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Hauts-de-Seine

Hauts-de-Seine is a département in France. It is part of the Ile-de-France region. It is small and densely populated and contains the modern office, theatre, and shopping complex known as La Défense with its modern Grande Arche.

Hauts-de-Seine
Region Ile-de-France
Number 92
Préfecture Nanterre
Sous-préfectures Antony, Boulogne-Billancourt
Area
 - Total
 - % water
175 km²
xx%
Population
 - Total (1999)
 - Density
1,425,980
8,148/km²

Table of contents
1 Administration
2 History
3 Geography
4 Economy
5 Demographics
6 Culture
7 Miscellaneous topics
8 External links

Administration

History

Hauts-de-Seine was largely part of the Seine département, and to a lesser extent of the Seine-et-Oise département, until 1968.

In the 1990s and early 2000s the Hauts-de-Seine got national attention for a corruption scandal pertaining to the misuse of public funds of the département's housing projects, involving former minister and former president of the conseil général of the Hauts-de-Seine Charles Pasqua and other personalities of the RPR party.

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.

Economy

Demographics

Culture

Miscellaneous topics

External links