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Paris is the capital of France. It lies at the heart of a vast fertile plain temperate climate, the Paris Basin, on a bend of the Seine, between the junction of the latter with the Marne and Oise. Its inhabitants are called Parisians. 

Paris is also the capital of the Île-de-France and the only French town that is also a department. As the cities of Lyon and Marseille, it is divided into districts (twenty in number). It has a police commissioner. 

Most populous city long in Europe, it remains the most populous France. According to the census of INSEE, the town of Paris on 1 January 2011 had over 2.2 million inhabitants. The Paris agglomeration has largely developed during the twentieth century, bringing 10.5 million at January 1, 2011, and its urban area (the city and the suburban ring) were approximately 12.3 million inhabitants on 1 January 2011 and is one of the most populated cities in Europe. 

The position of Paris, on an island to cross the great navigable river that is the Seine by a route connecting the north and south of Gaul, in fact since ancient times an important city, capital of the Parisii and a base of an emperor. Its position at the center of the territory controlled by the Frankish kings actually choose as the capital of France instead of Tournai. Placed at the center of a fertile agricultural area with a damp, mild climate, Paris is one of the main cities of France during the tenth century, with royal palaces, wealthy abbeys and a cathedral; during the twelfth century, with the University of Paris, the city became one of the first homes in Europe for education and the arts. Royal power setting in the city, its economic and political importance is growing. Thus at the beginning of the fourteenth century, Paris is one of the most important of the whole Christian world cities. In the seventeenth century it was the capital of a major European political powers in the eighteenth century one of the great cultural centers of Europe and the nineteenth century capital of the arts and pleasures. Paris plays a major political and economic role in the history of Europe during the second millennium.

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