Seine-Saint-Denis – which spans a number of suburbs north of Paris and is often referred to by its official administrative number, 93 – has been synonymous with inequality and suburban poverty ...

The locals in Saint-Denis are called Dionysiennes (female) or Dionysien (male). The town is the biggest of 40 communes that make up the département of Seine-Saint-Denis, which is often just ...

Despite its name, the Paris Olympics will take place mostly in Seine-Saint-Denis on the other side of the "peripherique" ring road that divides the French capital from some of its poorest and most ...

At the age of ten, says Quentin Gesell of the Métropole du Grand Paris, an administrative body, half the children in Seine-Saint-Denis today do not know how to swim. Map: The Economist The ...

Much of it is here, in Seine-Saint-Denis, the department of thickly populated suburbs north and east of the capital. Further on, there is the media village, as well as another pool. “Some of ...

The map locates Seine-Saint-Denis, a suburb northeast of Paris. The challenges are enormous: Unemployment in the region is over 10 percent — and twice that in St.-Denis. Nearly a third of Seine ...

Paris 2024 also wants to leave a legacy in Seine-Saint-Denis. France wants to use the Olympics to revitalise Seine-Saint-Denis and change its image from a crime-ridden area born out of suburban ...

So what was Henry referring to? The commune of Saint-Denis is part of the département (county) of Seine-Saint-Denis, which is one of France's poorest areas. Although within the département ...