Until the 5th century CE, the city was known as Argantorati (in the nominative, Argantorate in the locative), a Celtic Gaulish name Latinised first as Argentorate (with Gaulish locative ending, as appearing on the first Roman milestones in the 1st century CE) and then as Argentoratum (with regular Latin nominative ending, in later Latin texts). 10.1 Strasbourg Public Transportation Statistics.8.1 Universities and tertiary education.The port of Strasbourg is the second-largest on the Rhine after Duisburg in Germany, and the second-largest river port in France after Paris. Įconomically, Strasbourg is an important centre of manufacturing and engineering, as well as a hub of road, rail, and river transportation. It is also home to the largest Islamic place of worship in France, the Strasbourg Grand Mosque. Strasbourg is immersed in Franco-German culture and although violently disputed throughout history, has been a cultural bridge between France and Germany for centuries, especially through the University of Strasbourg, currently the second-largest in France, and the coexistence of Catholic and Protestant culture. Strasbourg's historic city centre, the Grande Île (Grand Island), was classified a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1988, with the newer " Neustadt" being added to the site in 2017. It is the second city in France in terms of international congress and symposia, after Paris.
The city is the seat of many non-European international institutions such as the Central Commission for Navigation on the Rhine and the International Institute of Human Rights.
Together with Basel ( Bank for International Settlements), Geneva ( United Nations), The Hague ( International Court of Justice) and New York City (United Nations world headquarters), Strasbourg is among the few cities in the world that is not a state capital that hosts international organisations of the first order. An organization separate from the European Union, the Council of Europe (with its European Court of Human Rights, its European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines most commonly known in French as "Pharmacopée Européenne", and its European Audiovisual Observatory) is also located in the city. Strasbourg is one of the de facto four main capitals of the European Union (alongside Brussels, Luxembourg and Frankfurt), as it is the seat of several European institutions, such as the European Parliament, the Eurocorps and the European Ombudsman of the European Union.
The transnational Eurodistrict Strasbourg-Ortenau had a population of 958,421 inhabitants. Strasbourg's metropolitan area had a population of 790,087 in 2017, making it the ninth-largest metro area in France and home to 13% of the Grand Est region's inhabitants. In 2019, the city proper had 287,228 inhabitants and both the Eurométropole de Strasbourg (Greater Strasbourg) and the Arrondissement of Strasbourg had 505,272 inhabitants. Located at the border with Germany in the historic region of Alsace, it is the prefecture of the Bas-Rhin department. Strasbourg ( UK: / ˈ s t r æ z b ɜːr ɡ/, US: / ˈ s t r ɑː s b ʊər ɡ, ˈ s t r ɑː z-, - b ɜːr ɡ/, French: ( listen) German: Straßburg ( listen) Bas Rhin Alsatian: Strossburi ( listen), Haut Rhin Alsatian: Strossburig ( listen)) is the prefecture and largest city of the Grand Est region of eastern France and the official seat of the European Parliament.
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