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Arrondissements of Paris

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**Arrondissements of Paris**
XVIII^e			XIX^e		XX^e
XVII^e	IX^e	X^e		XI^e
	VIII^e	II^e	III^e	XII^e
		I^er	IV^e
XVI^e
	VII^e	VI^e	V^e	XIII^e
	XV^e	XIV^e

The city of Paris is divided into 20 municipal arrondissements, more simply referred to as 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.

In references to historical records (where it is important to distinguish between the original 12 arrondissements and the current 20), the old arrondissements are indicated by following the number with the term ancienne (e.g. 2ème ancienne or 7ème anc.).

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

Arrondissement	Area (in km²)	Population (1999 census)	Density (inh. per km²)	Peak of population
I^er arrondissement R	1.826	16,888	9,249	before 1861
II^e arrondissement R	0.992	19,585	19,743	before 1861
III^e arrondissement R	1.171	34,248	29,247	before 1861
IV^e arrondissement R	1.601	30,675	19,160	before 1861
V^e arrondissement L	2.541	58,849	23,160	1911
VI^e arrondissement L	2.154	44,919	20,854	1911
VII^e arrondissement L	4.088	56,985	13,940	1926
VIII^e arrondissement R	3.881	39,314	10,130	1891
IX^e arrondissement R	2.179	55,838	25,626	1901
X^e arrondissement R	2.892	89,612	30,986	1881
XI^e arrondissement R	3.666	149,102	40,672	1911
XII^e arrondissement R	16.324¹ 6.377²	136,591	21,419²	1962
XIII^e arrondissement L	7.146	171,533	24,004	1999
XIV^e arrondissement L	5.621	132,844	23,634	1954
XV^e arrondissement L	8.502	225,362	26,507	1962
XVI^e arrondissement R	16.305³ 7.846⁴	161,773	20,619⁴	1962
XVII^e arrondissement R	5.669	160,860	28,375	1954
XVIII^e arrondissement R	6.005	184,586	30,739	1931
XIX^e arrondissement R	6.786	172,730	25,454	1999
XX^e arrondissement R	5.984	182,952	30,574	1936 </table> 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 [edit] See also Arrondissement, for other uses of the term. [edit] External link Official Paris website (http://www.paris.fr/en)fr:Arrondissements de Paris zh:巴黎区份