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    Paris is the capital and largest city of France, located in northern central France. It has a population of over 2 million people and has been a major center of finance, commerce, fashion and the arts since the 17th century. Paris is home to many famous landmarks and museums, notably the Louvre which was the most visited art museum in the world in 2018. It is a major transportation hub with two international airports and the second busiest metro system in Europe. Paris receives over 23 million visitors per year from around the world, making it one of the most visited cities globally.

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    Paris is the capital and largest city of France, located in northern central France. It has a population of over 2 million people and has been a major center of finance, commerce, fashion and the arts since the 17th century. Paris is home to many famous landmarks and museums, notably the Louvre which was the most visited art museum in the world in 2018. It is a major transportation hub with two international airports and the second busiest metro system in Europe. Paris receives over 23 million visitors per year from around the world, making it one of the most visited cities globally.

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    Paris is the capital and largest city of France, located in northern central France. It has a population of over 2 million people and has been a major center of finance, commerce, fashion and the arts since the 17th century. Paris is home to many famous landmarks and museums, notably the Louvre which was the most visited art museum in the world in 2018. It is a major transportation hub with two international airports and the second busiest metro system in Europe. Paris receives over 23 million visitors per year from around the world, making it one of the most visited cities globally.

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    Paris is the capital and largest city of France, located in northern central France. It has a population of over 2 million people and has been a major center of finance, commerce, fashion and the arts since the 17th century. Paris is home to many famous landmarks and museums, notably the Louvre which was the most visited art museum in the world in 2018. It is a major transportation hub with two international airports and the second busiest metro system in Europe. Paris receives over 23 million visitors per year from around the world, making it one of the most visited cities globally.

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    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 an official estimated population of 2,140,526
    residents as of 1 January 2019.[1] Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of Europe's major
    centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, science, and the arts. The City of Paris is the
    centre and seat of government of the Île-de-France, or Paris Region, which has an estimated official
    2019 population of 12,213,364, or about 18 percent of the population of France. [1] The Paris Region
    had a GDP of €709 billion ($808 billion) in 2017.[3] According to the Economist Intelligence
    Unit Worldwide Cost of Living Survey in 2018, Paris was the second most expensive city in the
    world, after Singapore, and ahead of Zürich, Hong Kong, Oslo and Geneva.[4] Another source ranked
    Paris as most expensive, on a par with Singapore and Hong Kong, in 2018. [5]
    The city is a major railway, highway, and air-transport hub served by two international airports: Paris-
    Charles de Gaulle (the second busiest airport in Europe) and Paris-Orly.[6][7] Opened in 1900, the
    city's subway system, the Paris Métro, serves 5.23 million passengers daily,[8] and is the second
    busiest metro system in Europe after Moscow Metro. Gare du Nord is the 24th busiest railway
    station in the world, but the first located outside Japan, with 262 million passengers in 2015. [9]
    Paris is especially known for its museums and architectural landmarks: the Louvre was the most
    visited art museum in the world in 2018, with 10.2 million visitors.[10][11] The Musée d'Orsay, Musée
    Marmottan Monet, and Musée de l'Orangerie are noted for their collections of
    French Impressionist art, the Pompidou Centre Musée National d'Art Moderne has the largest
    collection of modern and contemporary art in Europe, and the Musée Rodin and Musée
    Picasso exhibit the works of the two noted Parisians. The historical district along the Seine in the city
    centre is classified as a UNESCO Heritage Site, and popular landmarks in the city centre include
    the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris and the Gothic royal chapel of Sainte-Chapelle, both 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 Basilica of Sacré-Coeur on the hill of Montmartre.
    Paris received 23 million visitors in 2017, measured by hotel stays, with the largest numbers of
    foreign visitors coming from the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and China. [12][13] It was
    ranked as the third most visited travel destination in the world in 2017, after Bangkok and London.[14]
    The football club Paris Saint-Germain and the rugby union club Stade Français are based in Paris.
    The 80,000-seat Stade de France, built for the 1998 FIFA World Cup, is located just north of Paris in
    the neighbouring commune of Saint-Denis. Paris hosts the annual French Open Grand
    Slam tennis tournament on the red clay of Roland Garros. Paris hosted the Olympic Games
    in 1900, 1924 and will host the 2024 Summer Olympics. The 1938 and 1998 FIFA World Cups,
    the 2007 Rugby World Cup, and the 1960, 1984 and 2016 UEFA European Championships were
    also held in the city and, every July, the Tour de France bicycle race finishes there.

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