| 20th arrondissement of Paris |
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| Rue de Ménilmontant in the 20th arrondissement. |
| Location |
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| Paris and its closest suburbs |
| Administration |
| Region | Île-de-France |
| Department | Paris |
| Mayor | Frédérique Calandra |
| Statistics |
| Land area¹ | 5.98 km² |
Population²
(July 1, 2005 estimate)
(March 8, 1999 census) |
191,800
182,952 |
| -Density (2005) | 32,052/km² |
| ¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq. mi. or 247 acres) and river estuaries. |
| ² Population sans doubles comptes: single count of residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel). |
The 20th arrondissement (XXe arrondissement), located on the Right Bank, is one of the 20 arrondissements of Paris, France. It contains the cosmopolitan districts of Ménilmontant and Belleville which have welcomed many successive waves of immigration since the middle of the 19th century. Today, Belleville contains the second largest Chinatown in Paris.
The 20th arrondissement is also internationally known for hosting the Père Lachaise Cemetery where one can find the burials of many famous composers (such as Chopin and Rossini), writers (including Oscar Wilde and Marcel Proust), painters (Pissarro, Jacques-Louis David and others) and even rock singers (Jim Morrison).
[edit] Geography
The land area of this arrondissement is 5.984 km2 (2.31 sq. miles, or 1,479 acres).
[edit] Demographics
The population of Paris's 20th arrondissement peaked in 1936, when it had 208,115 inhabitants. Today it remains very dense in population and business activity with 182,952 inhabitants and 54,786 jobs as of the last census, in 1999.
[edit] Historical population
Year
(of French censuses) | Population | Density
(inh. per km2) |
| 1872 | 92,772 | 15,503 |
| 1936 (peak of population) | 208,115 | 34,779 |
| 1954 | 200,208 | 33,457 |
| 1962 | 199,310 | 33,307 |
| 1968 | 188,921 | 31,571 |
| 1975 | 175,795 | 29,378 |
| 1982 | 171,971 | 28,738 |
| 1990 | 184,478 | 30,829 |
| 1999 | 182,952 | 30,574 |
| 2005 estimate | 191,800 | 32,052 |
[edit] Immigration
Place of birth of residents of the 20th arrondissement in 1999 | Born in Metropolitan France | Born outside Metropolitan France | | 74.7% | 25.3% | Born in
Overseas France | Born in foreign countries with French citizenship at birth¹ | EU-15 immigrants² | Non-EU-15 immigrants | | 1.9% | 4.0% | 3.1% | 16.3% | ¹This group is made up largely of pieds-noirs from Northwest Africa, followed by former colonial citizens who had French citizenship at birth (such as was often the case for the native elite in French colonies), and to a lesser extent foreign-born children of French expatriates. Note that a foreign country is understood as a country not part of France as of 1999, so a person born for example in 1950 in Algeria, when Algeria was an integral part of France, is nonetheless listed as a person born in a foreign country in French statistics.
² An immigrant is a person born in a foreign country not having French citizenship at birth. Note that an immigrant may have acquired French citizenship since moving to France, but is still considered an immigrant in French statistics. On the other hand, persons born in France with foreign citizenship (the children of immigrants) are not listed as immigrants. | |
[edit] Cityscape
[edit] Places of interest
[edit] Important districts
 Communes in the metropolitan area of Paris | | | Population over 2 million | | | | Population over 75,000 | | | | Population over 50,000 | | | | Population over 25,000 | | | | Population under 25,000 | 1,459 other communes | |
Coordinates: 48°51′54.22″N 2°23′56.58″E / 48.8650611°N 2.39905°E / 48.8650611; 2.39905
