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The Seine (/ s eɪ n, s ɛ n / sayn, sen, [1] French: ⓘ) is a 777-kilometre-long (483 mi) river in northern France. [2] Its drainage basin is in the Paris Basin (a geological relative lowland) covering most of northern France. [3]
The Battles of Barfleur and La Hogue were naval battles fought off Barfleur and Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue in the 17th century. The Normandy coast was the location, during World War II , of the main Allied landings in France ; the unavailability of significant harbours caused the Allies to construct artificial harbours ( Mulberries ) at Arromanches ...
The arrondissements of Paris with the river Seine bisecting the city. The Rive Gauche is the southern part. Rive Gauche' (French pronunciation: [ʁiv ɡoʃ]; Left Bank) is the southern bank of the river Seine in Paris. Here the river flows roughly westward, cutting the city in two parts.
It had an area of 480 km 2 (185 sq. miles), 22% of that area being the City of Paris and 78% being suburbs. It was the only enclaved department in France. It was divided into three arrondissements: Paris, Sceaux and Saint-Denis. For most of the Seine department's existence, its prefect also
The nymph statue at the source of the Seine river, in the Sources de la Seine park. Sources de la Seine , a park owned by the city of Paris which contains the source of the river Seine and the first bridges across the river, including a nymph statue at the source of the river. The park is popular with tourists.
La Rochette is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. It a small, particularly affluent community bordering the Seine river to the east and the historical Fontainebleau forest to the south.
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1990s CIA political map of the Americas in Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection. The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, [3] [4] [5] known initially as India Nova, [6] are a landmass comprising the totality of North America and South America.