Paris and its metropolitan area is one of the most multi-cultural in Europe: at the 2009 census, 22.8% of the total population in the Paris Region was born outside of Metropolitan France, up from 19.7% at the 1999 census.[106]About one third of people who have recently moved to Metropolitan France from foreign countries settle in the Paris Region, about a third of whom in the city of Paris proper.[107] Twenty percent of Paris population are first-generation international immigrants, and 40% of children have at least one immigrant parent.[citation...
