Hauts-de-Seine
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Hauts-de-Seine | |
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![]() Location o Hauts-de-Seine in Fraunce | |
Coordinates: 48°50′N 02°12′E / 48.833°N 2.200°E | |
Kintra | Fraunce |
Region | Île-de-France |
Prefectur | Nanterre |
Subprefecturs | Antony Boulogne- Billancourt |
Govrenment | |
• Preses o the General Cooncil | Patrick Devedjian (UMP) |
Area | |
• Total | 176 km2 (68 sq mi) |
Population (1 Jan 2006 estimate) | |
• Total | 1,536,100 |
• Rank | 5t |
• Density | 8,700/km2 (23,000/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC 1 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC 2 (CEST) |
Depairtment number | 92 |
Arrondissements | 3 |
Cantons | 45 |
Communes | 36 |
^1 French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, an lakes, ponds, an glaciers lairger than 1 km2 |
Hauts-de-Seine (pronounced [o.də.sɛn]; literally "Seine Hichts") is designatit number 92 o the 101 départements in Fraunce. It is pairt o the Île-de-France region, an covers the wastren inner suburbs o Paris. It is sma an densely populatit an contains the modren office, theatre an shoppin complex kent as La Défense.
Geography
[eedit | eedit soorce]Hauts-de-Seine an twa ither sma départements, Seine-Saint-Denis an Val-de-Marne, form a ring aroond Paris, kent as the Petite Couronne (i.e. "little croun").
Admeenistration
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Hauts-de-Seine is made up o three depairtmental arrondissements an 36 communes:
Arrondissement of Antony |
Arrondissement of Boulogne-Billancourt |
Arrondissement of Nanterre |
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History
[eedit | eedit soorce]The depairtment o Hauts-de-Seine wis creatit in 1968, frae pairts o the umwhile départements o Seine an Seine-et-Oise. Its creation reflectit the implementation o a law passed in 1964, an Nanterre haed awready been selectit as the prefectur for the new depairtment early in 1965.
In the 1990s an early 2000s, the Hauts-de-Seine receivit naitional attention as the result o a corruption scandal concernin the misuise o public funds providit for the depairtment's hoosin projects. Implicated wur umwhile meenister an umwhile Preses o the general cooncil o the Hauts-de-Seine, Charles Pasqua, an ither personalities o the RPR pairty. (See corruption scandals in the Paris region.)
Economy
[eedit | eedit soorce]Hauts-de-Seine is Fraunce's seicont walthiest département (ahint Paris) an ane o Europe's richest auries. Its GDP per caipita wis € 62,374 in 2003, accordin tae INSEE offeecial figures.
Demographics
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Freemit airtins
[eedit | eedit soorce]- (in French) Website of the General council Archived 2009-02-07 at the Wayback Machine
- (in French) Prefecture website