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14  INTRODUCING P ARIS
Harwich Rotterdam
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Putting Paris on the Map Sea Luzarches
NETHERLANDS
Paris, the capital of France, is a city of over Pontoise Paris-
two million people covering 105 sq km Sheerness Montmorency Charles de Gaulle
(40.5 sq miles) of northern France. It is on Flushing Seine Argenteuil Saint-Denis Meaux
the River Seine at the centre of the Ile-de- Ramsgate (Vlissingen) Poissy Aulnay-sous-Bois
France, the region that is home to more Zeebrugge Antwerp Bobigny
than 12 million people, around one-fifth Ostend (Antwerpen, Anvers) See next Nogent-sur-Marne
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of the French population. An important Dover (Oostende) Versailles
European business and cultural centre, it is Gent
(Gand)
the focus of activity in the north of France. Tunnel Dunkirk Antony Créteil
Channel
(Dunkerque)
Calais Paris-Orly
Folkestone Brussels Montgeron Fontenay
Trésigny
(Bruxelles, Brussel) Palaiseau
Western Europe NORWAY Evry
SWEDEN
Boulogne Roubaix BELGIUM Arpajon
Nor th Lille
Sea DENMARK
UNITED Dourdan
KINGDOM Le Touquet
REP. OF
IRELAND NETHERLANDS POLAND Mons Charleroi
GERMANY Lens
BELGIUM CZECH Douai Valenciennes
REPUBLIC
Paris SLOVAKIA
Arras
AUSTRIA HUNGARY Cambrai
Atlantic FRANCE SWITZ. SLOV.
Ocean CROATIA Abbeville GERMANY
BOSNIA SERBIA
ITALY HERZ.
MONTEN.
KOS.
MAC.
ALBANIA
PORTUGAL Amiens LUXEMBOURG
SP AIN GREECE St Quentin Trier
Charleville- Sedan
Oise Mézières Luxembourg
Laon
Le Havre Moselle
Rouen
Beauvais
Compiègne
Reims
Chantilly Verdun
Caen Seine Metz
See inset map above Marne
Chalons-en- Meuse
Champagne
PARIS
Argentan Nancy
Dreux
St-Dizier
Sées
Chartres Seine
FRANCE
Fontainebleau
Troyes
Key Nogent-le-
Rotrou Epinal
Greater Paris Chaumont
Motorway
Major road
Railway 0 kilometres 50
Country border 0 miles 50 Orléans
Auxerre
For additional map symbols see back flap
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