<P> French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers> 1 km (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries . </P> <P> Paris (French pronunciation: ​ (paʁi) (listen)) is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of 105 square kilometres (41 square miles) and a population of 2,206,488 . Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of Europe's major centres of finance, commerce, fashion, science, music and painting . The Paris Region had a GDP of € 681 billion (US $850 billion) in 2016, accounting for 31 per cent of the GDP of France . In 2013--2014, the Paris Region had the third - highest GDP in the world and the largest regional GDP in the EU . </P> <P> The City of Paris's administrative limits form an East - West oval centred on the island at its historical heart, the Île de la Cité; this island is near the top of an arc of the river Seine that divides the city into southern Rive Gauche (Left Bank) and northern Rive Droite regions . Paris is the core of a built - up area that extends well beyond its limits: commonly referred to as the agglomération Parisienne, and statistically as a unité urbaine (a measure of urban area), the Paris agglomeration's 2013 population of 10,601,122 made it the largest urban area in the European Union . City - influenced commuter activity reaches well beyond even this in a statistical aire urbaine de Paris (a measure of metropolitan area), that had a 2013 population of 12,405,426, a number one - fifth the population of France, the largest metropolitan area in the Eurozone . </P> <P> The city is a major rail, highway, and air - transport hub served by two international airports: Paris - Charles de Gaulle (the second busiest airport in Europe after London Heathrow Airport with 63.8 million passengers in 2014) and Paris - Orly . Opened in 1900, the city's subway system, the Paris Métro, serves 5.23 million passengers daily, and is the second busiest metro system in Europe after Moscow Metro . Paris's Gare du Nord is one of the ten busiest railway stations in the world, with 262 million passengers in 2015 . </P>

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