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GEOGRAPHY

Paris is populous city of France. It is situated on the Sience River, in the north of the

country, at the heart of the Île-de-France region. Within its administrative limits

(the 20 arrondissements), the city had 2,234,105 inhabitants in 2009 while

its metropolitan areais one of the largest population centres in Europe with more than

12 million inhabitants.

SPORTS Paris is home to the association football club Paris

Saint-Germain FC and the rugby union club Stade Français. The 80,000-seat Stade de France, built for the 1998 FIFA World Cup, is located in Saint-Denis. Slam tennis tournament on the red clay of Roland Garros. Paris played host to the 1900 and1924 Summer Olympics, the 1938 and 1998 FIFA World Cup, and the 2007 Rugby World Cup. The city is a major rail, highway, and air-transport hub, served by the two international airports Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Paris-Orly. Opened in 1900, the city's subway system, the Paris Métro, serves 5.23 million passengers daily. Paris is the hub of the national road network, and is surrounded by three orbital roads: the Périphérique, the A86 motorway, and theFrancilienne motorway in the outer suburbs.

ARTS

Centuries of cultural and political development have brought Paris a variety of museums, theatres, monuments and architectural styles. Many of its masterpieces such as the Louvre and the Arc de Triomphe are iconic buildings, especially its internationally recognized symbol, the Eiffel Tower. Long regarded as an international centre for the arts, works by history's most famous painters can be found in the Louvre, the Musée d'Orsay and its many other museums and galleries. Paris is a global hub of fashion and has been referred to as the "international capital of style", noted for its haute couture tailoring, its high-end boutiques, and the twice-yearly Paris Fashion Week. It is world renowned for its haute cuisine, attracting many of the world's leading chefs. Many of France's most prestigious universities and Grandes Écoles are in Paris or its suburbs, and France's major newspapers Le Monde,Le Figaro, Libération are based in the city, and Le Parisien in Saint-Ouen near Paris.