Hauts-de-Seine

Hauts-de-Seine (; 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 

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").

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 Admeenistration 

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Hauts-de-Seine is made up o three depairtmental arrondissements an 36 communes:

<table>
  Arrondissement ofAntony
  Arrondissement ofBoulogne-Billancourt
  Arrondissement ofNanterre
Antony
Châtenay-Malabry 
Sceaux 
Bourg-la-Reine 
Bagneux
Fontenay-aux-Roses
Le Plessis-Robinson 
Clamart
Châtillon
Montrouge
Malakoff
Vanves
<ol start=13>
<li>Issy-les-Moulineaux
<li>Boulogne-Billancourt 
<li>Meudon
<li>Sèvres
<li>Chaville 
<li>Ville-d'Avray
<li>Saint-Cloud
<li>Marnes-la-Coquette
<li>Vaucresson
<ol start=22>
<li>Garches
<li>Rueil-Malmaison
<li>Suresnes
<li>Puteaux
<li>Nanterre
<li>Colombes
<li>La Garenne-Colombes
<li>Bois-Colombes
<li>Courbevoie
<li>Neuilly-sur-Seine
<li>Levallois-Perret
<li>Clichy
<li>Asnières-sur-Seine
<li>Gennevilliers
<li>Villeneuve-la-Garenne
</tr>
</table>

 History 

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 

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 
 Place o birth o residents 

 Freemit airtins 
  Website of the General council 
  Prefecture website