Key figures for Paris

The longest street, the highest point, the number of bridges across the Seine, gardens, trees, fountains, taxis… Original, informative, dizzying, surprising, impressive: all the key figures for Paris!

2,142,800 inhabitants in 2004. It is also 10,539 hectares: a very small part of France which spans over 54,396,500 hectares (543,965 km²), excluding overseas départements and territories
54.74 km in circumference (including the two woods)
48°50’ north latitude, 2°20’ longitude
20 arrondissements

Surface area of the Seine as it crosses Paris: 63 hectares.
Depth: 3.40 metres at the Nationale bridge and 5.70 metres at the Mirabeau bridge.
River speed: approximately 2 km/h.
Temperature: 5.3° to 24.6°, average: 14.1°.
Broadest point in Paris: approximately 200 m (near the Grenelle bridge).
Narrowest point: approximately 30 m (Quai de Montebello, on the small branch of the Seine).
7.6 km of canals cross Paris.
68 bridges and footbridges managed by the canal department
37 bridges on the Seine including 31 road bridges, 4 footbridges, 2 railway bridges and 32 illuminated bridges.

478,000 trees, 120 main tree species, 8,000 trees alongside the outer ring road: Paris is the European capital with the most woodland!
2 woods: Vincennes in the east, Boulogne in the west. Surface area of the Bois de Boulogne: 852 hectares. Surface area of the Bois de Vincennes: 995 hectares
400 parks and gardens

35 km: the length of the ring road.
156 slip roads on the ring road, 6 interchanges.
99 surveillance cameras

The overall budget for Paris (2007): €6.7 billion.
47,000 City Hall employees, 49.4% of whom are women.
60,000 shops: Paris has the highest concentration of local shops in France

7.9 km of tramlines along the inner ring road
1,451 Vélib’ stations (bicycles on a self-service basis) and 20,000 bicycles available at the end of 2007 
300 m: average distance between each Vélib’ station
370 km of cycle paths in Paris
30,000 parking spaces for two-wheeled vehicles
1.365 billion journeys per year in the Paris underground (in 2005)
800,000 parking spaces in inner Paris
15,200 taxis in circulation

263,812 schoolchildren attended state schools in 2006:
- 135,570 in nursery and primary schools
- 128,242 in secondary schools (up to the French Baccalaureat)
138,527 schoolchildren attended private schools in 2006 (including 91,818 in approved private schools)
782,927 children attended recreation centres on Wednesdays (in 2005)
18 million meals per year in school canteens
25,748: the number of places in collective childcare facilities (crèches, day nurseries, etc.) for children under three in March 2006

139 gymnasiums and specialised sports centres
37 stadiums and 37 swimming pools
46 tennis centres
12 parks for skateboarding and rollerskating

6,100 streets in Paris
13,260 crossroads
3,000 km: the total length of pavements
13 km of expressways on the right bank and 3.4 km on the left bank
33.7 km of inner ring road
4.4 km of Grands boulevards (between the Place de la Madeleine and the Place de la Bastille)
9,884 benches, 107 clocks and 1,856 bus shelter
109 Wallace public drinking fountains
 2,417 km sewers
30,000 litter bins

The longest street: Rue de Vaugirard (6th and 15th arrondissements): 4.36 km.
The shortest street: Rue Degrés (2nd arrondissement): 5.75 m.
The narrowest street: Rue du Chat-qui-Pêche (5th arrondissement): 1.80 m.
The broadest street: Avenue Foch (16th arrondissement): 120 m.
The steepest: Rue Gasnier-Guy (20th arrondissement): 17.4%.
Lowest point on a public street: 30.5 m (corner of the Rue Leblanc and Rue Saint-Charles, 15th arrondissement).
Highest point: 148.45 m (40, Rue du Télégraphe, 20th arrondissement).

374 cinema screens
730 film shoots per year and 3,432 days of film shoots
30 million cinema-goers each year in Paris
134 museums, 143 theatres
242 floodlit sites (hotels, churches, statues, fountains, national buildings)
55 municipal libraries

1st tourist destination in the world
27 million tourists per year
60% of hotel customers are foreign, of which 1/3 are American or British
825 congresses organised in 2005 in Paris

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