Paris

**Paris**
	capital and most populous city in France Flag of the City of Paris Greater coat of arms of the City of Paris Lesser coat of arms of the City of Paris
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Pronunciation audio	Frenchⓘ
Instance of	territorial collectivity of France with special status (commune of France, department of France, 2019–); metropolis (Paris metropolitan area); global city; megacity; largest city (France);
Part of	Île-de-France;
Named after	Parisii;
Patron saint	Genevieve of Paris;
Location	Grand Paris; France;
Located in or next to body of water	Seine; Bassin de la Villette; Canal Saint-Martin; Canal de l'Ourcq;
Diocese	Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Paris;
Legislative body	Council of Paris;
Official language	French;
Head of government	Anne Hidalgo (Socialist Party, 2014–);
Legal form	commune of France with specific status;
Inception	3rd century BC;
Significant event	Paris Commune (1871); French Revolution (1789);
Highest point	highest point of Paris;
Population	2,113,705 (2022);
Area	105.4 km²;
Elevation above sea level	48 m;
Replaces	Lutetia; Paris Department (2019–);
Budget	7,561,800,000 euro (2026);
IATA airport code	PAR;
Different from	Paris ; Paris; Paris; Paris; Paris; Paris; Paris; Paris; Paris; Paris; Paris; Paris; Paris; Paris; Paris; Paris; Paris; Q120297794 ; Paris; Paris; Paris; Paris; Paris; Paris; Paris; Paris; Paris; Paris; Paris; Paris;
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	48° 51′ 24″ N, 2° 21′ 08″ E
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Paris is the capital of France.

Pronunciation

French
English

Panorama

Symbol

Coat of arms of Paris
Insigne Lutetiae Coronatum (2016)
Grandes armes de Paris
Flag of Paris
Logo Ville de Paris (City of Paris)
Logo

Map

Historical map

Lutetia, the first map of Paris
508
1223
1575
1615
1657
17th century
1736
1740
1889 birds eye view

Satellite imagery

10m/pixel, city
Landsat view (false colours), city
10m/pixel, city
Landsat view (false colours), city
View from the International Space Station

Monument

Eiffel Tower

At sunrise from the Trocadero
From south, Trocadero garden
From north, Avenue de New York along the Seine River
La belle de Paris !
From Cité de l’Architecture, in Chaillot Palace
General view over Paris around Trocadero
2024 Summer Olympics

Palais Garnier

Façade
Nighttime view
circa 1900
date QS:P,+1900-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Le Grand foyer
Main staircase
Pavillon de l’Empereur (left side)
detail: Roof
view: from avenue de l'Opéra

Grand Palais and Petit Palais

Aerial photography
Grand Palais and
Pont Alexandre III

Arc de Triomphe

Aerial photography
Arc de triomphe de l'Étoile 1939.
Paris was liberated on August 26, 1944.
1860

Louvre Palace

Aerial photography
Richelieu Wing

Les Invalides

Garden
Dôme des Invalides
Sarcophagus of
Napoleon
(Quartzite of Karelia)
Tribune organ of the Hotel des Invalides

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Churches

Notre-Dame de Paris

Notre-Dame de Paris au printemps
westside
detail of the westside
Lower part of the front westside
view from east
view from south east
view from south east by night
westside, portal of the last judgement
Gargoyle
inside
inside
North rose
vitrail de la Fuite en Égypte

Sainte Chapelle

upper level
low level
detail
rose window
view from north

Sacré-Cœur

View from the foot of the hill
Outside
Inside
Skyline
Low-angle shot
Sacré-coeur roof

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Museum

Louvre Museum

Nighttime view
Entrance
(Louvre Pyramid)
The fall of Icarus
(Merry-Joseph Blondel, 1819)
Greek antiquities, room 17
Écoliers au Louvre
Artistes peignant au Louvre
The Seated Scribe
(anonymous, 2600 BC)
Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss
(Antonio Canova, 1793)
Tomb of Philippe Pot
(anonymous, 1477)
Mona Lisa
(Leonardo da Vinci, between 1503 and 1506
date QS:P,+1503-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1503-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1506-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
)
Liberty Leading the People
(Eugène Delacroix, 1830)

Musée d'Orsay

Vincent van Gogh's Starry Night Over the Rhone
Luncheon on the Grass from Edouard Manet
Gustave Courbet, The painter's atelier, detail
Vincent van Gogh's Starry Night Over the Rhone
La Moulin de la Galette from Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Hébé endormie from Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse
Masc from Louis Welden Hawkins

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Park and Garden

Seine in Paris

Bridge

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Île Saint Louis from the Pont de la Tournelle.
Dredging in the Seine river in Paris
View over the Seine in Paris, Pont des Invalides in the foreground, Eiffel tower in the background

Fountain and Sculpture

Fontaines de la Concorde
Medici Fountain
Fontaine des Innocents
Fontaine Saint-Michel
Fontaine Saint-Sulpice
Fontaine de l'Observatoire
Wallace fountain
Fontaine Cuvier
Fontaine du Château d'eau
Fontaine du Palmier
Fountain of place de la Contrescarpe
tête de boeuf, 8, rue des Hospitalières-Saint-Gervais
La Science par Jules Blanchard devant l'Hôtel de ville
Le Bon Samaritain, sculpture de François-Léon Sicard (1896) et l'araignée de Louise Bourgeois aux Tuileries.
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Paris

Square

Municipal arrondissement of Paris

Paris contains 20 districts or arrondissements.

Street and Administrative quarter of Paris

Les Halles

Île de la Cité view from Notre Dame
A picture taken in Paris in 1910.
Avenue des Champs-Élysées view from Arc de Triomphe
Avenue des Champs-Élysées view from Concorde
Avenue de la Grande-Armée view from Arc de Triomphe
Avenue des Champs-Élysées
Avenue de la Grande-Armée
Île de la Cité
Rue de Rivoli
Rue Rollin
Rue Saint-Jacques and Lycée Louis-le-Grand
Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré
Rue Abel
Rue Montgallet
Avenue d'Italie
Beaugrenelle
Rue Oberkampf
Bassin de la Villette
Hôtel Duret de Chevry
Quai de Grenelle

Architectural element

Entrance Petit Palais
Roofs, "Ile de la Cité" 1st district
Door (1714), 5th district
Door (1657) , 5th district
Door (e.1600), 5th district
Door Art Nouveau (1904), rue du Champ de Mars, 7th district
Door Art Nouveau (1900), av. Rapp, 7th district
Building Art Nouveau (1900), av. Rapp, 7th district

Theatre building and Convention center

Salle Richelieu
Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe
Théâtre du Châtelet
Theater : "Théatre de la Ville" from the side and "Tour St Jacques"
Theater : "Théatre de la Ville" from the "Place du Chatelet"
Théâtre de la Renaissance
Bataclan
Olympia
Opéra-Comique
Salle Pleyel
La Cigale
Cinema Bibliothèque F Mitterrand
Maison de la Mutualité
Moulin Rouge
Le Palace

City hall

Commercial area

Café, restaurant and hotel

Shop

Galeries Lafayette Haussmann
(dome)
Galeries Lafayette departement store: inside the main building
Galeries Lafayette departement store: by night at Christmas
Bazar de l'Hôtel de Ville
(façade)
Le Bon Marché
(façade)
Le Bon Marché
(interior)
La Samaritaine
(façade)
Printemps
(façade)
Printemps
(nighttime view)
Rue Mouffetard
Stand of a bouquiniste (french term for second-hand books resellers)
Chanel
(Place Vendôme)
Passage Jouffroy
Galerie Colbert
Galerie Vivienne
Galerie Vivienne
(shopping center)
Flea market
(Porte de Clignancourt)
Bakery
Grocery store
Louis Vuitton

Public transport

Railway station

Paris Métro

Other transport stations

Réseau express régional (Transilien)

Tramways in Île-de-France

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University, Lyceum and Library

Sports venue

Suburb

La Défense

sunset
View from Arc de Triomphe
Skyline
The Grande Arche
view from the Grande Arche
view from Saint-Cloud

Basilica of Saint-Denis

Nave
The northwest nave
Louis XVI of France and Marie Antoinette
(Tomb)
Tomb of Clovis II (foreground) and Charles Martel

Versailles

Other places in Parisian suburbs

History of Paris

rue Saint-Denis
(1802)
Eiffel Tower
(1888)
Exposition Universelle of 1900
(entrance)
Porte Saint-Denis
(1908)
Grand Hôtel at the corner of Place de l'Opéra
(1890)
Paris
(1890)
Monument to the Republic
(1890)
Vue sur l'Exposition universelle de 1937 à Paris.

Painting and Drawing

Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry, October
(1416)
Ball at the Wedding of the Duke of Joyeuse
(1581)
Battle of the Faubourg St Antoine
(1652)
The Pont Neuf and the Samaritaine, Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Raguenet
(18th century)
Français : Louis XV sortant du lit de justice tenu au parlement le 12 septembre 1715 from Pierre-Denis Martin (1673-1742)
Français : Prise de la Bastille (1789) from Charles Thévenin (1793)
Français : Fête de la Fédération (1790) from Charles Thévenin
Français : Démolition de l'église Saint-Barthélemy (1791) Pierre-Antoine Demachy
"Absolutely no agreement" (ca 1790) from Louis-Leopold Boilly (ca 1797)
"Passer Payez", ca. 1803 from Louis-Leopold Boilly.
Entrance to a free show at the Ambigu-Comique Theatre from Louis-Léopold Boilly (1819)
French Revolution of 1830 from Horace Vernet
French Revolution of 1830 from Hippolyte Lecomte
Porte Saint-Denis vers 1840 par Ph. Benoist
St. Germain l'Auxerrois
(Claude Monet, 1867)
Le Pont Neuf
(Claude Monet, 1873)
Boulevard des Capucines
(Claude Monet, 1873)
Le pont de l'Europe
(Gustave Caillebotte, 1876)
Paris Street; Rainy Day
(Gustave Caillebotte, 1877)
Vue de toits
(Gustave Caillebotte, 1878)
Boulevard Montmartre, sunny afternoon
(Camille Pissarro, 1897)
Street in Montmartre
(Willem de Zwart, between 1885 and 1931
date QS:P,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1885-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1931-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
)
La Rue Montorgueil
(Claude Monet, 1886)
The Eiffel Tower
(Henri Rousseau, 1898)