Paris (fra)

Paris

Paris ranks 2nd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind New York City. Memorable people born in Paris include Voltaire, Claude Monet, and Jean-Paul Sartre. Memorable people who died in Paris include Frédéric Chopin, Blaise Pascal, and Voltaire. Paris has been the birth place of many politicians and actors and the death place of many politicians and writers. Paris is located in France.

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km², making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, gastronomy, and science. For its leading role in the arts and sciences, as well as its very early system of street lighting, in the 19th century it became known as "the City of Light". Like London, prior to the Second World War, it was also sometimes called the capital of the world. Read more on Wikipedia