20th arrondissement of Paris
Rue de Ménilmontant in the 20th arrondissement.
Location
Paris and its closest suburbs
Administration
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Paris
Mayor	Michel Charzat
Statistics
Land area¹	5.98 km²
Population² (1999 census)	182,952
-Density (1999)	30,594/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 20 arrondissements of Paris

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The 20^th arrondissement (XX^e 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 holds the second largest Chinatown in Paris. The municipal arrondissement (French: arrondissement municipal, pronounced ), more simply referred to as arrondissement, is a level of administrative division in France lower than the commune. ... City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Tossed by the waves, she does not sink) Paris Eiffel tower as seen from the esplanade du Trocadéro. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (960x784, 123 KB) en: View of Paris and the Centre Georges-Pompidou from Ménilmontant street, XXth arrondissement. ... 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The 20th arrondissement is also internationally known for hosting the Père Lachaise Cemetery where we 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 pop singers (Jim Morrison). Looking down the hill at Père Lachaise. ... The only known photograph of Frédéric Chopin (commonly mistaken for a daguerreotype), believed to have been taken by Louis-Auguste Bisson in 1849. ... Portrait Gioacchino Antonio Rossini (February 29, 1792 – November 13, 1868)[1] was an Italian musical composer who wrote more than 30 operas as well as sacred music and chamber music. ... Oscar Fingal OFlahertie Wills Wilde (October 16, 1854 – November 30, 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, short story writer and Freemason. ... Proust redirects here. ... The garden at Pontoise, painted 1877. ... Self portrait of Jacques-Louis David (1794) Jacques-Louis David (August 30, 1748 – December 29, 1825) was a highly influential French painter in the Neoclassical style. ... For other people named James or Jim Morrison, see James Morrison James Douglas Morrison (8 December 1943 – 3 July 1971) was an American singer, songwriter, writer and poet. ...

Demography

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. The land area of this arrondissement is 5.984 km² (2.31 sq. miles).

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Cityscape

Places of interest

• Parc de Belleville
• Père Lachaise Cemetery

Looking down the hill at Père Lachaise. ...

Important districts

• District of Belleville
• District of Ménilmontant

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