Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Hauts-de-Seine is a département in France. It is part of the Ile-de-France region. It is small and densely populated and contains the modern office, theatre, and shopping complex known as La Défense with its modern Grande Arche. Hauts-de-Seine Region Ile-de-France Number 92 Préfecture Nanterre Sous-préfectures Antony, Boulogne-Billancourt Area  - Total  - % water 175 km² xx% Population  - Total (1999)  - Density 1,425,980 8,148/km² Table of contents 1 Administration 2 History 3 Geography 4 Economy 5 Demographics 6 Culture 7 Miscellaneous topics 8 External links Administration Communes: 36, including Neuilly-sur-Seine, Sèvres History Hauts-de-Seine was largely part of the Seine département, and to a lesser extent of the Seine-et-Oise département, until 1968. In the 1990s and early 2000s the Hauts-de-Seine got national attention for a corruption scandal pertaining to the misuse of public funds of the département's housing projects, involving former minister and former president of the conseil général of the Hauts-de-Seine Charles Pasqua and other personalities of the RPR party. Geography Hauts-de-Seine and two other small départements, Seine-Saint-Denis and Val-de-Marne, form a ring around Paris, known as the petite couronne. Economy Demographics Culture Miscellaneous topics External links Conseil Général website This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.