Arrondissements of Paris

The twenty arrondissements are arranged in the form of a clockwise spiral (often likened to a snail shell),[4] starting from the middle of the city, with the first on the Right Bank (north bank) of the Seine.

In French, notably on street signs, the number is often given in Roman numerals. For example, the Eiffel Tower belongs to the VII^e arrondissement while Gare de l'Est is in the X^e arrondissement. In daily speech, people use only the ordinal number corresponding to the arrondissement, e.g. "Elle habite dans le sixième", "She lives in the 6th (arrondissement)".

Population density map of Paris in 2017.

Arrondissements

Arrondissement (R for Right Bank, L for Left Bank)	Name	Area (km2)	Population (2017 estimate)	Density (2017) (inhabitants per km2)	Peak of population	Mayor (2020-2026)
1st(Ier) R Administratively part of Paris Centre	Louvre	5.59 km2 (2.16 sq mi)	100,196	17,924	before 1861	Ariel Weil (PS)
2nd (IIe) R Administratively part of Paris Centre	Bourse				before 1861
3rd (IIIe) R Administratively part of Paris Centre	Temple				before 1861
4th (IVe) R Administratively part of Paris Centre	Hôtel-de-Ville				before 1861
5th (Ve) L	Panthéon	2.541 km2 (0.981 sq mi)	59,631	23,477	1911	Florence Berthout (DVD)
6th (VIe) L	Luxembourg	2.154 km2 (0.832 sq mi)	41,976	19,524	1911	Jean-Pierre Lecoq (LR)
7th (VIIe) L	Palais-Bourbon	4.088 km2 (1.578 sq mi)	52,193	12,761	1926	Rachida Dati (LR)
8th (VIIIe) R	Élysée	3.881 km2 (1.498 sq mi)	37,368	9,631	1891	Jeanne d'Hauteserre (LR)
9th (IXe) R	Opéra	2.179 km2 (0.841 sq mi)	60,071	27,556	1901	Delphine Bürkli (DVD)
10th (Xe) R	Entrepôt	2.892 km2 (1.117 sq mi)	90,836	31,431	1881	Alexandra Cordebard (PS)
11th (XIe) R	Popincourt	3.666 km2 (1.415 sq mi)	147,470	40,183	1911	François Vauglin (PS)
12th (XIIe) R	Reuilly	16.324 km2 (6.303 sq mi)¹ 6.377 km2 (2.462 sq mi)²	141,287	8,657¹ 21,729²	1962	Emmanuelle Pierre-Marie (The Greens)
13th (XIIIe) L	Gobelins	7.146 km2 (2.759 sq mi)	183,399	25,650	20055	Jérôme Coumet (PS)
14th (XIVe) L	Observatoire	5.621 km2 (2.170 sq mi)	136,941	24,280	1954	Carine Petit (Gt.s)
15th (XVe) L	Vaugirard	8.502 km2 (3.283 sq mi)	235,178	27,733	1962	Philippe Goujon (LR)
16th (XVIe) R	Passy	16.305 km2 (6.295 sq mi)³ 7.846 km2 (3.029 sq mi)4	149,500	9,169³ 19,0544	1962	Francis Szpiner (LR)
17th (XVIIe) R	Batignolles-Monceau	5.669 km2 (2.189 sq mi)	168,737	29,760	1954	Geoffroy Boulard (LR)
18th (XVIIIe) R	Butte-Montmartre	6.005 km2 (2.319 sq mi)	196,131	32,634	1931	Éric Lejoindre (PS)
19th (XIXe) R	Buttes-Chaumont	6.786 km2 (2.620 sq mi)	188,066	27,697	20055	François Dagnaud (PS)
20th (XXe) R	Ménilmontant	5.984 km2 (2.310 sq mi)	191,800	32,052	1936	Éric Pliez (DVG)

Notes:
1. With the Bois de Vincennes
2. Without the Bois de Vincennes
3. With the Bois de Boulogne
4. Without the Bois de Boulogne
5. 2005 is the year of the most recent official estimate; population of these arrondissements may still be growing

Each arrondissement is subdivided administratively into four quartiers. Paris thus has 80 quartiers administratifs, each containing a police station. For a table giving the names of the eighty quartiers, see Quarters of Paris.

Map showing the twelve original arrondissements. The surrounding grey area shows the size of Paris after the expansion in 1860.

On 11 October 1795, Paris was divided into twelve arrondissements. They were numbered from west to east, with the numbers 1–9 situated on the Right Bank of the Seine and the numbers 10–12 on the Left Bank. Each arrondissement was subdivided into four quartiers, which corresponded to the 48 original districts created in 1790.

Emperor Napoleon III and the Prefect of the Seine Baron Haussmann developed a plan to incorporate several of the surrounding communes into the Paris jurisdiction in the late 1850s. Parliament passed the necessary legislation in 1859, and the expansion took effect when the law was promulgated on 3 November 1859 (though city taxes were not extended to the new neighborhoods until 1 July 1860).[5] The previous twelve arrondissements were reorganized from twelve arrondissements into twenty. When Haussmann released his plan for the new boundaries and numbering system, residents of Passy objected because it placed them in the new thirteenth arrondissement, and at the time the expression "they were married in the thirteenth" was "a jocular way of referring to non-marital cohabitation". The mayor of Passy, Jean-Frédéric Possoz, devised the idea of a numbering the arrondissements in a spiral pattern beginning with the first centered on the imperial palaces, which put Passy in the sixteenth.[6]

In historical records, when it is important to distinguish between two systems, the original arrondissements are indicated by adding the term ancienne ("former" or "old"), for example, 2ème ancienne or 7ème anc.

Both a city and a département (French national administrative subdivision), Paris has since 1982 and the PLM law (Paris-Lyon-Marseille law) both a city council and 20 arrondissement councils. The PLM law also set limits to the prerogatives of the mayor of Paris, who has to deal with the powers granted to the prefect of police on security issues. The 20 arrondissement councils (conseils d'arrondissement) are similar in operation to the municipal council (conseil municipal) but with very few powers.[7] Its members are elected at municipal elections in the same way as in municipalities with more than 3,500 inhabitants. The arrondissement council is made up of 2/3 arrondissement councilors and 1/3 of city councilors, elected in the arrondissement but who also sit on the Paris city council. At its first meeting after the elections, each arrondissement council elects its mayor.[7]

• 1st arrondissement of Paris, 2nd arrondissement of Paris, 3rd arrondissement of Paris, 4th arrondissement of Paris : Paris - Centre

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  Louvre Museum.
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  Notre-Dame de Paris.
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  Galerie Colbert.
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  Île de la Cité.
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  Paris Police Prefecture.
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  Paris City Hall.
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  Place des Vosges.
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  The Marais.

• 5th arrondissement of Paris, 6th arrondissement of Paris, 7th arrondissement of Paris : Paris - Left Bank

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  Panthéon.
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  National Museum of Natural History.
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  University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne.
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  Rue Mouffetard.
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  Boulevard Saint-Germain.
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  Sénat.
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  Left Bank
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  French National Assembly
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  Tour Eiffel.

• 8th arrondissement of Paris, 9th arrondissement of Paris, 10th arrondissement of Paris, 11th arrondissement of Paris : Paris - Right Bank

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  Place de la Concorde.
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  Élysée Palace.
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  Champs-Élysées.
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  Boulevard Haussmann.
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  Palais Garnier.
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  Gare du Nord.
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  Canal Saint-Martin
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  Place de la République
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  Bastille District.

• 12th arrondissement of Paris, 13th arrondissement of Paris : Paris - East

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  Gare de Lyon.
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  Opéra Bastille.
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  Tree-lined walkway.
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  Bois de Vincennes.
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  AccorHotels Arena.
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  Bibliothèque nationale de France.
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  Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital.
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  Quartier Asiatique.
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  Paris Rive Gauche.

• 14th arrondissement of Paris, 15th arrondissement of Paris : Paris - South

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  Paris Observatory.
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  Place Denfert-Rochereau.
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  Cité internationale universitaire de Paris.
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  Parc Montsouris.
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  Front de Seine.
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  Tour Montparnasse.
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  Pasteur Institute.
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  Villa Santos-Dumont.
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  Parc André Citroën.

• 16th arrondissement of Paris, 17th arrondissement of Paris : Paris - West

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  Île aux Cygnes
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  Trocadéro
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  Bois de Boulogne
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  Stade Roland Garros
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  Jardin d'Acclimatation
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  Avenue de la Grande Armée.
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  Parc Monceau

• 18th arrondissement of Paris, 19th arrondissement of Paris, 20th arrondissement of Paris : Paris - North

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  Moulin Rouge.
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  Sacré-Cœur.
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  Montmartre.
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  Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie.
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  Parc des Buttes Chaumont.
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  Place des Fêtes.
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  Bassin de la Villette.
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  Belleville.
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  Père Lachaise Cemetery.

• Arrondissement, for other uses of the term.
• Historical quarters of Paris
• Paris, je t'aime, film composed of five-minute sequences on each arrondissement
• Administration of Paris

• Carmona, Michel (2002). Haussmann: His Life and Times and the Making of Modern Paris. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee. p. 516. ISBN 9781566634274.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

• Official Paris website
• Website showing location, numbering conventions, and general info for arrondissements