La Défense
La Défense is a collection of modern high-rise office and residential buildings built according to an evolving central plan on the western outskirts of Paris, beyond the last Parisian loop of the river Seine.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb with 20,000 residents
- Description: dedicated business district outside of Paris
- Also known as: “La Defense” and “Paris La Defense”
- Address: Nanterre
Places of Interest
Highlights include Grande Arche and ESSEC.
Grande Arche
Photo: Cristian Bortes, CC BY 2.0.
La Grande Arche de la Défense, originally called La Grande Arche de la Fraternité, is a monument and building in the business district of La Défense and in the commune of Puteaux, to the west of Paris, France.
ESSEC
School
Photo: Rdavout, CC BY-SA 2.5.
ESSEC Business School is a French business school and grande école. Its main campus is located in Cergy, with additional campuses in Paris, Rabat, and Singapore.
La Défense–Grande Arche
Metro station
Photo: Chabe01, CC BY-SA 4.0.
La Défense station is a station of the Transilien suburban rail lines, RER commuter rail network, Paris Métro, as well as a stop of the Île-de-France tram network.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Courbevoie and Puteaux.
Courbevoie
Town
Photo: Clicsouris, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Courbevoie is a commune located in the Hauts-de-Seine department of the Île-de-France region of France. It is a suburb of Paris, 8.2 km from the center of Paris.
Puteaux
Town
Photo: mwanasimba, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Puteaux is a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France. It is located in the heart of the Hauts-de-Seine department, 8.7 kilometres from the centre of Paris. La Défense, Paris's business district hosting the tallest buildings in the metropolitan area, spreads over the northern part of Puteaux and parts of the neighbouring communes Courbevoie and Nanterre.
Neuilly-sur-Seine
Town
Photo: Moonik, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Neuilly-sur-Seine, also known simply as Neuilly, is an urban commune in Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France. An immediate western suburb of Paris, it is physically separated from the capital centre only by the Périphérique to its east and the Bois de Boulogne to its south.
La Défense
- Categories: central business district, financial center, tourist attraction, and locality
- Location: Arrondissement of Nanterre, Hauts-de-Seine, Paris, Île-de-France, France, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
48.89101° or 48° 53′ 28″ northLongitude
2.24121° or 2° 14′ 28″ eastPopulation
20,000Elevation
53 metres (174 feet)United Nations Location Code
FR PLDOpen location code
8FW4V6RR+CFOpenStreetMap ID
node 4545578227OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“La Défense” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “La Defense”
- Afrikaans: “La Défense”
- Arabic: “لا ديفونس”
- Aragonese: “La Défense”
- Armenian: “Դեֆանս”
- Azerbaijani: “La Defans”
- Balinese: “La Défense”
- Basque: “La Défense”
- Belarusian: “Дэфанс”
- Bengali: “লা দেফঁস”
- Bosnian: “La Défense”
- Bulgarian: “Дефанс”
- Catalan: “La Défense”
- Cebuano: “La Defense”
- Chinese: “La Défense”
- Chinese: “勒地方士”
- Chinese: “喇地芳士”
- Chinese: “拉德芳斯”
- Croatian: “La Defense”
- Croatian: “La Défense”
- Czech: “La Défense”
- Danish: “La Defense”
- Danish: “La Défense”
- Dutch: “La Defense”
- Dutch: “La Défense”
- Egyptian Arabic: “لا ديفونس”
- Esperanto: “La Défense”
- Estonian: “La Défense”
- Finnish: “La Defence”
- Finnish: “La Defense”
- Finnish: “La Défense”
- French: “Défense”
- French: “La Défense”
- French: “Quartier d’affaires de La Défense”
- French: “Quartier de La Défense”
- French: “Rond-point de Courbevoie”
- Galician: “La Défense”
- Georgian: “დეფანსი”
- Georgian: “ლა დეფანსი”
- Georgian: “ლა-დეფანსი”
- German: “La Defense”
- German: “La Défense”
- Greek: “Λα Ντεφάνς”
- Hakka Chinese: “La Défense”
- Hebrew: “הדפאנס”
- Hebrew: “הדפנס”
- Hebrew: “לה דפאנס”
- Hebrew: “לה דפנס”
- Hindi: “ले डिफॉन्स”
- Hungarian: “La Défense”
- Icelandic: “La Défense”
- Indonesian: “La Defense”
- Indonesian: “La Défense”
- Irish: “La Défense”
- Italian: “La Defense”
- Italian: “La Défense”
- Japanese: “テート・デファンス”
- Japanese: “ラ・デファンス”
- Javanese: “La Défense”
- Korean: “라데팡스”
- Latin: “La Défense”
- Latvian: “La Défense”
- Latvian: “Ladefānsa”
- Limburgan: “La Défense”
- Lithuanian: “La Defense”
- Lithuanian: “La Défense”
- Luxembourgish: “La Défense”
- Malay: “La Defense”
- Malay: “La Défense”
- Malay: “Paris La Defense”
- Marathi: “ला दिफाँ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “La Défense”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “La Défence”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “La Defense”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “La Défense”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “La Dèfense”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “La Défense”
- Norwegian: “La Défense”
- Ossetian: “Дефанс”
- Ossetian: “Ла-Дефанс”
- Persian: “لا دفانس”
- Persian: “محله دفانس”
- Persian: “محله لا دفانس”
- Polish: “La Defense”
- Polish: “La Défense”
- Portuguese: “La Défense”
- Romanian: “La Defense”
- Romanian: “La Défense”
- Russian: “La Défense”
- Russian: “Дефанс”
- Russian: “Ла Дефанс”
- Russian: “Ля Дефанс”
- Scots: “La Défense”
- Serbian: “Дефанс”
- Serbo-Croatian: “La Défense”
- Slovak: “La Défense”
- Slovenian: “La Défense”
- Spanish: “La Defensa”
- Spanish: “La Defense”
- Spanish: “La Défense”
- Swedish: “La Defense”
- Swedish: “La Défense”
- Tagalog: “La Defense”
- Tagalog: “La Défense”
- Thai: “ลาเดฟ็องส์”
- Turkish: “La Défense”
- Twi: “La Défense”
- Ukrainian: “La Défense”
- Ukrainian: “Дефанс”
- Ukrainian: “Ла Дефанс”
- Ukrainian: “Ля Дефанс”
- Urdu: “لا دیفانس”
- Uzbek: “La Défense”
- Vietnamese: “La Défense”
- Vlaams: “La Défense”
- Waray (Philippines): “La Défense”
- Welsh: “La Défense”
- Wu Chinese: “拉德芳斯”
- Yue Chinese: “勒地方士”
- Zulu: “La Défense”
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