Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France, located on the Seine in the north of the country, in the Île-de-France region. The city proper covers 105.4 square kilometres and had an estimated 2.04 million residents in January 2026, while the metropolitan area had 13.3 million in 2023.

The area was settled by the Parisii, a Gallic tribe. Julius Caesar mentioned the settlement as Lutetia Parisiorum in the mid-1st century BC, and Clovis I made it his capital in 508. Paris hosted the Summer Olympics in 1900, 1924 and 2024, and parts of the city along the Seine have been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1991. Emmanuel Grégoire of the Socialist Party is the mayor, in office since 2026.

Paris is in the news as host of a G7 foreign ministers meeting that began on 9 November 2026 and runs for two days, with the war in Ukraine and the risk of new strikes on Iran on the agenda, Kuwait Times reported. The meeting was planned for Marseille and moved to Paris, and it is one of the last events of France’s G7 presidency. The French finance ministry also hosted a donor conference that day to repair the protective dome over the Chernobyl reactor. The city’s website reports that about 25 metro and RER stations were closed on 5 November at the request of the police prefecture, around a demonstration.

Sources: Wikipedia, City of Paris, Kuwait Times