20th arrondissement of Paris

20th arrondissement of Paris
—  French municipal arrondissement  —
City hall of Paris 20e arrondissement.
Paris and its closest suburbs
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Paris
Commune	Paris
Government
• Mayor	Frédérique Calandra
Area
• Total	5.98 km2 (2.31 sq mi)
Population (8 March 1999 census)
• Total	182,952
• Estimate (2005)	191,800
• Density	Bad rounding here31,000/km2 (Bad rounding here79,000/sq mi)
^[p] Population sans doubles comptes: single count of residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel).

The 20 arrondissements of Paris
17th 18th 19th   8th 9th 10th 11th 20th 16th 2nd 3rd 1st 4th 12th River Seine   7th 6th 5th 13th 15th 14th

The 20th arrondissement, also known as arrondissement de Ménilmontant, 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. Despite this, the arrondissement elected and was represented by the anti-immigration Front National politician Jean-Marie Le Pen, as a municipal councilor from 1983 to 1989. Today, Belleville contains the second largest Chinatown in Paris.

The 20th arrondissement is also internationally known for the Père Lachaise Cemetery where one can find the burials of many famous composers (such as Frédéric Chopin and Gioacchino Rossini), writers (including Oscar Wilde and Marcel Proust), painters (Camille Pissarro, Jacques-Louis David, and others), and the rock singer Jim Morrison of The Doors.

Geography

The land area of this arrondissement is 5.984 km² (2.31 sq. miles, or 1,479 acres).

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.

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
2009	197,067	32,954

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 former French settlers, such as pieds-noirs in 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. ²An 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.

Cityscape

Places of interest

• Parc de Belleville
• Père Lachaise Cemetery

Important districts

• District of Belleville
• District of Ménilmontant

Media

The humour publication Charlie Hebdo has its head office in the arrondissement.

External links

• 20th arrondissement travel guide from Wikivoyage
• Joining the Locals In Paris’s East – slideshow by The New York Times