What is Banlieue?
A '''banlieue''' in France is the name for a [[suburb]] of a large city, or all its suburbs together. Most of them are outside the official boundary of the city. They are now mostly full of low-income housing projects with large numbers of immigrants and high levels of crime and unemployment.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Burn-Murdoch|first=John|date=2023-07-07|title=French riots show how entrenched inequalities have become|work=Financial Times|url=https://www.ft.com/content/25eda9f0-8bd3-41e1-948c-89cc7c0ec66e|access-date=2023-07-07}}</ref> Not all suburbs are full of poor people, but those are the places people usually mean. There have been several riots in banlieus about police racism. <ref>{{Cite news|date=2005-11-14|title=Timeline: French riots|language=en-GB|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4413964.stm|access-date=2023-07-07}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{France-geo-stub}} [[Category:Geography of France]]