is paris the city of love or the city of lights
Paris Paris is often referred to as The City of Light (La Ville Lumière),[22] both because of its leading role during the Age of Enlightenment, and more literally because Paris was one of the first European cities to adopt gas street lighting.[citation needed] In the 1860s, the boulevards and streets of Paris were illuminated by 56,000 gas lamps.[23] Since the late 19th century, Paris has also been known as Panam(e) (pronounced [panam]) in French slang.[24]
Paris Paris (French pronunciation: [paʁi] ( listen)) is the capital and most populous city of France, with an administrative-limits area of 105 square kilometres (41 square miles) and a 2015 population of 2,229,621.[2] The city is a commune and department, and the capital-heart of the 12,012-square-kilometre (4,638-square-mile) Île-de-France region (colloquially known as the 'Paris Region'), whose 2016 population of 12,142,802 represents roughly 18 percent of the population of France.[5] Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of Europe's major centres of finance, commerce, fashion, science, and the arts. The Paris Region had a GDP of €649.6 billion (US $763.4 billion) in 2014, accounting for 30.4 percent of the GDP of France.[6] According to official estimates, in 2013-14 the Paris Region had the third-highest GDP in the world and the largest regional GDP in the EU.