XIIIe arrondissement Totally Explained

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The 13^th arrondissement (XIII^e arrondissement) is one of the 20 arrondissements of Paris, France. It is located on the Left Bank. It is home to Paris's main Chinatown, which is located in the southeast of the arrondissement in an area that contains many high-rise apartment buildings.
The 13th arrondissement also hosts the Bibliothèque François Mitterrand and the newly built business district of Paris Rive Gauche

Geography

The land area of this arrondissement is 7.146 km² (2.759 sq. miles, or 1,766 acres).

Demographics

The 13th arrondissement is still growing in population, mainly because of an influx of Asian immigrants. In the 1980's, ethnic Chinese refugees from the former French colony of French Indochina (modern-day Vietnam and Cambodia) settled there. The spoken Chinese language of Teochew and Cantonese, as well as other Southeast Asian languages such as Vietnamese amd Khmer, can be heard in the community.
At the last census in 1999, the population was 171,533. The 13th arrondissement is also rapidly growing in business activity, thanks to the new business district of Paris Rive Gauche. In 1999, the arrondissement contained 89,316 jobs, and it's believed to contain more today.

Historical population

Year (of French censuses)	Population	Density (inh. per km²)
1872	69,431	12,342
1954	165,620	23,164
1962	166,709	23,329
1968	158,280	22,149
1975	163,313	22,854
1982	170,818	23,904
1990	171,098	23,943
1999	171,533	24,004
2005 estimate (peak of population)	181,300	25,371

Immigration

Map

Cityscape

Places of interest

Paris's main Chinatown, also locally called la petite Asie ("Little Asia"), is located in the high rise buildings of this arrondissement. We can find in this area :
- Les Olympiades, Super-Italie and various other towers among the tallest in Paris
- Tang Frères and Paristore Asian supermarkets and grocery stores.
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital
Butte-aux-Cailles
Gare d'Austerlitz
Manufacture des Gobelins
University of Chicago Center in Paris
6 Villa des Gobelins - residence of Hồ Chí Minh from July 1919 to July 1921

Streets and squares include

Rue Zadkine

Boulevard de la Zone

Place d'Italie Image:Paris13 city hall.jpg|The city hall of the 13th arrondissement, on a commemoration day. Image:Paris_13th_district_skyline_DSC06928.jpg|A large section of the 13^e arrondissement has been rebuilt in a modern style in the 1970s, with high-rise apartment buildings and shopping center. It now houses an important East Asian community. Image:Paris Bd Vincent Auriol DSC00879.JPG|Bd Vincent Auriol Image:HLM Paris13 dsc00988.jpg|Public housing built in the first half of the 20th century

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