Map of Paris, France

Map of Paris, France

 

Paris - capital of France , the administrative center of the region Ile- de-France. A separate department of France. Located on the River Seine . Population - 2,233,818 people ( 2010) , metropolitan areas - 10 million

 

Headquarters of several international organizations: UNESCO, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development , the International Chamber of Commerce and others.

 

World Trade Center (cars , planes, office supplies and camping equipment ), the main national industrial district (means of transport , power equipment , electronics , clothing, cosmetics) , finance and banking capital , a major transport hub ( 2 international airports) .
Higher education institutions (13 universities) , the French Institute, the French Academy.
Famous research institutes (Institute Pasteur , radiological studies).

 

Cultural (97 museums , 300 art galleries , ca. 100 theaters ) and the tourist center of international importance.

 

Today Paris is divided into 20 administrative districts , the numbering of which is the center of the spiral clockwise. Most district is also the last two digits postcode Paris (For example , XIV county has code 75014 ).

 

The external appearance of modern city acquired in the middle of the XIX century as a result of an ambitious restructuring. Many centuries before that, the city consisted of a maze of narrow streets and wooden houses.

 

In 1852, a plan of improvement , conceived by Baron Osman, was destroyed whole blocks of old buildings , and in their place were broad avenues and built into a single line of stone buildings in the neoclassical style , typical of a new era bourgeois. Principles mistoustroyu time of Napoleon III and now are still relevant : the height and size of buildings subject to a single law uniformity , and the middle of the XIX century was made only a few exceptions to the rule. This Paris is a city of low buildings.