Hauts de Seine
| Hauts-de-Seine | ||
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| Department | ||
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 Location of Hauts-de-Seine in France |
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| Coordinates: 48°50′N 02°12′E / 48.833°N 2.200°ECoordinates: 48°50′N 02°12′E / 48.833°N 2.200°E | ||
| Country | France | |
| Region | Île-de-France | |
| Prefecture | Nanterre | |
| Subprefectures |
Antony Boulogne- Billancourt |
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| 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 | CET (UTC+1) | |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | |
| 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.
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 January 1, 2016.
Hauts-de-Seine is made up of three departmental arrondissements and 36 communes:
The department of Hauts-de-Seine 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, the 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 general council of the Hauts-de-Seine, Charles Pasqua, and other personalities of the RPR party. (See corruption scandals in the Paris region.)
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