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Île-de-France () (literally Island of France; see the Etymology section), also known as the ''région parisienne'', "Paris Region", is one of the twenty-seven regions of France, and includes the city of Paris. It covers 12,012 square kilometers (4,638 square miles), and has its own regional council and president. It has a population of 12,005,077 as of January 2014, or 18.2 percent of the population of France.〔 The region is made up of eight administrative departments: Paris, Essonne, Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis, Seine-et-Marne, Val-de-Marne, Val-d'Oise and Yvelines. Created as the "District of the Paris Region" in 1961, it was renamed after the historic province of Île-de-France in 1976 when its administrative status was aligned with the other French administrative regions created in 1972. Residents are sometimes referred to as ''"Franciliens"'', an administrative word created in the 1980s. The GDP of the region in 2012 was 612.3 billion Euros, or (US$788 billion at market exchange rates). It has the highest per-capita GDP among regions in France, and the third highest of regions in the European Union. In 2014 thirty companies from the Fortune Global 500 had their headquarters in the Paris Region. == Etymology == Although the modern name "''Île-de-France''" clearly means "Island of France", the etymology is in fact unclear. The "island" may refer to the land between the rivers Oise, Marne and Seine, or it may also have been a reference to the ''Île de la Cité'', in which case "Island of France" was originally a pars pro toto or perhaps a metonym. Yet another possibility is that the term is a corruption of a hypothesized Frankish language term "''Liddle Franke''" meaning "Little France" or "little Frankish land", so the modern reference to an "island" may be coincidental. However, this theory might be anachronistic, since the name "''L'Île-de-France''" (including the definite article) is not documented prior to 1387. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Île-de-France」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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