Île de France

[eel duh frahns]

noun

1. a former province in northern France, including Paris and the region around it.

2. former name of Mauritius.

Île-de-France

/ ildəfrɑ̃s /

noun

1. a region of N France, in the Paris Basin: part of the duchy of France in the 10th century

2. a former name (1715–1810) for Mauritius