The Paris region - Île-de-France - covers an area of over 12,000 km squared, representing just 2.2 percent of the national territory but home to almost 20 percent of the country's total ...

Paris is split into two halves – the Right and Left banks – by the storied Seine River. The city is further broken into 20 numbered arrondissements (or neighborhoods), which twirl clockwise ...

Paris 2024 sets final map of Olympic venues and waits ... French Olympic medallists arrive with the Olympic flag in Paris - Paris, France ... Lille would be the host city for the basketball ...

In recent years, Paris’s town hall has added hundreds of miles of cycle routes to the city. Some large thoroughfares, such as Rue de Rivoli, have been transformed into cycle superhighways.