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 , beyond the last Parisian loop of the river Seine.
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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 La Défense–Grande Arche.

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La de la Défense, originally called La de la Fraternité, is a and building in the business district of La Défense and in the commune of , to the west of , France.

Metro station
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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.

Metro station
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Esplanade de La Défense is a station on Paris Métro Line 1 on the outskirts of La Défense 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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Courbevoie and Puteaux.

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 . La Défense, 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 .

Town
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, also known simply as Neuilly, is an urban commune in , , . An immediate western suburb of , it is physically separated from the capital centre only by the Périphérique to its east and the to its south.

La Défense

Latitude
48.89101° or 48° 53′ 28″ north
Longitude
2.24121° or 2° 14′ 28″ east
Population
20,000
Elevation
53 metres (174 feet)
United Nations Location Code
FR PLD
Open location code
8FW4V6RR+CF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4545578227
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
8504417
Wiki­data ID
Q987729
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“La Défense” goes by many names.
  • 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 Défense”
  • Czech: “La Défense”
  • Danish: “La Défense”
  • Dutch: “La Défense”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لا ديفونس”
  • Esperanto: “La Défense”
  • Estonian: “La Défense”
  • Finnish: “La Defence”
  • 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 Défense”
  • Greek: “Λα Ντεφάνς”
  • Hakka Chinese: “La Défense”
  • Hebrew: “הדפאנס”
  • Hebrew: “הדפנס”
  • Hebrew: “לה דפאנס”
  • Hebrew: “לה דפנס”
  • Hindi: “ला देफ़ाँस”
  • Hungarian: “La Défense”
  • Icelandic: “La Défense”
  • Indonesian: “La Défense”
  • Irish: “La Défense”
  • 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 Défense”
  • Luxembourgish: “La Défense”
  • Malay: “La Défense”
  • Malay: “Paris La Defense”
  • Marathi: “ला दिफाँ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “La Défense”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “La Défence”
  • 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 Défense”
  • Portuguese: “La Défense”
  • 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 Défense”
  • Swedish: “La Défense”
  • 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”
  • “La Defense”

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