General information

La Défense is a major business district for the city of Paris, bordering Neuilly-sur-Seine, west of the city itself. With a population of 20,844[citation needed], it is centered in an oval freeway loop straddling the Hauts-de-Seine département municipalities of Nanterre, Courbevoie and Puteaux. The district is at the westernmost extremity of Paris' 10 km long Historical Axis, which starts at the Louvre in Central Paris and continues along the Champs-Élysées, well beyond the Arc de Triomphe before culminating at La Défense.

 

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Around its 110-metre (360 ft)-high Grande Arche and esplanade ("le Parvis"), the district holds many of the Paris urban area's tallest high-rises. With its 77.5 acres (314,000 m2), its 72 glass-and-steel slick buildings including 14 high-rises above 150 metres (490 ft), its 150,000 daily workers and 3.5 million square metres (37.7 million sq ft) of office space, La Défense is Europe's largest purpose-built business district.

La Défense is named after the iconic statue, La Défense de Paris, which was built in 1884 to commemorate the soldiers who had defended Paris during the Franco-Prussian War. The name of the area sometimes causes confusion with visitors, who occasionally assume it is some kind of military zone or establishment.

Are specifications?

• Divided into 12 sectors

• 400 acres (1.6 km2)

• 3,500,000 square metres (37,700,000 sq ft) of offices

• 1,500 businesses (of which 14 from the national top 20 and 15 from the global top 50)

• 150,000 employees

• 20,000 residents

• 210,000 square metres (2,300,000 sq ft) of shops (including the 120,000 square metres (1,300,000 sq ft) Quatre Temps Shopping Mall, the largest in Continental Europe)

• 2,600 hotel rooms

• 310,000 square metres (3,300,000 sq ft) of flagstone and sidewalk

• 110,000 square metres (1,200,000 sq ft) of greenery

• 60 modern art sculptures and monuments

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