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Paris is the capital and largest city of France. The River Seine divides the city into two parts: the right bank to the north and the smaller left bank in the south. It is surrounded by a large orbital motorway, the Peripherique. The city is divided into twenty numerically organised districts, the arrondissements. The city proper has about 2,000,000 residents. The Greater Paris metropolitan area has about 14 million residents. It was named after the Gallic Parisii tribe.

Paris is served by two principal airports: Orly and Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle.

Notable places/things in Paris:

• Eiffel Tower - monument
• Louvre - art museum
• Versailles - royal palace and gardens to the southeast of the city
• Arc de Triomphe - war monument
• Musee d'Orsay - art museum housed in a converted 19th century railway station, mainly Impressionists.
• Cathedral of Notre Dame on the Ile de la Cité
• Sacre Coeur - church on the hillock of Montmartre
• The Samaritaine Building - department store from the start of the 20th century
• The Statue of Liberty - A smaller copy of the Statue of Liberty in the harbour of New York City.
• Pompidou Centre - museum of modern art
• Les Halles
• Disneyland Paris - amusement park to the east of the city

Paris was the son of king Priam and was an important character in the Trojan War.

Paris, Texas is a town in central Texas, in the USA.