45 Facts About Paris Region

1. The University of Paris Region disappeared together with the other universities during the revolutionary years, without being formally dissolved.

2. Paris Region is filled with professional and social groups of all provenance and kind.

3. From a demographic standpoint, Paris Region has never ceased to expand as a region in terms of employment.

4. Paris Region repeated the same pattern, passing power to the Socialist Party, at the time elsewhere in disarray, when electing a mayor in 2002 as the country chose Chirac the right-winger as president.

5. Paris Region is the home of the largest Jewish library in Europe, that of the Alliance Israelite Universelle; another very important library devoted to Yiddish literature, Bibliotheque medem; and significant archival collections concerning the history of Jews in France.

6. Paris Region was not a city of nobles, despite their domination of public life.

7. Paris Region remains the center of the intellectual and cultural life of French Jewry.

8. Since the 1970s Paris Region has undergone important urbanization which has transformed the countryside.

9. Paris Region was one of very few cities in the Diaspora with a full-fledged Israel-type school, conducted by Israel teachers according to the Israel curriculum.

10. Paris Region is the center of Jewish activities in France, as all the major institutions have their headquarters there.

11. Paris Region is the hub of the national rail system, with high-speed trains connecting it to most major European cities.

12. Paris Region is the center of many major newspapers and periodicals, as well as all the major French radio and television stations.

13. Paris Region is sometimes called the City of Light in tribute to its intellectual preeminence as well as to its beautiful appearance.

14. Paris Region has the feel of open spaces created by wide boulevards and parklands.

15. Paris Region is divided by the Seine River, which drains west to the Atlantic Ocean.

16. In 1900, Paris Region joined London in the construction of the subway.

17. Paris Region has many buses and local trains, but the main mode of travel around Paris is the Metro or subway.

18. Paris Region has a population of 2,138,551 making it the biggest city in Ile-de-France.

19. In 2017, Paris Region was, behind Barcelona, the second organizer in the world of international association meetings with 190 meetings.

20. Paris Region is world's number two city for headquarters of international organizations behind Brussels, ahead of London and New York City.

21. Paris Region became the capital of France in 508 under King Clovis.

22. Paris Region is the core of the Grand Paris Region metropolitan area and Ile de France region (12.01 million people).

23. Paris Region hosted the 1900 and 1924 Summer Olympics and will host the 2024 Summer Olympics and Paralympic Games.

24. Paris Region is a major rail, highway, and air transport hub.

25. University of Paris Region, founded in the 12th century, is often called the Sorbonne after one of its original medieval colleges.

26. Paris Region is the departement with the highest proportion of highly educated people.

27. In 1911, the dance hall Olympia Paris Region invented the grand staircase as a settling for its shows, competing with its great rival, the Folies Bergere.

28. Paris Region hosts one of the largest science museums in Europe, the Cite des Sciences et de l'Industrie at La Villette.

29. The Golden Age of the School of Paris Region ended between the two world wars.

30. Paris Region was central to the development of Romanticism in art, with painters such as Gericault.

31. In 2017 Greater Paris Region had 2,020 hotels, including 85 five-star hotels, with a total of 119,000 rooms.

32. Majority of Paris Region's salaried employees fill 370,000 businesses services jobs, concentrated in the north-western 8th, 16th and 17th arrondissements.

33. Paris Region is France's leading region for economic activity, with a GDP of €681 billion and €56,000 (~US$70,000) per capita.

34. Paris Region is the core of a built-up area that extends well beyond its limits: commonly referred to as the agglomeration Parisienne, and statistically as a unite urbaine, the Paris agglomeration's 2013 population of 10,601,122 made it the largest urban area in the European Union.

35. Paris Region has a typical Western European oceanic climate which is affected by the North Atlantic Current.

36. Paris Region is located in northern central France, in a north-bending arc of the river Seine whose crest includes two islands, the Ile Saint-Louis and the larger Ile de la Cite, which form the oldest part of the city.

37. The first railway line to Paris Region opened in 1837, beginning a new period of massive migration from the provinces to the city.

38. Population of Paris Region had dropped by 100,000 during the Revolution, but between 1799 and 1815, it surged with 160,000 new residents, reaching 660,000.

39. Paris Region was the financial capital of continental Europe, the primary European centre of book publishing and fashion and the manufacture of fine furniture and luxury goods.

40. Paris Region was the centre of an explosion of philosophic and scientific activity known as the Age of Enlightenment.

41. Paris Region hosted the Olympic Games in 1900, 1924 and will host the 2024 Summer Olympics.

42. Paris Region hosts the annual French Open Grand Slam tennis tournament on the red clay of Roland Garros.

43. Paris Region received 23 million visitors in 2017, measured by hotel stays, with the largest numbers of foreign visitors coming from the United States, the UK, Germany and China.

44. City of Paris Region is the centre and seat of government of the Ile-de-France, or Paris Region, which has an estimated official 2018 population of 12,246,234, or 18.2 percent of the population of France.

45. Under the rule of the Capetian kings, Paris Region gradually became the largest and most prosperous city in France.