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Hauts-de-Seine
| Hauts-de-Seine | |
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| Number | 92 |
| Region | Île-de-France |
| Prefecture | Nanterre |
| Subprefecture | Antony Boulogne-Billancourt |
| Population - Total (1999) - Density | Ranked 6th 1,428,881 8,119 /km² |
| Area | 176 km² |
| Arrondissements | 3 |
| Cantons | 45 |
| Communes | 36 |
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Hauts-de-Seine is a département in France. It is part of the Île-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.
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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. (see corruption scandals in the Paris region).
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
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