Hauts-de-Seine ( French pronunciation: [o d(ə) sɛn] ; lit. ' Seine Heights ' ) is a department in the Île-de-France region of France . It covers Paris 's western inner suburbs . It is bordered by Paris , Seine-Saint-Denis and Val-de-Marne to the east, Val-d'Oise to the north, Yvelines to the west and Essonne to the south. With a population of 1,624,357 (as of 2019) and a total area of 176 square kilometres (68 square miles), it has the second highest population density among all departments of France, after Paris. It is the fifth most populous department in France . Its prefecture is Nanterre , but Boulogne-Billancourt , one of its two subprefectures , alongside Antony , has a larger population.
28-564: Hauts-de-Seine is best known for containing the modern office, cinema and shopping complex La Défense , one of Grand Paris 's main economic centres and one of Europe's major business districts. Hauts-de-Seine is one of the wealthiest departments in France; it had the highest GDP per capita in France at €107,800 in 2020. Its inhabitants are called Altoséquanais (masculine) and Altoséquanaises (feminine) in French. From 1790 to 1968, Hauts-de-Seine
56-492: A fusion of Hauts-de-Seine and Yvelines , its western neighbour. Following a similar vote in Yvelines, an établissement public interdépartemental was established. The fusion project was abandoned in 2021, but the cooperation between the two departments continues. 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
84-473: A left-wing majority since the department's inception in 1968. The departmental council is the deliberative organ of the department. The executive is led by the council president, assisted by vice presidents, in charge of various portfolios. Departmental councillors are elected (two per canton ) by the department's inhabitants for six-year terms (no term limits). The president of the Departmental Council
112-614: A population of 50,000 permanent residents and 75,000 students. La Défense is also visited by 8,000,000 tourists each year and houses an open-air museum . La Défense is named after the statue La Défense de Paris by Louis-Ernest Barrias , which was erected in 1883 to commemorate the soldiers who had defended Paris during the Franco-Prussian War . In September 1958, the Public Establishment for Installation of La Défense [ fr ] (EPAD) buildings (of which
140-516: Is Georges Siffredi, elected in 2020. Hauts-de-Seine elected the following members of the National Assembly in the 2024 legislative election : In the Senate , Hauts-de-Seine is represented by: La D%C3%A9fense La Défense ( French: [la de.fɑ̃s] ) is a major business district in France's Paris metropolitan area , 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) west of the city limits . It
168-966: Is a list of the 23 cantons of the Hauts-de-Seine department , in France , following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015: Antony Asnières-sur-Seine Bagneux Boulogne-Billancourt-1 Boulogne-Billancourt-2 Châtenay-Malabry Châtillon Clamart Clichy Colombes-1 Colombes-2 Courbevoie-1 Courbevoie-2 Gennevilliers Issy-les-Moulineaux Levallois-Perret Meudon Montrouge Nanterre-1 Nanterre-2 Neuilly-sur-Seine Rueil-Malmaison Saint-Cloud References [ edit ] ^ Décret n° 2014-256 du 26 février 2014 portant délimitation des cantons dans le département des Hauts-de-Seine v t e Cantons of
196-603: Is located in Île-de-France region's department of Hauts-de-Seine in the communes of Courbevoie , La Garenne-Colombes , Nanterre , and Puteaux . La Défense is Europe's largest purpose-built business district, covering 560 hectares (1,400 acres), for 180,000 daily workers, with 72 glass and steel buildings (of which 20 are completed skyscrapers , out of 24 in the Paris region), and 3,500,000 square metres (38,000,000 sq ft) of office space. Around its Grande Arche and esplanade ("le Parvis"), La Défense contains many of
224-627: 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. Hauts-de-Seine and two other small departments ( Seine-Saint-Denis and Val-de-Marne ) form an inner ring around Paris, known as the Petite Couronne (literal translation: "Little Crown"). Together with the City of Paris, they are included in Greater Paris since 1 January 2016. It
252-538: Is the Eiffel Tower . On 9 September 2008, La Défense celebrated its 50th anniversary with a huge fireworks display. In December 2005, Bernard Bled , CEO and chairman of EPAD (La Defense Management and Development Office) announced an ambitious nine-year development plan called "La Defense 2006–2015" . This important modernisation plan has to give a new dimension to the district and focuses on four main axes: regenerate outdated skyscrapers, allow new buildings, improve
280-528: Is the Smallest Department in France followed by Seine-Saint-Denis and Val-de-Marne . It is slightly smaller than Maldives . [REDACTED] Hauts-de-Seine comprises three departmental arrondissements and 36 communes : Hauts-de-Seine currently has the fewest number of any communes in Metropolitan France . With only 36 communes, not including Paris which has only one commune, this makes
308-515: The Esso Tower was the first) were constructed and began to slowly replace the city's factories, shanties, and even a few farms. The Centre of New Industries and Technologies (CNIT) was built and first used in 1958. These "first generation" skyscrapers were all very similar in appearance, limited to a height of 100 metres (330 ft). In 1966, the Nobel Tower was the first office skyscraper built in
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#1733106376755336-4536: The Hauts-de-Seine department [REDACTED] Antony Asnières-sur-Seine Bagneux Boulogne-Billancourt-1 Boulogne-Billancourt-2 Châtenay-Malabry Châtillon Clamart Clichy Colombes-1 Colombes-2 Courbevoie-1 Courbevoie-2 Gennevilliers Issy-les-Moulineaux Levallois-Perret Meudon Montrouge Nanterre-1 Nanterre-2 Neuilly-sur-Seine Rueil-Malmaison Saint-Cloud v t e Administrative division of Île-de-France (on 1 January 2022) Prefecture: Paris Essonne (91) Prefecture: Évry-Courcouronnes Three arrondissements 21 cantons 194 communes 10 legislative constituencies 10 intercommunalities Hauts-de-Seine (92) Prefecture: Nanterre Three arrondissements 23 cantons 36 communes 13 legislative constituencies 4 EPTs Paris (75) Prefecture: Paris One departmental arrondissement 1 commune 20 municipal arrondissements 80 administrative quarters 18 legislative constituencies 1 intercommunality Seine-et-Marne (77) Prefecture: Melun Five arrondissements 23 cantons 507 communes 11 legislative constituencies 21 intercommunalities Seine-Saint-Denis (93) Prefecture: Bobigny Three arrondissements 21 cantons 40 communes 12 legislative constituencies 4 EPTs Val-de-Marne (94) Prefecture: Créteil Three arrondissements 25 cantons 47 communes 11 legislative constituencies 3 EPTs Val-d'Oise (95) Prefecture: Pontoise Three arrondissements 21 cantons 184 communes 10 legislative constituencies 10 intercommunalities Yvelines (78) Prefecture: Versailles Four arrondissements 21 cantons 259 communes 12 legislative constituencies 10 intercommunalities v t e Cantons of France by department List of cantons of France Mainland France Ain Aisne Allier Alpes-de-Haute-Provence Hautes-Alpes Alpes-Maritimes Ardèche Ardennes Ariège Aube Aude Aveyron Bouches-du-Rhône Calvados Cantal Charente Charente-Maritime Cher Corrèze Corse-du-Sud Haute-Corse Côte-d'Or Côtes-d'Armor Creuse Dordogne Doubs Drôme Eure Eure-et-Loir Finistère Gard Haute-Garonne Gers Gironde Hérault Ille-et-Vilaine Indre Indre-et-Loire Isère Jura Landes Loir-et-Cher Loire Haute-Loire Loire-Atlantique Loiret Lot Lot-et-Garonne Lozère Maine-et-Loire Manche Marne Haute-Marne Mayenne Meurthe-et-Moselle Meuse Morbihan Moselle Nièvre Nord Oise Orne Pas-de-Calais Puy-de-Dôme Pyrénées-Atlantiques Hautes-Pyrénées Pyrénées-Orientales Bas-Rhin Haut-Rhin Rhône Haute-Saône Saône-et-Loire Sarthe Savoie Haute-Savoie Seine-Maritime Seine-et-Marne Yvelines Deux-Sèvres Somme Tarn Tarn-et-Garonne Var Vaucluse Vendée Vienne Haute-Vienne Vosges Yonne Territoire de Belfort Essonne Hauts-de-Seine Seine-Saint-Denis Val-de-Marne Val-d'Oise Overseas France Guadeloupe Martinique Guyane Réunion Mayotte Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cantons_of_the_Hauts-de-Seine_department&oldid=1235650474 " Category : Cantons of Hauts-de-Seine Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
364-655: The Louvre in Central Paris and continues along the Champs-Élysées , well beyond the Arc de Triomphe along the Avenue de la Grande Armée before culminating at La Défense. The district is centred in an orbital motorway straddling the Hauts-de-Seine department communes of Courbevoie , La Garenne-Colombes , Nanterre and Puteaux . La Défense is primarily a business district and hosts
392-546: The Paris Métro was extended to La Défense, which made the area readily accessible to more of the city. On Bastille Day 1990, French electronic composer Jean-Michel Jarre staged an ambitious concert at the site, using the Grande Arche and three of the area's towers as projection screens, and building a pyramidal stage above the road. The free concert, titled Paris la Défense , attracted two million spectators, stretching all
420-593: The Tour First belongs to AXA , constructed in 1974. It is 231 metres (758 ft) high, has 50 floors, and is the highest inhabited building in the Paris area. This title was previously held by the Tour Montparnasse , which was the tallest inhabited building until the Tour First was renovated between 2007 and 2011, bringing it to its current height from a previous 159 metres (522 ft); the tallest structure in Paris
448-483: The French department in Metropolitan France with the fewest number of communes. Hauts-de-Seine is one of France's wealthiest departments and one of Europe's richest areas. Its GDP per capita was €106,800 in 2020, according to Eurostat official figures. In both local and national elections, the department predominantly supports centre-right political candidates, though the 1st and 11th constituencies favor
476-531: The Paris urban area 's tallest high-rises. Westfield Les Quatre Temps , a large shopping mall in La Défense, has 220 stores, 48 restaurants and a 24-screen movie theatre. Paris La Défense Arena , the largest indoor arena in Europe, was inaugurated in 2017. The district is located at the westernmost extremity of the 10-kilometre-long (6.2 mi) Axe historique ("historical axis") of Paris , which starts at
504-463: The area. In 1970, the RER line A railway was opened from La Défense to Étoile . In 1974, a contract for a Défense- Cergy high-speed hovercraft train was signed and soon abandoned. In the early 1970s, in response to great demand, a second generation of buildings began to appear, but the economic crisis in 1973 nearly halted all construction in the area. A third generation of towers began to appear in
532-446: The balance between offices and residential housing, and make the transport of local employees from their homes to La Défense easier. There are three aims: building 150,000 square metres (1,600,000 sq ft) of offices within demolition/rebuilding projects, building 300,000 square metres (3,200,000 sq ft) of offices within new projects, and building 100,000 square metres (1,100,000 sq ft) of housing. In July 2006,
560-661: The early 1980s. The biggest shopping centre in Europe (at the time), the Quatre Temps , was created in 1981. In 1982, the EPAD launched the Tête Défense competition to find a monument to complete the Axe historique , which eventually led to the construction of Grande Arche at the west end of the quarter. During the same period, hotels were constructed, the CNIT was restructured, and in 1992, Line 1 of
588-434: The government confirmed this plan, which has to be carried out around 2015. It is justified by the strong estate pressure, which plays in favour of building new skyscrapers near Paris. Those constructions have the advantage of being more economical than small buildings. But it will have to overcome some difficulties: the French economy faced a short-term slowdown; the government is trying to balance tertiary sector employment in
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#1733106376755616-567: The left. Hauts-de-Seine was the political base of Nicolas Sarkozy , President of the French Republic from 2007 to 2012. He was the mayor of Neuilly-sur-Seine (1983–2002) and president of the Departmental Council of Hauts-de-Seine (2004–2007) before he assumed the office. Sarkozy had succeeded Charles Pasqua as president of the Departmental Council. In the 1990s and early 2000s, Hauts-de-Seine received national media attention as
644-564: The public an elaborate 3D animation film titled La Défense 2016 . Paris La Défense brings together the cluster of Leonardo da Vinci University Center , the IA Institut, a campus of EPITA and 4 business schools : EDC Paris Business School , ESSEC Business School , ICN Graduate Business School and IESEG School of Management It is also home to the European School of Paris-La Défense , an international primary and secondary school that
672-528: The result of a corruption scandal concerning the misuse of public funds provided for the department's housing projects. Implicated were Charles Pasqua, as well as other personalities of the Rally for the Republic (RPR) party. Hauts-de-Seine is governed by a departmental council. Its 46 members are called departmental councillors. The electorate of Hauts-de-Seine usually votes for right-wing parties; there has never been
700-592: The way back to the Arc de Triomphe . This beat Jarre's own previous world record for the largest attendance for a musical concert. After Jean Michel Jarre, German DJ Sash! and the singer La Trec set the video clip for their song Stay at La Défense in 1997. After a stagnation in new development in the mid-1990s, La Défense is once again expanding and is now the largest purpose-built business district in Europe. Major corporations headquartered at La Défense include Neuf Cegetel , Société Générale , TotalEnergies , Aventis , Areva , and Arcelor . The tallest skyscraper,
728-536: The whole region again, because today La Défense concentrates a major part of those jobs; and traffic is already saturated in the district, while it would need huge investments to extend transport infrastructures. It launched high-profile international competitions and/or construction approval of several key 300-to-320-metre (980 to 1,050 ft) tall sustainable development-style skyscrapers such as Tour Signal , Tour Phare , Hermitage Plaza , and Tour Generali . During said December 2005 Press Conference, EPAD released to
756-480: Was accredited as a European School in 2020. Besides the representative architecture, the area also houses an open-air museum with 70 statues and pieces of modern art , including the following works: 48°53′30″N 2°14′27″E / 48.89167°N 2.24083°E / 48.89167; 2.24083 Cantons of the Hauts-de-Seine department The following
784-406: Was part of the former department of Seine . The Hauts-de-Seine department was created in 1968, from parts of the former departments of Seine and Seine-et-Oise . Its creation reflected the implementation of a law passed in 1964; Nanterre had already been selected as the prefecture for the new department early in 1965. In 2016, the Departmental Council of Hauts-de-Seine voted in favour of
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