La Défense

railway station in France
Place railway_station Q2661251
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Summary

La Défense is a railway station[1]. It ranks in the top 0.74% of railway_station entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (346 views/month, #137 of 18,574).[2]

Key Facts

  • La Défense is located in Puteaux[3].
  • La Défense is in the country of France[4].
  • La Défense's transport network is recorded as Réseau express régional[5].
  • La Défense's transport network is recorded as Transilien[6].
  • La Défense's instance of is recorded as railway station[7].
  • La Défense's instance of is recorded as underground railway station[8].
  • La Défense's instance of is recorded as S-Bahn station[9].
  • La Défense's instance of is recorded as underground station[10].
  • La Défense's connecting line is recorded as ligne de Paris-Saint-Lazare à Versailles-Rive-Droite[11].
  • La Défense is owned by RATP[12].
  • La Défense is operated by RATP[13].
  • La Défense is named after La Défense[14].
  • La Défense's adjacent station is recorded as Gare de Courbevoie[15].
  • La Défense's adjacent station is recorded as Nanterre-Préfecture[16].
  • La Défense's adjacent station is recorded as Charles-de-Gaulle - Étoile[17].
  • La Défense's adjacent station is recorded as Gare de Puteaux[18].
  • La Défense's adjacent station is recorded as Gare de Puteaux[19].
  • La Défense's adjacent station is recorded as Neuilly – Porte Maillot[20].
  • La Défense's adjacent station is recorded as Gare de Nanterre-La Folie[21].
  • La Défense's Commons category is recorded as Gare de la Défense[22].
  • 1959 marks the founding of La Défense[23].
  • La Défense's coordinate location is recorded as {'latitude': 48.892222, 'longitude': 2.236944}[24].
  • La Défense's interchange station is recorded as La Défense[25].
  • La Défense's interchange station is recorded as La Défense (tramway d'Île-de-France)[26].
  • La Défense's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Gare de la Défense[27].

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Geography

La Défense is in the country of France[4]. It is located in Puteaux[3].

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include railway station[7], underground railway station[8], S-Bahn station[9], and underground station[10].

History and Context

1959 marks the founding of La Défense[23]. It is owned by RATP[12]. It is named after it[14].

Why It Matters

La Défense ranks in the top 0.74% of railway_station entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (346 views/month, #137 of 18,574).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 11 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  8. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 5w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-09-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Continent → —
    Uic station code → 8738221, 8775801, 8720750 +1
    Located in time zone → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/53825|batch #53825]]: redundant value: it should not have a time zone"
  2. 24w ago · Gregoryjourdain · 2026-05-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic's main category → Category:Gare de la Défense
    Connecting line → ligne de Paris-Saint-Lazare à Versailles-Rive-Droite
    Named after → La Défense
    Owned by → —
    + 27 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||cs, hu, vec */"
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