 Paris (nicknamed the "City of light") is the capital city of France, and the largest city in France.

e. The area is 105

km2, and around 2.15 million people live there. If suburbs are counted, the population of the Paris area rises to
12 million people.
 The Seine river runs through the oldest part of Paris, and divides it into two parts, known as the Left Bank and
the Right Bank. It is surrounded by many forests.
 Paris is also the center of French economy, politics, traffic and culture. Paris has many art museums and
historical buildings. As a traffic center, Paris has a very good underground subway system (called the Metro). It
also has two airports. The Metro was built in 1900, and its total length is more than 200 km.
 The city has a multi-cultural style, because 20% of the people there are from outside France. There are many
different restaurants with all kinds of food. Paris also has some types of pollution like air pollution and light
pollution.
 Is the most famous sight in Paris, built by Gustave Eiffel in 1889
with 6,300 tons of iron — that means 18,000 pieces of iron and 2.5
million rivets. With a height of 300 meters, for a long time it was
the highest tower in the world. Over 6 million people visit it every
year. There are three levels that you can visit, and the highest one
is 2nd above the ground. It was made for a fair, but the
French governmentwanted to tear it down. With rising popularity,
it stayed.
 Is a museum with very famous, old works of art, such as the Mona
Lisa and the Venus de Milo. The building was built as a house for French
kings. The Louvre is the third biggest museum in the world, with 60,000
square meters of show room.[5] It is the most visited art museum in the
world with over 5 million people visit it each year.
 Notre Dame is a very old cathedral in Paris, France. It is one of France's most
famous landmarks and many people visit it each year. The cathedral is on a
small island on the Seine River. It is the cathedral of the CatholicArchdiocese of
Paris, one of 23 archdioceses in France. The cathedral was built during two
centuries. It is a very good example of Gothic Architecture in France. At the time it
was finished, the cathedral was the biggest such building in Western Europe.
Between 1844 and 1864, the building was renovated under the direction of Eugène
Viollet-le-Duc, who incorporated elements into the design that the medieval
building had not possessed before. The two rose windows which ornate the
transept are among the biggest in Europe: each has a diameter of 13m