80,000-seat Stade de France, worked for the 1998 FIFA World Cup, is found only north of Paris in the collective of Saint-Denis. Paris has the yearly French Open Grand Slam tennis competition on the red earth of Roland Garros. Paris facilitated the 1900 and 1924 Summer Olympics, the 1938 and 1998 FIFA World Cups, and the 2007 Rugby World Cup. Each July, the Tour de France of cycling completions in the city. 

The city is likewise a noteworthy rail, interstate, and air-transport center, served by the two worldwide airplane terminals Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Paris-Orly. Opened in 1900, the city's metro framework, the Paris Métro, serves 4.5 million travelers day by day. Paris is the center point of the national street arrange, and is encompassed by three orbital streets: the Périphérique, the A86 motorway, and the Francilienne motorway in the external rural areas. 

History 

Fundamental articles: History of Paris and Timeline of Paris 

Historical underpinnings 

See Wiktionary for the name of Paris in different dialects other than English and French. 

In the 1860s Paris roads and landmarks were enlightened by 56,000 gas lights, giving it the name "The City of Light." 

The name "Paris" is gotten from its initial occupants, the Celtic Parisii tribe. 

Paris is regularly alluded to as "The City of Light" (La Ville Lumière), both on account of its driving part amid the Age of Enlightenment, and all the more truly on the grounds that Paris was one of the primary European urban communities to receive gas road lighting. In the 1860s, the avenues and lanes of Paris were lit up by 56,000 gas lights. Since the late nineteenth century, Paris has additionally been known as Panam(e) (affirmed: [panam]) in French ..

Tenants are referred to in English as "Parisians" and in French as Parisiens ([paʁizjɛ̃] ( tune in)), derisively likewise called Parigots ([paʁiɡo] ( tune in)).