Paris (pronounced
/ˈpærɪs/ or
/ˈpɛrəs/ in
English;
[paʁi] (help·info) in
French) is the
capital of
France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river
Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the
Île-de-France region (also known as the "Paris Region";
French:
Région parisienne). The city of Paris, within its limits largely unchanged since 1860, has an estimated population of 2,167,994 (January 2006), but the Paris
aire urbaine (or
metropolitan area) has a population of over 11 million, and is the
most populated metropolitan area in the
Eurozone.(...)
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