Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,148,271 residents as of 2020. The city is a major railway, highway and air-transport hub served by two international airports: Paris–Charles de Gaulle and Paris–Orly. The Louvre was the most visited art museum in the world in 2019, with 9. 6 million visitors. Paris hosted the Olympic Games in 1900, 1924 and will host the 2024 Summer Olympics.
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Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,148,271 residents as of 2020. The City of Paris is the centre and seat of government of the Île-de-France, or Paris Region, which has an estimated official 2020 population of 12,278,210. The city is a major railway, highway and air-transport hub served by two international airports: Paris–Charles de Gaulle and Paris–Orly. The Louvre was the most visited art museum in the world in 2019, with 9. 6 million visitors. The name ‘Paris’ is derived from its early inhabitants, the Gallic Parisii tribe. Paris hosted the Olympic Games in 1900, 1924 and will host the 2024 Summer Olympics. Every July, the Tour de France bicycle race finishes on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris. The 80,000-seat Stade de France, built for the 1998 FIFA World Cup, is located just north of Paris in the neighbouring commune of Saint-Denis. Paris is often referred to as the ‘City of Light’ because of its leading role during the Age of Enlightenment. Since the late 19th century, Paris has also been known as the first large European city to use gas lamps on a grand scale on its boulevards and monuments. By the 1860s, the streets of Paris were illuminated by 56,000 gas lamps and Paris was known as ‘the city of light’ The name Parisii may derive from the root pario-.
Alfred Holder interpreted Parisii as the name of ‘the makers’ or ‘the commanders’, by comparing the name to the Welsh peryff, from peryaf – peraf – or ‘peraf’ The city’s name is not related to the Greek mythology of the same name, but to the French city of Paris, which was founded in 13th century. Paris has been one of Europe’s major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, science and arts since the 17th century and is now one of the world’s largest cities. The Paris Region had a GDP of €709 billion in 2017, and Paris is ranked as the second most expensive city in world, after Singapore, and ahead of Zürich, Hong Kong, Oslo and Geneva. The football club Paris Saint-Germain and the rugby union club Stade Français are based in Paris, and the French Open Grand Slam tennis tournament is played on the red clay of Roland Garros. The Eiffel Tower was constructed for the Paris Universal Exposition of 1889; the Grand Palais and Petit Palais, built in 1900; the Arc de Triomphe on the Champs-élysée, and Basilica of Sacré-Coeur on the hill of Montmartre. Paris received 38 million visitors in2019, measured by hotel stays, with the largest numbers of foreign visitors coming from the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and China.
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