Paris: one of the world’s most appreciated cities
Paris, a global city
#1 world city
For investments in the next three years,
ahead of Shanghai, London and New York
KPMG, Global Cities Investment Monitor 2021
The world’s #1 city
for investment in R&D
QS Best Student Cities 2019
#1 in the world
for the number of conferences hosted
International Congress and Convention Association, 2019
The world’s #7 student city
QS Best Student Cities 2019
3rd most competitive city in the world
according to the Global Cities Report
Global Cities Report, AT Kearney, 2019
regarded as the world’s #2
most attractive city after New York City
KPMG, 2021
#1 stock market
in the euro zone
Paris Europlace, 2019
Paris region: #1 in Europe (#3 in the world)
for hosting the headquarters of 500 of the world’s largest companies
Paris Europlace, 2019
'Grand Paris' project
An overarching socio-economic urban project,
founded on the construction of a new regional public transport network: the ‘Grand Paris Express’
70,000 new homes planned per year
125 miles of fully automated metro lines and 68 stations
Olympic Games
Paris will host the 2024 Summer Olympics and Paralympics
Paris has a superb array of sports facilities, hotels and transport infrastructure.
15,000 athletes and 20,000 journalists are expected to attend.
36 Olympic competition venues.
World’s first carbon-free Olympic games
4 billion TV viewers
58 foreign cultural centers in Paris
The capital city home to the largest number of foreign cultural centers and institutes in the world
Forum of Foreign Cultural Institutes in Paris (FICEP), 2023
Paris ranked #1 city in the world
in terms of quality of life and accessibility via its communication networks
Global Power City Index (GPCI), 2019
Looking ahead to Brexit, 64% of executives
have said that their companies will review their establishment strategy in the United Kingdom in favor of another European country (+6 points compared with 2018), with 40% of them considering France
Kantar Public – Business France, 2020
A cultural reference in France and abroad
Record attractiveness in 2021 for filming of movies and TV series
Record amount of filmmaking in Paris
+ 7,000 cumulative filming days
110 feature films
64 TV series
Paris City Hall, February 2022