La Défense

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La Défense (French: [la defɑ̃s] ) is a major business district situated in the Greater Paris metropolitan area in Île-de-France, at the western end of the French capital's historic axis. The district is home to the headquarters of numerous major French and foreign multinationals, as well as that of the Paris Bourse (Euronext) and European Banking Authority; which represents 3,500,000 square metres (38,000,000 sq ft) of office space.

Served by six high-capacity rail lines (RER A, RER E, Metro Line 1, Transilien lines L and U, and Tramway T2), numerous bus and coach routes, and soon by two new stations on Line 15 of the Grand Paris Express, and possibly by Line 18, which would connect it directly to Orly Airport and the Paris-Saclay research-intensive and business cluster, home to the HEC Paris and École Polytechnique campus, amongst other institutions, La Défense is one of the main transport hubs in the Paris region.