Île-de-France | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 07/12/2018

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Île-de-France


00:01:50 1 Etymology
00:02:18 2 History
00:05:35 3 Geography
00:07:39 4 Economy
00:10:42 4.1 Employment
00:12:22 4.2 Agriculture
00:13:06 5 Tourism
00:14:22 6 Regional government and politics
00:15:12 6.1 Holders of the executive office
00:16:22 7 Demographics
00:16:31 7.1 Population density
00:17:02 7.2 Wealth and Poverty
00:17:52 7.3 Immigration
00:18:53 7.4 Petite Couronne
00:19:43 7.5 Grande Couronne
00:20:18 7.6 Historical population
00:20:27 8 International relations
00:20:37 8.1 Twin regions
00:20:58 9 See also



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Île-de-France (; French: [il də fʁɑ̃s] (listen), literally "Island of France"), often called the région parisienne ("Paris Region"),  contains the city of Paris, and is the most populous of the 18 regions of France. It covers 12,012 square kilometres (4,638 square miles), or two percent of the national territory, and has official estimated population of 12,246,234 as of January 1, 2018, or 18.2% of the population of France.  The region accounts for nearly 30 percent of the French Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The region is made up of eight administrative departments;  Paris, Essonne, Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis, Seine-et-Marne, Val-de-Marne, Val-d'Oise and Yvelines.  It was created as the "District of the Paris Region" in 1961, then renamed in 1976 after the historic province of Île-de-France, when its status was aligned with the other French administrative regions created in 1972. Residents are sometimes referred to as Franciliens, an administrative word created in the 1980s.
The GDP of the region in 2016 was €681 billion (or $850 billion USD at market exchange rates). It has the highest per-capita GDP among regions in France and the third-highest of regions in the European Union. In 2018, almost all of the twenty-eight French companies listed in the Fortune Global 500 had their headquarters in the Paris region.Besides the landmarks of Paris, the region has many important historic sites, including the Palace of Versailles and the Palace of Fontainebleau, as well as the most-visited tourist attraction in France, Disneyland Paris.