Hauts-de-Seine
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Hauts-de-Seine | |
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 Coat of arms | |
 Location of Hauts-de-Seine in France | |
| Coordinates: 48°50′N 02°12′E / 48.833°N 2.200°E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Île-de-France |
| Prefecture | Nanterre |
| Subprefectures | Antony Boulogne- Billancourt |
| Government | |
| • President of the General Council | Patrick Devedjian (UMP) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 176 km2 (68 sq mi) |
| Population (2013) | |
| • Total | 1,591,403 |
| • Rank | 5th |
| • Density | 9,000/km2 (23,000/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Department number | 92 |
| Arrondissements | 3 |
| Cantons | 23 |
| Communes | 36 |
| ^1 French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, and lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km2 | |
Hauts-de-Seine (French: [o d(ə) sɛn]; literally Seine Heights) is a department of France. It is part of the Métropole du Grand Paris and of the Île-de-France region, and covers the western inner suburbs of Paris. It is small and densely populated and contains the modern office, theatre, and shopping complex known as La Défense.
Geography
Hauts-de-Seine and two other small départements, Seine-Saint-Denis and Val-de-Marne, form a ring around Paris, known as the Petite Couronne (i.e. "little crown") and are together with the City of Paris included in the Greater Paris since 1 January 2016.
Administration
Hauts-de-Seine is made up of three departmental arrondissements and 36 communes:
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Government
Hauts-de-Seine has a general council of which members are called general councillors. The general council is the deliberative organ of the department. The general councilors are elected by the inhabitants of the departement for a 6-years term. The general council is ruled by a president.
See Hauts-de-Seine General Council.
History
The Hauts-de-Seine department was created in 1968, from parts of the former départements of Seine and Seine-et-Oise. Its creation reflected the implementation of a law passed in 1964, and Nanterre had already been selected as the prefecture for the new department early in 1965.
In the 1990s and early 2000s, Hauts-de-Seine received national attention as the result of a corruption scandal concerning the misuse of public funds provided for the department's housing projects. Implicated were former minister and former president of the Hauts-de-Seine General Council, Charles Pasqua, and other personalities of the RPR party. (See corruption scandals in the Paris region.)
Economy
Hauts-de-Seine is France's second wealthiest département (behind Paris) and one of Europe's richest areas. Its GDP per capita was €62,374 in 2003, according to INSEE official figures.
Politics
Hauts-de-Seine is the political base of Nicolas Sarkozy, President of the Republic from 2007 to 2012. He was previously the mayor of Neuilly-sur-Seine in the department.
Charles Pasqua was also based in Hauts-de-Seine.[1]
Demographics
Place of birth of residents
| Born in metropolitan France | Born outside metropolitan France | |||
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| 80.6% | 19.4% | |||
| Born in overseas France |
Born in foreign countries with French citizenship at birth1 | EU-15 immigrants2 | Non-EU-15 immigrants | |
| 1.5% | 3.5% | 3.8% | 10.6% | |
| 1 This group is made up largely of former French settlers, such as Pieds-Noirs in Northwest Africa, followed by former colonial citizens who had French citizenship at birth (such as was often the case for the native elite in French colonies), as well as to a lesser extent foreign-born children of French expatriates. A foreign country is understood as a country not part of France in 1999, so a person born for example in 1950 in Algeria, when Algeria was an integral part of France, is nonetheless listed as a person born in a foreign country in French statistics. 2 An immigrant is a person born in a foreign country not having French citizenship at birth. An immigrant may have acquired French citizenship since moving to France, but is still considered an immigrant in French statistics. On the other hand, persons born in France with foreign citizenship (the children of immigrants) are not listed as immigrants. | ||||
Tourism
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Empress Joséphine's bedroom at the Château de Malmaison -
Paris seen from the Parc de Saint-Cloud -
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