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Hauts-de-Seine

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Hauts-de-Seine is a département in France.

  • Number: 92
  • Population: 1,381,169 (1990)
  • Area: 175.6 km2
  • Préfecture: Nanterre
  • Sous-Préfectures: Antony, Boulogne-Billancourt
  • Communes: 36


Hauts-de-Seine is part of the petite couronne, a ring of three départements around Paris (with Seine Saint-Denis and Val de Marne).

It is small and densely populated and contains the modern office, theatre, and shopping complex known as La Défense

File:La Défense.jpg

with its Grande Arche.

It was largely part of the Seine département until 1968.