Arrondissement (Paris)

The French capital Paris has been subdivided into 20 city ​​districts since 1860 , the arrondissements (German district , literally: rounding, rounding off ).

Administrative structure

Map of the Paris arrondissements

The arrondissements are numbered from 1 to 20, often shortened with Roman numerals. The sequence of numbers begins on the right bank of the Seine in the center and continues in a spiral to the outside. The spiral begins with four arrondissements in the historic city center , the area around the Louvre , the Palais-Royal and the Forum des Halles , and ends after two and a half clockwise turns in the east of the city. The spiral arrangement of the arrondissement is popularly called l'escargot de Paris (the Parisian snail or Parisian snail shell).

Arrondissements with distinctive points of the city

Each arrondissement is headed by a mayor ( Maire d'Arrondissement) who resides in the mayor's office in his district.

Each arrondissement itself consists of four quarters (city quarters), which are numbered from 1 to 80: Quarters 1 to 4 belong to the 1st arrondissement, quarters 5 to 8 to the 2nd arrondissement and so on.

See also : List of Paris arrondissements and quarters

Area and population of the arrondissements

Arrondissement	Surname	Area (ha)	population			Population density / km²
			1872	1954	1999	1872	1954	1999
I .	Louvre	183	74,286	38,926	16,888	40,593	21,271	9,228
II .	Bourse	99	73,578	43,857	19,585	74,321	44,300	19,783
III .	Temple	117	89,687	65,312	34,248	76,656	55,822	29,272
IV .	Hotel de Ville	160	95.003	66,621	30,675	59,377	41,638	19,172
V .	Pantheon	254	96,689	106,443	58,849	38,067	41,907	23,169
VI .	Luxembourg	215	90.288	88,200	44,919	41,994	41,023	20,893
VII .	Bourbon Palace	409	78,553	104,412	56,985	19.206	25,529	13,933
VIII .	Elysee	388	75,796	80,827	39,314	19,535	20,832	10.132
IX .	Opéra	218	103,767	102.287	55,838	47,600	46,921	25,614
X .	Entrepôt	289	135.392	129,179	89,612	46,848	44,699	31,008
XI .	Popincourt	367	167.393	200,440	149.102	45,611	54,616	40,627
XII .	Reuilly	637	87,678	158,437	136,591	13,764	24,872	21,443
XIII .	Tapestries	715	69,431	165.620	171,533	9,711	23.164	23,991
XIV .	Observatoire	564	69,611	181.414	132,844	12,342	32,166	23,554
XV .	Vaugirard	848	75,449	250.124	225,362	8,897	29,496	26,576
XVI .	Passy	791	43,332	214.042	161,773	5,478	27,060	20,452
XVII .	Batignolles-Monceau	567	101,804	231.987	160,860	17,955	40,915	28,370
XVIII .	Buttes-Montmartre	601	138.109	266.825	184,586	22,980	44,397	30,713
XIX .	Buttes-Chaumont	679	93.174	155.028	172.730	13,722	22,832	25,439
XX .	Ménilmontant	598	92,772	200.208	182,952	15,514	33,480	30,594
intra muros		8,699	1,851,792	2,850,189	2,125,246	21,287	32,765	24,431
Bois de Boulogne		846	(to Arrondissement XVI , Passy )
Bois de Vincennes		995	(to Arrondissement XII , Reuilly )
Paris		10,540	1,851,792	2,850,189	2,125,246	17,569	27,042	20.164

Trivia

The frequently encountered anecdote that the French anatomist and surgeon Claude Couinaud based the numbering of the liver segments on the spiral numbering of the Parisian arrondissements has meanwhile been unmasked as a modern legend .

Footnotes

1. ↑ 7072 - Loi sur l'extension des limites de Paris (du 16 June 1859) , Bulletin des lois de l'Empire français , Volume XIV, XI. Series, No. 738, pp. 747-751
2. ↑ Jean-Nicolas Vauthey, Giuseppe Zimmitti, Junichi Shindoh: From Couinaud to molecular biology: the seven virtues of hepato-pancreato-biliary surgery . In: HPB . tape 14 , no. 8 , p. 493-499 , doi : 10.1111 / j.1477-2574.2012.00502.x , PMID 22762396 , PMC 3406345 (free full text) - ( elsevier.com ).