Paris is the capital and largest city of France, with over 2 million residents within its city limits and over 12 million in the metropolitan area, making it one of the largest cities in Europe. As a global center of finance, culture, fashion, and technology, Paris has attracted visitors to its world-famous museums and architectural landmarks for centuries. The city has an extremely efficient transportation network serving its residents and visitors, including one of the busiest metro systems in the world.

1. Paris (French pronunciation: [paʁi] (audio speaker iconlisten)) is the capital and most populous
town of France, with an envisioned population of two,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of
greater than a hundred and five rectangular kilometres (forty one square miles),[4] making it the
34th maximum densely populated city inside the global in 2020.[5] Since the seventeenth
century, Paris has been one of the international's foremost centres of finance, diplomacy,
commerce, style, gastronomy, technology, and humanities. The City of Paris is the centre and
seat of presidency of the region and province of Île-de-France, or Paris Region, with an
estimated population of 12,997,058 in 2020,[6] or about 18 percent of the populace of France,[7]
making it in 2020 the most important metropolitan region in Europe,[8] and 14th biggest within
the global in 2015.[9] The Paris Region had a GDP of €709 billion ($808 billion) in 2017.[10]
According to the Economist Intelligence Unit Worldwide Cost of Living Survey in 2018, Paris
was the second one maximum luxurious metropolis in the international, after Singapore and
beforehand of Zürich, Hong Kong, Oslo, and Geneva.[11] Another supply ranked Paris as most
high priced, on par with Singapore and Hong Kong, in 2018.[12][13] Paris is a main railway,
motorway, and air-shipping hub served with the aid of worldwide airports: Paris–Charles de
Gaulle (the second-busiest airport in Europe) and Paris–Orly.[14][15] Opened in 1900, the
metropolis's subway device, the Paris Métro, serves 5.23 million passengers every day;[16] it's
far the second-busiest metro device in Europe after the Moscow Metro. Gare du Nord is the
24th-busiest railway station in the world, however the busiest located outdoor Japan, with 262
million passengers in 2015.[17] Paris is especially recognised for its museums and architectural
landmarks: the Louvre received 2.Eight million visitors in 2021, in spite of the lengthy museum
closings due to the COVID-19 virus.[18] The Musée d'Orsay, Musée Marmottan Monet and
Musée de l'Orangerie are referred to for their collections of French Impressionist artwork. The
Pompidou Centre Musée National d'Art Moderne has the biggest collection of cutting-edge and
present day art in Europe. The Musée Rodin and Musée Picasso show off the works of noted
Parisians.