Arrondissement

Table of contents

1 France 1.1 Paris 1.2 Other parts of France 2 Belgium 3 Canada 3.3 Montreal 4 External links

France

Paris

The city of Paris, in France is divided into 20 arrondissements.

On January 1, 1860, new territory was defined to be within the city, and the previous 12 arrondissements were rearranged with the new territory to become the present 20. The arrangement is in the form of a clockwise spiral, starting with the 1st arrondissement in the middle of the city on the right bank (north bank) of the Seine River.

The list below indicates Right Bank (R) or Left Bank (L) bank:

• 1^er arrondissement R
• 2^ème arrondissement R
• 3^ème arrondissement R
• 4^ème arrondissement R
• 5^ème arrondissement L
• 6^ème arrondissement L
• 7^ème arrondissement L
• 8^ème arrondissement R
• 9^ème arrondissement R
• 10^ème arrondissement R
• 11^ème arrondissement R
• 12^ème arrondissement R
• 13^ème arrondissement L
• 14^ème arrondissement L
• 15^ème arrondissement L
• 16^ème arrondissement R
• 17^ème arrondissement R
• 18^ème arrondissement R
• 19^ème arrondissement R
• 20^ème arrondissement R

The French cities Marseille and Lyon are also divided into arrondissements.

Arrondissement is also the name of the subdivisions of the French départements (but the word is barely used in this meaning). The capital city of an arrondissement is the sous-préfecture - see French arrondissements.

See also: Administrative divisions of France

Belgium

In Belgium, the nation is divided into provinces, which are in turn subdivided into arrondissements. Each arrondissement comprised of communes.

Canada

In Canada's province of Québec, the cities of Gatineau, Montréal, Québec City, Saguenay, Longueuil and Sherbrooke are divided into arrondissements (called boroughs in English).

Montreal

Borough	Borough	Borough
Ahuntsic/Cartierville	LaSalle	Rivière-des-Prairies/Pointe-aux-Trembles/Montréal-Est
Anjou	L'Île-Bizard/Sainte-Geneviève/Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue	Rosemont/Petite-Patrie
Beaconsfield/Baie-d'Urfé	Mercier/Hochelaga-Maisonneuve	Saint-Laurent
Côte-des-Neiges/Notre-Dame-de-Grâce	Montréal-Nord	Saint-Léonard
Côte-Saint-Luc/Hampstead/Montréal-Ouest	Mont-Royal	Sud-Ouest (consisting of Point-Saint-Charles, Saint-Henri, Ville-Émard, Côte-Saint-Paul & Petite-Bourgogne)
Dollard-des-Ormeaux/Roxboro	Outremont	Verdun
Dorval/L'Île-Dorval	Pierrefonds/Senneville	Ville-Marie (consisting of Downtown, Old Montreal, & the Gay Village)
Kirkland	Plateau Mont-Royal	Villeray/Saint-Michel/Parc-Extension
Lachine	Pointe-Claire	Westmount
Italics: part of former city of Montreal

External links

• Official Paris website