Hauts-de-Seine

Hauts-de-Seine is a département in France. It is part of the Ile-de-France region.

• 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.

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.