Hauts-de-Seine

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

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 was largely part of the Seine département until 1968. It and two other small départements, Seine-Saint-Denis and Val-de-Marne, form a ring around Paris, known as the petite couronne.