Claim: Paris is in Europe.

Paris Nord -LRB- or the Gare du Nord , `` North Station '' , -LSB- ɡaʁ dy nɔːʁ -RSB- -RRB- is one of the six large terminus stations of the SNCF mainline network for Paris , France . Near Gare de l'Est in the 10th arrondissement , the Gare du Nord offers connections with several urban transport lines , including Paris Métro , RER and buses . By the number of travellers , at around 214 million per year , it is the busiest railway station in Europe , the 24th busiest in the world and the busiest outside Japan .   The Gare du Nord is the station for trains to Northern France and to international destinations in Belgium , Germany , the Netherlands , and the United Kingdom . The station complex was designed by the French architect Jacques Hittorff and built between 1861 and 1864 .