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.
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").
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.)
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.
Demographics
Immigration
Place of birth of residents of Hauts-de-Seine in 1999
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.