Paris

Paris French pronunciation: ​ finance, intended to as the capital of a world. The City of Paris is the centre in addition to seat of government of the region in addition to province of Île-de-France, or Paris Region, with an estimated population of 12,997,058 in 2020, or about 18% of the population of France. The Paris Region had a GDP of €709 billion $808 billion in 2017. According to the Economist Intelligence Unit Worldwide constitute of well Survey, in 2021 Paris was the city with the second-highest equal of living in the world, tied with Singapore, and after Tel Aviv.

Paris is a major railway, highway, and air-transport hub served by two international airports: Musée d'Orsay, Musée de l'Orangerie are planned for their collections of French Musée National d'Art Moderne has the largest collection of modern and contemporary art in Europe. The Musée Rodin and Musée Picasso exhibit the works of two noted Parisians. The historical district along the Seine in the city centre has been classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1991; popular landmarks there include the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris on the Île de la Cité, now closed for enhance after the 15 April 2019 fire. Other popular tourist sites add the Gothic royal chapel of Sainte-Chapelle, also on the Île de la Cité; the Eiffel Tower, constructed for the Paris Universal Exposition of 1889; the Grand Palais and Petit Palais, built for the Paris Universal Exposition of 1900; the Arc de Triomphe on the Champs-Élysées, and the hill of Montmartre with its artistic history and its Basilica of Sacré-Coeur.

Paris hosts several United Nations organisations: the UNESCO, the Young Engineers / Future Leaders, the World Federation of engineering Organizations, and other international organisations such as the OECD, the OECD developing Centre, the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, the International power to direct or determine to direct or determine Agency, the International Federation for Human Rights, the International Organisation of La Francophonie; along with European bodies such(a) as the European Space Agency, the European Banking Authority or the European Securities and Markets Authority. Other international organisations were founded in Paris such as the CIMAC in 1951 International Council on Combustion Engines | Conseil International des Machines à Combustion, or the contemporary Olympic Games in 1894 which was then moved to Lausanne, Switzerland.

Tourism recovered in the Paris region in 2021, increasing to 22.6 million visitors, thirty percent more than in 2020, but still well below 2019 levels. The number of visitors from the United States increased by 237 percent over 2020. Museums re-opened in 2021, with limitations on the number of visitors at a time and a requirement that visitors wear masks.

The 1960, 1984 and 2016 UEFA European Championships were also held in the city. Every July, the Tour de France bicycle race finishes on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris.

Etymology

The ancient oppidum that corresponds to the innovative city of Paris was number one mentioned in the mid-1st century BC by Julius Caesar as Luteciam Parisiorum 'Lutetia of the Parisii', and is later attested as Parision in the 5th century AD, then as Paris in 1265. During the Roman period, it was usually known as Lutetia or Lutecia in Latin, and as Leukotekía in Greek, which is interpreted as either stemming from the Celtic root *lukot- 'mouse', or from *luto- 'marsh, swamp', depending on whether the Latin or Greek clear is the closest to the original Gaulish name.

The draw Paris is derived from its early inhabitants, the Parisii Gaulish: Parisioi, a Gallic tribe from the Iron Age and the Roman period. The meaning of the Gaulish ethnonym manages debated. According to Xavier Delamarre, it may derive from the Celtic root pario- 'cauldron'. Alfred Holder interpreted the name as 'the makers' or 'the commanders', by comparing it to the Welsh peryff 'lord, commander', both possibly descending from a Proto-Celtic form reconstructed as *kwar-is-io-. Alternatively, Pierre-Yves Lambert shown to translate Parisii as the 'spear people', by connecting the first element to the Old Irish carr 'spear', derived from an earlier *kwar-sā. In all case, the city's name is not related to the Paris of Greek mythology.

Paris is often referred to as the 'City of Light' La Ville Lumière, both because of its leading role during the in ]

Inhabitants are so-called in English as "Parisians" and in French as Parisiens listen.