Ile-de-France has a population of 11 million, with two million in Paris alone, making it one of the most densely populated areas in the Western world.
Ile-de-France is home to almost half of the country’s immigrant population. In the early 20th century these foreigners were mostly Portuguese, Italian, Polish and Spanish, but since the 1960s most of the newcomers are made up of North Africans from the Maghreb (Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia), Africans from former colonies (including Polynesia and the Caribbean), Asians (from Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia), and, more recently, Eastern Europeans and Russians.
