Saint-Denis

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Saint-Denis

Total population

113,942

Coordinates48.94°, 2.36°

Demographic figures from INSEE. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Saint-Denis is a commune in the northern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 9.4 kilometres from the centre of Paris. Saint-Denis is the most populated suburb of Paris, with a population of 149,077 as of 2023. It is a subprefecture of the department of Seine-Saint-Denis, being the seat of the arrondissement of Saint-Denis. It is also part of the Métropole du Grand Paris.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Nearby places in Île-de-France

• L'Île-Saint-Denis
  0.8 mi away · pop. 8,664
• La Courneuve
  1.6 mi away · pop. 47,160
• Aubervilliers
  1.8 mi away · pop. 90,071
• Dugny
  2.9 mi away · pop. 11,328
• Montmorency
  4.1 mi away · pop. 21,870
• Villiers-le-Bel
  5.1 mi away · pop. 28,836
• Piscop
  5.3 mi away · pop. 706
• Courbevoie
  5.4 mi away · pop. 81,516
• Andilly
  5.5 mi away · pop. 2,697
• Margency
  5.6 mi away · pop. 2,896
• Paris
  5.7 mi away · pop. 2,133,111
• Suresnes
  7.5 mi away · pop. 49,104

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Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Saint-Denis

Saint-Denis, sous la direction de Henri Boucau

Henri Boucau · 1938

Un Village rural en Ile-de-France, Le Mesnil-Saint-Denis

Jean Bégasse · 1967

Ile-de-France

Caisse nationale des monuments historiques et des sites (France) · 1983

Histoires d'Ile de France

Rémy · 1971

Des façades occidentales de Saint-Denis et de Chartres aux portails de Laon

André Lapeyre · 1960

The west portals of Saint-Denis and Chartres

Whitney S. Stoddard · 1952

Memento mori

Dennis Adams · 1994

Répertoire des inventaires

1983

Search results from Open Library.

Recently spotted species

Canada Goose

Branta canadensis

Seen 2026-10-05

Black Swan

Cygnus atratus

Seen 2026-10-05

Southern Green Stink Bug

Nezara viridula

Seen 2026-10-05

Barred Sycamore Pigmy

Stigmella speciosa

Seen 2026-10-05

Asian Tiger Mosquito

Aedes albopictus

Seen 2026-10-05

Brown Marmorated Stink Bug

Halyomorpha halys

Seen 2026-10-05

Small Copper

Lycaena phlaeas

Seen 2026-10-05

Rose-ringed Parakeet

Psittacula krameri

Seen 2026-10-05

European Firebug

Pyrrhocoris apterus

Seen 2026-10-05

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).

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