The City of Paris is the centre and seat of government of the Île-de-France
, or Paris Region, which has an estimated official 2019 population of 12,213,364, or about 18 percent of the population of France.[1] The Paris Region had a GDP
of €709 billion ($
808 billion) in 2017. According to the Economist Intelligence Unit
Worldwide Cost of Living Survey in 2018, Paris was the second most expensive city in the world, after Singapore
, and ahead of Zurich
, Hong Kong
, Oslo
and Geneva
.[4] Another source ranked Paris as most expensive, on a par with Singapore and Hong Kong, in 2018.[5]
