Local time
Mon, 9:44 PM GMT+2Europe/ParisCityCapital
Paris
48.87° N, 2.33° E
- Population
- 9,904,000
- Natural Earth
- Population rank
- 1 of 59
- Rank by Natural Earth population among the 59 cities of France in Terratlasia that have a population figure. Terratlasia does not list every city of France, so this is not a national ranking.
- Founded
- 300
- Year of founding from Wikidata (P571). Only the year is known, not the day; a city whose sources give more than one year shows no row.
- Area
- 105 km²
- Total area from Wikidata (P2046). Where two statements differ by less than half a percent the smaller is shown; a larger disagreement (land area against total area, say) shows no row.
- Administrative unit
- Grand Paris
- The administrative unit Wikidata files this city under (P131), one level below the state. The state itself is shown on its own row and is not repeated here; a city filed under more than three units shows no row at all.
- Named after
- Parisii
- Wikidata · P138 · checked 2026-09-20
- Time zone
- Europe/Paris
Traveler brief
Only what this atlas can source — no hours, prices, visas or safety advice.
Practical bearings for Paris, from the same records as the rest of this page.
No places in Paris have been recorded yet. The map and the country page still carry its context.
Overview
Name
The name derives from the "Parisii," a Celtic tribe that inhabited the area from the 3rd century BCE; their settlement became the Roman town of "Lutetia Parisiorum," then "Parisium," and finally "Paris".
Source: CIA World Factbook · 2026-02-01 · text generated from this source, approved by a person
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