Description
The twenty arrondissements are arranged in the form of a clockwise spiral, starting in the middle of the city, with the first on the Right Bank (north bank) of the Seine. The French cities of Lyon and Marseille are also subdivided in this way.
The list below indicates Right Bank (R) or Left Bank (L) (the islands Île de la Cité and Île Saint-Louis being in the 4e, and partly the 1er, arrondissements):
In French, notably on street signs, the number is often given in Roman numerals. For example., the Eiffel tower is in the VIIe arrondissement while Gare de l'est is in the Xe arrondissement.
| Arrondissement | Name | Area (in km²) | Population (March 1999 census) |
Population (July 2005 estimate) |
Density (2005) (inh. per km²) |
Peak of population |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st R | Louvre | 1.826 | 16,888 | 17,700 | 9,693 | before 1861 |
| 2nd R | Bourse | 0.992 | 19,585 | 20,700 | 20,867 | before 1861 |
| 3rd R | Temple | 1.171 | 34,248 | 35,100 | 29,974 | before 1861 |
| 4th R | Hôtel-de-Ville | 1.601 | 30,675 | 28,600 | 17,864 | before 1861 |
| 5th L | Panthéon | 2.541 | 58,849 | 60,600 | 23,849 | 1911 |
| 6th L | Luxembourg | 2.154 | 44,919 | 45,200 | 20,984 | 1911 |
| 7th L | Palais-Bourbon | 4.088 | 56,985 | 55,400 | 13,552 | 1926 |
| 8th R | Élysée | 3.881 | 39,314 | 38,700 | 9,972 | 1891 |
| 9th R | Opéra | 2.179 | 55,838 | 58,500 | 26,847 | 1901 |
| 10th R | Enclos-St-Laurent | 2.892 | 89,612 | 88,800 | 30,705 | 1881 |
| 11th R | Popincourt | 3.666 | 149,102 | 152,500 | 41,598 | 1911 |
| 12th R | Reuilly | 16.324¹ 6.377² |
136,591 | 138,300 | 21,687² | 1962 |
| 13th L | Gobelins | 7.146 | 171,533 | 181,300 | 25,371 | 20055 |
| 14th L | Observatoire | 5.621 | 132,844 | 134,700 | 23,964 | 1954 |
| 15th L | Vaugirard | 8.502 | 225,362 | 232,400 | 27,335 | 1962 |
| 16th R | Passy | 16.305³ 7.8464 |
161,773 | 149,500 | 19,054 | 1962 |
| 17th R | Batignolles-Monceau | 5.669 | 160,860 | 160,300 | 28,277 | 1954 |
| 18th R | Butte-Montmartre | 6.005 | 184,586 | 188,700 | 31,424 | 1931 |
| 19th R | Buttes-Chaumont | 6.786 | 172,730 | 187,200 | 27,586 | 20055 |
| 20th R | Ménilmontant | 5.984 | 182,952 | 191,800 | 32,052 | 1936 |
Each arrondissement is subdivided administratively into four quartiers. Paris thus has eighty quartiers administratifs, each containing a police station. For a table giving the names of the eighty quartiers, see fr:Quartiers administratifs de Paris.
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