Hauts-de-Seine

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Hauts-de-Seine

Coat of arms of the Hauts-de-Seine department
Location

Administration
Department number:	92
Region:	Île-de-France
Prefecture:	Nanterre
Subprefectures:	Antony Boulogne- Billancourt
Arrondissements:	3
Cantons:	45
Communes:	36
President of the General Council:	Patrick Devedjian UMP
Statistics
Population	Ranked 6th
-Jan.1, 2006 estimate -March 8, 1999 census	1,531,996 1,428,881
Population density:	8,705/km²
Land area¹:	176 km²

¹ French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, and lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km².

Hauts-de-Seine (92) (literally "Seine Heights") is a département in France. It is part of the Île-de-France region, and forms part of the western suburbs of Paris. It is small and densely populated and contains the modern office, theatre and shopping complex known as La Défense with its Grande Arche.

1 Geography
2 Administration
3 History
4 Economy
5 Demographics
- 5.1 Immigration
6 External links

[edit] 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 (i.e. "inner ring").

[edit] Administration

Hauts-de-Seine is made up of 3 departmental arrondissements and 36 communes:

Arrondissement of Antony	Arrondissement of Boulogne-Billancourt	Arrondissement of Nanterre
Antony Châtenay-Malabry Sceaux Bourg-la-Reine Bagneux Fontenay-aux-Roses Le Plessis-Robinson Clamart Châtillon Montrouge Malakoff Vanves	Issy-les-Moulineaux Boulogne-Billancourt Meudon Sèvres Chaville Ville-d'Avray Saint-Cloud Marnes-la-Coquette Vaucresson	Garches Rueil-Malmaison Suresnes Puteaux Nanterre Colombes La Garenne-Colombes Bois-Colombes Courbevoie Neuilly-sur-Seine Levallois-Perret Clichy Asnières-sur-Seine Gennevilliers Villeneuve-la-Garenne

[edit] History

The department of Hauts-de-Seine was created in 1968, from parts of the former départements of Seine and Seine-et-Oise.

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.)

[edit] Economy

Hauts-de-Seine is France's second wealthiest département (behind Paris) and one of Europe's richest areas. Its GDP per capita was € 62,374 in 2003, according to INSEE official figures.

[edit] Demographics

[edit] Immigration

Place of birth of residents of Hauts-de-Seine in 1999
Born in Metropolitan France	Born outside Metropolitan France
80.6%	19.4%
	Born in Overseas France	Born in foreign countries with French citizenship at birth¹	EU-15 immigrants²	Non-EU-15 immigrants
	1.5%	3.5%	3.8%	10.6%

¹This group is made up largely of pieds-noirs from Northwest Africa, followed by former colonial citizens who had French citizenship at birth (such as was often the case for the native elite in French colonies), and to a lesser extent foreign-born children of French expatriates. Note that a foreign country is understood as a country not part of France as of 1999, so a person born for example in 1950 in Algeria, when Algeria was an integral part of France, is nonetheless listed as a person born in a foreign country in French statistics.
² An immigrant is a person born in a foreign country not having French citizenship at birth. Note that an immigrant may have acquired French citizenship since moving to France, but 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.