Esplanade de La Défense station

Esplanade de La Défense is a station on Paris Métro Line 1 on the outskirts of on the border of and . It has an island platform because of limitations on space due it being enclosed in a site originally earmarked for one of the underpasses of the A14 autoroute.
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  • Type: Metro station
  • Description: Paris Métro station
  • Also known as: “Esplanade de La Défense”
  • Wheelchair access: yes

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Tour First and Grande Arche.

Building
Photo: Arthur Weidmann, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is an office skyscraper in the business district of the metropolitan area of . Built in 1974, the tower stands at 231 m tall with 52 floors and is the current second tallest building in France. is situated 140 metres northeast of Esplanade de La Défense station.

Photo: Cristian Bortes, CC BY 2.0.
La de la Défense, originally called La de la Fraternité, is a and building in the business district of and in the commune of , to the west of , France. is situated 1¼ km northwest of Esplanade de La Défense station.

Building
, formerly Tour Gan, is an office skyscraper located in , the high-rise business district situated west of , . It was designed by celebrated American architect Max Abramovitz.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include La Défense and Courbevoie.

Photo: Micdjunior, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a collection of modern high-rise office and residential buildings built according to an evolving central plan on the western outskirts of , beyond the last Parisian loop of the river Seine.

Town
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is a commune located in the department of the region of France. It is a suburb of , 8.2 km from the .

Town
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is a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France. It is located in the heart of the department, 8.7 kilometres from the . , Paris's business district hosting the tallest buildings in the metropolitan area, extends over the northern part of and parts of the neighbouring communes and .

Esplanade de La Défense station

Latitude
48.88805° or 48° 53′ 17″ north
Longitude
2.25008° or 2° 15′ 0″ east
Open location code
8FW4V7Q2+62
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5139949022
Open­Street­Map feature
public_transport=­station
Open­Street­Map feature
railway=­station
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Wiki­data ID
Q1368326
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“Esplanade de La Défense station” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ساحة لا ديفونس”
  • Basque: “Esplanade de la Défense”
  • Catalan: “Estació d’Esplanade de la Défense”
  • Catalan: “Estació de Esplanade de La Défense”
  • Chinese: “拉德芳斯广场”
  • Chinese: “拉德芳斯广场站”
  • Croatian: “Esplanade de La Défense”
  • Czech: “Esplanade de la Défense”
  • Danish: “Esplanade de La Défense (metrostation)”
  • Danish: “Esplanade de La Défense”
  • Dutch: “Esplanade de la Defense”
  • Dutch: “Esplanade de la Défense”
  • Esperanto: “Esplanade de la Défense”
  • Finnish: “Esplanade de la Défensen metroasema”
  • French: “Esplanade de la Défense”
  • French: “Esplanade de La Défense”
  • German: “Esplanade de la Défense”
  • German: “Esplanade de La Défense”
  • Greek: “Εσπλανάντ ντε λα Ντεφάνς”
  • Greek: “Σταθμός Εσπλανάντ ντε λα Ντεφάνς”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Esplanade de la Défense Chhàm”
  • Hungarian: “Esplanade de La Défense metróállomás”
  • Hungarian: “Esplanade de La Défense”
  • Indonesian: “Esplanade de La Défense”
  • Italian: “Esplanade de La Défense”
  • Japanese: “エスプラナード・ド・ラ・デファンス駅”
  • Lombard: “Esplanade de La Défense”
  • Luxembourgish: “Esplanade de la Défense (Paräisser Métro)”
  • Luxembourgish: “Esplanade de la Défense”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Esplanade de la Défense (Paris Metro)”
  • Norwegian: “Esplanade de la Défense”
  • Persian: “اسپلند دو لا دفانس (متروی پاریس)”
  • Persian: “اسپلند دو لا دفانس”
  • Polish: “Esplanade de la Défense (metro w Paryżu)”
  • Polish: “Esplanade de La Défense (metro w Paryżu)”
  • Polish: “Esplanade de la Défense”
  • Polish: “Esplanade de La Défense”
  • Portuguese: “Esplanade de La Défense”
  • Portuguese: “Estação Esplanade de La Défense”
  • Russian: “Эспланад-де-Ла-Дефанс”
  • Russian: “Эсплянад-де-Ля-Дефанс”
  • Slovak: “Esplanade de La Défense (parížske metro)”
  • Slovak: “Esplanade de La Défense”
  • Spanish: “Esplanade de la Defense”
  • Spanish: “Esplanade de la Défense”
  • Spanish: “Estacion de Esplanade de la Defense”
  • Spanish: “Estacion de Esplanade de la Défense”
  • Spanish: “Estación de Esplanade de la Defense”
  • Spanish: “Estación de Esplanade de la Défense”
  • Turkish: “Esplanade de La Défense”
  • Ukrainian: “Еспланад-де-Ла-Дефанс”
  • Ukrainian: “Есплянад де ля Дефанс (станція метро)”
  • Urdu: “ایسپلانیڈ ڈی لا ڈیفنس اسٹیشن”
  • “Esplanade de La Défense”

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