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20th arrondissement

The 20th arrondissement of lies to the east of the centre and represents an old working-class area now in rapid transformation. The main drawing card here for tourists is the Père-Lachaise Cemetery, though, for travellers who are interested in music and culture, this relatively gritty area is probably going to be one of your main night-crawling areas.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Père Lachaise Cemetery and Gambetta station.

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The 20th arrondissement of lies to the east of the centre and represents an old working-class area now in rapid transformation. The main drawing card here for tourists is the , though, for travellers who are interested in music and culture, this relatively gritty area is probably going to be one of your main night-crawling areas.

Metro station
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Gambetta is a station of the Paris Métro. It serves Line 3 and is the southern terminus of Line 3bis. It is located in the 20th arrondissement of Paris.

Park
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The , one of the parks and gardens of the 20th arrondissement of , is situated between the and the .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include 11th arrondissement and Bagnolet.

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The is home to two quite different but equally blossoming centres of Parisian nightlife. The streets just northwest of Place de la Bastille are full of little bars which attract a mix of young suburban Parisians, expats, and foreigners.

Town
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is a commune in the eastern suburbs of , . It is located 5.2 km from the center of Paris.

Town
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is a commune in the northern-eastern suburbs of , . It is located 5.7 km from the centre of Paris.

20th arrondissement

Latitude
48.86504° or 48° 51′ 54″ north
Longitude
2.39893° or 2° 23′ 56″ east
Population
190,000
Open location code
8FW4V98X+2H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 938396405
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Wiki­data ID
Q210720
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“20th arrondissement” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “الدائرة العشرون في باريس”
  • Armenian: “Փարիզի 20-րդ շրջան”
  • Asturian: “XX Distritu de París”
  • Azerbaijani: “Parisin 20-ci dairəsi”
  • Balinese: “Arondisemén ka-20 Paris”
  • Basque: “Parisko 20. barrutia”
  • Belarusian: “20-я акруга Парыжу”
  • Belarusian: “XX акруга Парыжа”
  • Belarusian: “XX акруга Парыжу”
  • Bengali: “প্যারিসের ২০শ আরোঁদিসমঁ”
  • Breton: “20vet arondisamant eus Pariz”
  • Breton: “20vet arondisamant”
  • Catalan: “20è districte de París”
  • Chinese: “Pa-lí 20 khu”
  • Chinese: “巴黎二十区”
  • Chinese: “巴黎二十區”
  • Czech: “20. pařížský obvod”
  • Danish: “20. arrondissement i Paris”
  • Dutch: “20e arrondissement (Parijs)”
  • Dutch: “20e arrondissement van Parijs”
  • Dutch: “20e arrondissement”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “حى پاريس العشرين”
  • Erzya: “Парижэнь XX-це кужо”
  • Esperanto: “20-a arondismento de Parizo”
  • Estonian: “Pariisi 20. ringkond”
  • Estonian: “Pariisi XX ringkond”
  • Finnish: “20. arrondissementti”
  • French: “20e arrondissement de Paris”
  • French: “20e Arrondissement”
  • French: “20ème arrondissement de Paris”
  • French: “75020”
  • French: “Paris 20e”
  • Galician: “20º distrito de París”
  • German: “20. Arrondissement von Paris”
  • German: “20. Arrondissement”
  • Greek: “20ό Δημοτικό Διαμέρισμα Παρισιού”
  • Greek: “20ό δημοτικό διαμέρισμα του Παρισιού”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Pâ-lì Thi-ngi-sṳ̍p-khî”
  • Hebrew: “הרובע העשרים של פריז”
  • Hebrew: “הרובע העשרים”
  • Hungarian: “Párizs 20. kerülete”
  • Indonesian: “Arondisemen ke-20 Paris”
  • Indonesian: “Arondisemen ke-20”
  • Irish: “20ú arrondissement Pháras”
  • Italian: “XX arrondissement di Parigi”
  • Japanese: “20区 (パリ)”
  • Japanese: “20区”
  • Japanese: “パリ20区”
  • Korean: “20구”
  • Korean: “파리 20구”
  • Latin: “Circumdarium XX Lutetiae”
  • Luxembourgish: “20. Arrondissement vu Paräis”
  • Luxembourgish: “20. Arrondissement”
  • Luxembourgish: “arrondissement de Ménilmontant”
  • Maltese: “l-20 arrondissement ta‘ Pariġi”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Pa-lí 20 khu”
  • Northern Frisian: “20. Arrondissement faan Paris”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “20. arrondissement”
  • Norwegian: “20. arrondissement”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “20au arrondiment de París”
  • Persian: “منطقه ۲۰ پاریس”
  • Polish: “20. dzielnica Paryża”
  • Portuguese: “20.º arrondissement de Paris”
  • Portuguese: “20.º distrito de Paris”
  • Romanian: “Arondismentul 20 din Paris”
  • Russian: “XX округ Парижа”
  • Russian: “XX округ”
  • Scots: “20t arrondissement o Paris”
  • Serbian: “20. арондисман Париза”
  • Slovak: “20. obvod”
  • Slovenian: “20. okrožje Pariza”
  • Slovenian: “20. pariško okrožje”
  • Spanish: “20.º Distrito de París”
  • Spanish: “Vigésimo Distrito de París”
  • Spanish: “XX Arrondissement de Paris”
  • Spanish: “XX Arrondissement de París”
  • Spanish: “XX Distrito de Paris”
  • Spanish: “XX distrito de París”
  • Spanish: “XX Distrito de París”
  • Swedish: “20ème arrondissement”
  • Swedish: “Paris 20:e arrondissement”
  • Swedish: “Paris tjugonde arrondissement”
  • Turkish: “20. arrondissement”
  • Ukrainian: “XX округ Парижа”
  • Urdu: “پیرس کا بیسواں آرونڈسمینٹ”
  • Urdu: “پیرس کا بیسواں اراؤنڈڈسمنٹ”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận 20, Paris”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận 20”
  • Welsh: “20fed arrondissement Paris”
  • Western Armenian: “Փարիզի 20-րդ շրջան”
  • Yue Chinese: “巴黎二十區”

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